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RÉSUMÉ

Vahid Garousi, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Address Department of Computer Engineering

Hacettepe University

Beytepe, Ankara 06640

TURKEY

Email vahid.garousi AT hacettepe.edu.tr

Home page web.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/~vahid

Telephone (office) +90 (312) 297‐7500 (x. 128)

Skype vahid_garousi

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 EMPLOYMENT ................................................................................................................................................................ 3 2 EDUCATION ................................................................................................................................................................... 3 3 RESEARCH .................................................................................................................................................................... 4

3.1 Areas of Interest and Expertise ............................................................................................................................ 4 3.2 Summary of citations and impact ......................................................................................................................... 4 3.3 Publications .......................................................................................................................................................... 4

3.3.1 Edited Proceedings ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 3.3.2 Book Chapters ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 3.3.3 Publications in International Journals ................................................................................................................................... 5 3.3.4 Publications in International Conference Proceedings ......................................................................................................... 8 3.3.5 Publications in International Workshops ............................................................................................................................. 11 3.3.6 Publications in National Conference Proceedings .............................................................................................................. 12 3.3.7 Publications in International Magazines ............................................................................................................................. 13 3.3.8 Publications in National Journals, etc. ................................................................................................................................ 13 3.3.9 Published Reviews .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 3.3.10 Abstracts/Posters .............................................................................................................................................................. 13 3.3.11 Theses .............................................................................................................................................................................. 14 3.3.12 Publications in the area of Social Sciences ...................................................................................................................... 14

3.4 Supervision ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 3.4.1 Current PhD Students ......................................................................................................................................................... 14 3.4.2 Current MSc Students ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 3.4.3 Previously-supervised Students.......................................................................................................................................... 15

3.4.3.1 Previously-supervised Research Associates/Post-Doctoral Fellows .......................................................................... 15 3.4.3.2 Previously-supervised PhD Students .......................................................................................................................... 15 3.4.3.3 Previously-supervised MSc Students .......................................................................................................................... 16 3.4.3.4 Previously-supervised Course-based MSc and MEng Students ................................................................................. 17 3.4.3.5 Previously-supervised Undergraduate Student Researchers ..................................................................................... 18 3.4.3.6 Previously-supervised Undergraduate 4th-Year Capstone Projects ............................................................................ 18 3.4.3.7 Previously-supervised Internship (co-op) Students ..................................................................................................... 20

3.5 Grants ................................................................................................................................................................ 21 3.5.1 Research Grants ................................................................................................................................................................. 21 3.5.2 Other Grants ....................................................................................................................................................................... 23

3.6 Awards and Distinctions ..................................................................................................................................... 23 4 ACADEMIC SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES ............................................................................................................................ 23

4.1 University-Level Service Activities ...................................................................................................................... 23 4.2 Faculty-Level Service Activities .......................................................................................................................... 24 4.3 Department-Level Service Activities ................................................................................................................... 24 4.4 Membership in editorial boards of scientific journals .......................................................................................... 26 4.5 Conference-related Activities ............................................................................................................................. 26 4.6 Journal-related Activities .................................................................................................................................... 29


4.7 Reviewer for Grant Proposals ............................................................................................................................ 30 4.8 Invited Talks/Workshops/Panels ........................................................................................................................ 31 4.9 Membership in Graduate Student Thesis Committees ....................................................................................... 33

4.9.1 Examiner ............................................................................................................................................................................. 33 4.9.2 Neutral Chair ....................................................................................................................................................................... 36 4.9.3 Supervisory Committee ....................................................................................................................................................... 37

4.10 Membership in Undergraduate Student Project Committees ........................................................................... 37 4.11 Research-related Software Design and Development ..................................................................................... 37 4.12 Media Appearances and New Releases .......................................................................................................... 38 4.13 Other External Service and Activities ............................................................................................................... 38

5 INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES AND EXPERTISE ......................................................................................................................... 39 5.1 Consulting Projects ............................................................................................................................................ 39 5.2 Industrial Partners/Collaborations (past and present) ........................................................................................ 39 5.3 Invited Talks/Workshops/Panels ........................................................................................................................ 39 5.4 Executive Positions in Professional Associations ............................................................................................... 40 5.5 Membership in Professional Associations .......................................................................................................... 40

6 TEACHING AND TRAINING SERVICES .............................................................................................................................. 41 6.1 Teaching in Hacettepe University (2015-) .......................................................................................................... 41

6.1.1 Undergraduate Level .......................................................................................................................................................... 41 6.1.2 Graduate Level ................................................................................................................................................................... 41

