Dr.Bestoun S. Ahmed

Dr. Bestoun S. Ahmed

May 11, 2018, Our paper “Testing of Smart TV Applications: Key Ingredients, Challenges and Proposed Solutions”, accepted for publication, FTC2018 conference, Springer.
May 4, 2018: Our paper, “Internet of Things: Current Challenges in the Quality Assurance and Testing Methods“, Accepted for publication 9th iCatse Conference on Information Science and Applications, 2018, Macau, China. Download Draft
May 4, 2018, Our Chapter, “Fuzzy Adaptive Tuning of a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Variable-Strength Combinatorial Test Suite Generation“, Published in Swarm Intelligence Book, Volume 3: Applications, 2018, IET.
April 29, 2018: Our paper, “Hybrid flower pollination algorithm strategies for t-way test suite generation“, PLoS One, 13(5), 2018, published [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.8]. Download
Our paper “Tapir: Automation Support of Exploratory Testing Using Model Reconstruction of the System Under Test”, Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Reliability. The preprint can be download here.
February 27, 2018: My blog post “Tips and advice when you review a scientific paper”, published on ASOC page, Elsevier. Find it out here.

My research activities span the following directions:

Software Testing: Mutation testing, Regression testing, Interaction testing, GUI interaction testing, Automated testing, Smart TV app testing.
Test Generation algorithms: Combinatorial interaction tools, statistical test generation.
Quality Assurance of IoT Systems: Quality aspects of IoT systems.
Software Engineering: Software module clustering, Cloud computing, Mobile app development.
Search-based Software Engineering (SBSE): Combinatorial interaction testing, Application of SBSE
Quality Assurance: Quality aspects of IoT systems.
Software Engineering: Software module clustering, Cloud Computing, Mobile App testing.
Applied Soft Computing: Optimizations in software engineering, control parameter optimization, Combinatorial Optimization and its applications