About Me

I am just trying to get a PhD ... :)

Research Interests

• Software Testing

• Model-based Testing
• Evolutionary Testing
  

Publications

International Journals

1. N. Walkinshaw, K. Bogdanov, S. Ali, M. Holcombe, “Automated discovery of state transitions and their functions in source code”, Forthcoming in Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability, 2008.

2. S. Ali, L. C. Briand, M. Jaffar-ur Rehman, H. Asghar, Z. Zafar, A. Nadeem, "A State-based Approach to Integration Testing for Object-Oriented Programs", Information and Software Technology 49(11-12):1087-1106 , 2007

Technical Reports

1. S. Ali, L.C. Briand, H. Hemmati, R.K. Panesar-Walawege, “A Systematic Review of the Application and Empirical Investigation of Evolutionary Testing”, Simula Technical Report Simula.SE.293, 2008

2. S. Ali, K. Bogdanov, N. Walkinshaw, “A Comparative Study of Methods for Dynamic Reverse-Engineering of State Models”, Technical Report CS-07-16, Deptartment of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, UK, October 2007

3. N. Walkinshaw, S. Ali, K. Bogdanov, M. Holcombe, S. Salahuddin, “Modeling and testing software with x-machines: A case study”, Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, UK, 2007.

4. S. Ali , M. Jaffar-ur-Rehman, L. C. Briand, H. Asghar, Z. Zafar, A. Nadeem, "A State-based Approach to Integration Testing of Object-Oriented Programs", Technical Report, TR-SCE-05-08, Carleton University, Canada, May 2005

International Conferences

2. Syed Asad Ali Naqvi, Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Uzair Khan, Muhammad Jaffar ur Rehman , "An Evaluation of Aspect Oriented Testing Techniques", , IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies ICET, 2005.