Wasif Afzal, Professor
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)
Comparative Analysis of Text Mining and Clustering Techniques for Assessing Functional Dependency between Manual Test Cases (Apr 2025) Sahar Tahvili, Leo Hatvani, Michael Felderer , Francisco Gomes de Oliveira Neto , Wasif Afzal, Robert Feldt Software Quality Journal (Springer) (SQJ)
Automated Test Generation: Taxonomy and Tool Applications (Apr 2025) Eduard Paul Enoiu, Nasir Mehmood Minhas, Michael Felderer , Wasif Afzal Fundamentals of Software Engineering 2025 (FSEN'25)
An Empirical Investigation of Requirements Engineering and Testing Utilizing EARS Notation in PLC Programs (Mar 2025) Mikael Ebrahimi Salari, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Wasif Afzal, Cristina Seceleanu Springer Nature Computer Science (SNCS)
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)
Daniel Brahneborg (former)
Daniel Flemström (former)
Muhammad Nouman Zafar
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Damir Bilic
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