9.11. Report Elements

This section provides some additional guidance on different aspects of the report. Given the wide range of projects, this is not a definitive list. Instead, it is a prompt for you to think about what would be useful to discuss in the different areas of the report.

The Report Templates include some notes too. The following sections are intended to be complementary to those notes.

• Title Page
  • Version History
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Contents and Lists
  • Table of Contents
  • Lists
• Background and Objectives
  • Background
  • Analysis
  • Process
• Requirements
  • Describing the requirements
  • Use Case Diagrams
  • Research questions
• Design
  • Diagrams
  • Describing behaviour
  • User interface
• Experiment Methods
• Implementation
  • Plan-driven and agile approaches
• Testing
  • Automated testing
  • Test tables
  • User testing
• Evaluation
• Code Extracts
• References
• Appendices
  • Use of Third-Party Code, Libraries and Generative AI
  • Other appendices
  • Supporting evidence