6.2 Teaching in Atilim University (2013-2014) .......................................................................................................... 41 6.2.1 Undergraduate Level .......................................................................................................................................................... 41 6.2.2 Graduate Level ................................................................................................................................................................... 41

6.3 Teaching in the Middle East Technical University (METU) (2013) ..................................................................... 41 6.3.1 Graduate Level ................................................................................................................................................................... 41

6.4 Teaching in the University of Calgary (2006-2012) ............................................................................................ 41 6.4.1 Undergraduate Level .......................................................................................................................................................... 41 6.4.2 Graduate Level ................................................................................................................................................................... 41

6.5 Teaching Certificates ......................................................................................................................................... 42 6.6 Corporate Training ............................................................................................................................................. 42

7 OTHER ........................................................................................................................................................................ 42 7.1 Public Service .................................................................................................................................................... 42 7.2 Citizenship.......................................................................................................................................................... 42 7.3 Spoken Languages ............................................................................................................................................ 42


1 EMPLOYMENT Feb. 2015– present Associate Professor

Department of Computer Engineering

Hacettepe University

Beytepe, Ankara, Turkey

Jan. 2014– Feb. 2015 Associate Professor

System and Software Quality Engineering Research Group (SySoQual)

Department of Software Engineering

Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

January– Dec. 2013 Visiting Associate Professor

Graduate School of Informatics

Middle East Technical University (METU)

Ankara, Turkey

Sept. 2006 – May 2014 Associate Professor of Software Engineering (tenured)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Team leader of the Software Quality Engineering Research Group (SoftQual)

www.softqual.ucalgary.ca

Associate Professor (April 2010– May 2014), sabbatical leave (the entire year of 2013)

Assistant Professor (September 2006 – April 2010)

Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty (June 2007‐June 2010)

A member of the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG)

Sept. 2008 – Dec. 2013 Founder, Managing Director and Senior Software Consultant

Maral Software Consulting and R&D Corporation

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

May 2001 – Sept. 2006 Graduate student and research assistant

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

2 EDUCATION Sept. 2006 PhD in Software Engineering

Software Quality Engineering Laboratory (SQUALL), Department of Systems and Computer

Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Thesis Title: Traffic‐aware Stress Testing of Distributed Real‐Time Systems Based on UML

Models using Genetic Algorithms

Thesis Advisors: Dr. Lionel Briand and Dr. Yvan Labiche

Sept. 2003 MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Thesis Title: Methods to Reduce Memory Requirements of Turbo Codes

Thesis Advisor: Prof. Amir K. Khandani

Sept. 2000 BSc in Software Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran


3 RESEARCH

3.1 AREAS OF INTEREST AND EXPERTISE Software engineering

Software testing, software test engineering and quality assurance

Model‐driven development and testing using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Testing service‐oriented, web‐based, distributed, embedded, and real‐time systems

Performance analysis, engineering and testing

Software engineering of energy‐related systems

Software engineering education and software testing education

Applications of optimization in software engineering

3.2 SUMMARY OF CITATIONS AND IMPACT

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3.3 PUBLICATIONS

3.3.1 Edited Proceedings

1. Editors: Qing Wang, Vahid Garousi, Ray Madachy, Dietmar Pfahl, “Trustworthy Software Development

Processes, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2009)”, Vancouver, Canada,

May 16‐17, 2009, Publisher: Springer, Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5543, 2009


3.3.2 Book Chapters

1. Vahid Garousi, Shawn Shahnewaz, Diwakar Krishnamurthy, ʺUML‐driven software performance engineering: A

systematic mapping and trend analysisʺ, Book Chapter, Progressions and Innovations in Model‐Driven Software

Engineering, Editors: Vicente García Díaz, Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle, Begoña Cristina Pelayo García‐Bustelo,

Oscar Sanjuán Martínez, IGI Global, pp. 18‐64, June 2013

2. Vahid Garousi, Riley Kotchorek, Mike Smith, “Test cost‐effectiveness and defect density: a case study on the

Android platform”, Book Chapter, Book: Advances in Computers, Volume: 89, Editor: Atif M. Memon, Elsevier,

pp. 164‐205, May 2013

3.3.3 Publications in International Journals

1. Vahid Garousi, Mika V. Mäntylä, ʺWhen and what to automate in software testing: A multi‐vocal literature

reviewʺ, Information and Software Technology, 2016, DOI:

2. Vahid Garousi, Matt M. Eskandar, Kadir Herkiloğlu, ʺIndustry‐academia collaborations in Software Testing:

Experience and success stories from Canada and Turkeyʺ, Software Quality Journal, special issue on Industry

