Wasif Afzal completed his M.Sc., Licentiate and Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden in 2007, 2009 and 2011 respectively. He was a post doctoral researcher at BTH between September 2011 and March 2012. From September 2011 to August 2013 he was also an assistant professor in software engineering at Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Wasif Afzal likes to do empirical research within software engineering in general and within software verification and validation in particular. Some keywords that describe his interests are (not exhaustive): software testing and quality assurance, prediction and estimation in software engineering, application of artificial intelligence techniques in software engineering (including search-based software engineering), decision-making based on software analytics, software metrics and evidential assessment of software engineering literature. Here is his Google Scholar profile.
Gaps in Software Testing Education: A Survey of Academic Courses in Sweden (May 2025) Ayodele Barrett, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Wasif Afzal IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T25)
Automated Test Generation: Taxonomy and Tool Applications (Apr 2025) Eduard Paul Enoiu, Nasir Mehmood Minhas, Michael Felderer , Wasif Afzal 11th International Conference on Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN 2025)
Optimizing Model-based Generated Tests: Leveraging Machine Learning for Test Reduction (Jul 2024) Muhammad Nouman Zafar, Wasif Afzal, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Zulqarnain Haider, Inderjeet Singh The 20th Workshop on Advances in Model Based Testing (A-MOST 2024)
Can serious gaming tactics bolster spear-phishing and phishing resilience? : Securing the human hacking in Information Security (Jun 2024) Affan Yasin , Rubia Fatima , Zheng JiangBin , Wasif Afzal, Shahid Raza Information and Software Technology Volume 170 (IST-2024-1)
Behind the Bait: Delving into PhishTank's hidden data (Feb 2024) Affan Yasin , Rubia Fatima , Javed Ali Khan , Wasif Afzal Data in Brief Volume 52, February 2024 (DiB-2024-1)
Automating Test Generation of Industrial Control Software through a PLC-to-Python Translation Framework and Pynguin (Feb 2024) Mikael Ebrahimi Salari, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Cristina Seceleanu, Wasif Afzal 30th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2023)
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