Significant documentation is been formed with almost all
software projects, irrespective of application. Software
project documentation is a perspective whose purpose is to
communicate information about the software system. For
research purpose documentations of final year students of
Masters level course have been considered for the research
purpose. These documentations consist of the artefacts like
requirement analysis, technical environment, database
design, structural and object oriented modelling techniques,
screen layouts and testing techniques along with test case
and data. The results were compiled from 505 large software
project documentations developed during a period of
academic years from 2001-2002 to 2011-2012. The
duration of these software projects was six months. Errors
from these software project documentations were found and
these errors were classified into 11 broad error categories.
After compilation of results and studying various artefacts in
software project documentations 103 software attributes
were recognized. These software attributes were classified
into two broad classes (a) Quantifiable attributes and (b)
Non-quantifiable attributes. Out of 103 software attributes,
39 were quantifiable attributes and 64 non- quantifiable
attributes. Subsequent to categorization, weights were
assigned to these quantifiable software attributes only for
which a survey was conducted. The basic goal of assigning
weights to these quantifiable attributes was to score software
project documentation. Further, software template is been
proposed for evaluating and scoring student‟s software
projects documentation.