Academia Collaborations in Software Testing , 2016, DOI:

3. Muhammad Rezaul Karim, Gunther Ruhe, Md. Mainur Rahman, Vahid Garousi, Thomas Zimmermann, ʺAn

Empirical investigation of single‐objective and multi‐objective evolutionary algorithms for developer’s assignment

to bugsʺ, Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 2016, DOI:

4. Vahid Garousi, Dietmar Pfahl, “When to automate software testing? A decision‐support approach based on

process simulation”, Wiley Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 28(4): pp. 272‐285, 2016, DOI: 10.1002/smr.1758

5. Vahid Garousi, João M. Fernandes, ʺHighly‐cited papers in software engineering: The top‐100ʺ, Journal of

Information and Software Technology, volume 71, pp. 108–128, March 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2015.11.003

6. Vahid Garousi, Mika Mäntylä, ʺCitations, research topics and active countries in software engineering: A

bibliometrics studyʺ, Elsevier Computer Science Review Journal, volume 19, February 2016, pp. 56–77, DOI: 10.1016/j.cosrev.2015.12.002

7. Vahid Garousi, Ahmet Coşkunçay, Onur Demirörs, Ali Yazici, “Cross‐factor analysis of software engineering

practices versus practitioner demographics: an exploratory study in Turkey”, Journal of Systems and Software,

vol. 111, pp. 49–73, January 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.09.013

8. Vahid Garousi, “A bibliometric analysis of the Turkish software engineering research community”, Springer

Journal on Scientometrics, volume 105, no. 1, pp. 23‐49, Oct. 2015, DOI: 10.1007/s11192‐015‐1663‐x

9. Vahid Garousi, Ahmet Coşkunçay, Aysu Betin‐Can, Onur Demirörs, ʺA survey of software engineering practices

in Turkeyʺ, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 108, pp. 148‐177, Oct. 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.06.036

10. Vahid Garousi, Yasaman Amannejad, Aysu Betin‐Can, “Software test‐code engineering: a systematic mapping”,

Journal of Information and Software Technology, volume 58, pp. 123–147, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2014.06.009, February

2015


11. Junji Zhi, Vahid Garousi, Bo Sun, Golara Garousi, Shawn Shahnewaz, Guenther Ruhe, “Cost, benefits and quality

of software development documentation: a systematic mapping”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 99, pp.

175–198, January 2015, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.09.042

12. Golara Garousi, Vahid Garousi, Guenther Ruhe, Junji Zhi, Mahmoud Moussavi, Brian Smith, ʺUsage and

usefulness of technical software documentation: an industrial case studyʺ, Elsevier Journal of Information and

Software Technology, vol. 57, pp. 664-682, January 2015, DOI: 10.1016/ j.infsof.2014.08.003

13. Serdar Doğan, Aysu Betin‐Can, Vahid Garousi, “Web application testing: a systematic literature review”, Journal

of Systems and Software, volume 91, pp. 174–201, May 2014, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2014.01.010

14. Vahid Garousi, Guenther Ruhe, “A bibliometric/geographic assessment of 40 years of software engineering research (1969-

2009)”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1343–1366, Nov. 2013,

DOI: 10.1142/S0218194013500423

15. Ishan Banerjee, Bao Nguyen, Vahid Garousi, Atif Memon, “Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing: systematic mapping and

repository”, Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology, Volume 55, Issue 10, pp. 1679–1694, October 2013,

DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2013.03.004

16. Roshanak Farhoodi, Vahid Garousi, Dietmar Pfahl, Jonathan Paul Sillito, “Development of scientific software: a systematic

mapping, bibliometrics study and a paper repository”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge

Engineering, Volume 23, Issue 04, pp. 463-506, May 2013, DOI: 10.1142/S0218194013500137

17. Vahid Garousi, Ali Mesbah, Aysu Betin-Can, Shabnam Mirshokraie, “A systematic mapping study of web application

testing”, Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 1374–1396, August 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2013.02.006

18. Vahid Garousi, Junji Zhi, "A survey of software testing practices in Canada", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 86,

Issue 5, pp. 1354–1376, May 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.12.051

19. Vahid Garousi, Tan Varma, "Bibliometrics analysis of Canadian Electrical and Computer Engineering institutions (1996-

2006) based on IEEE journal publications", Canadian Journal on Computer and Information Science, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1-24,

July 2012 , DOI: 10.5539/cis.v5n4p1

20. Vahid Garousi, “Classification and trend analysis of UML books (1997-2009)”, Journal on Software & System Modeling

(SoSyM), volume 11, issue 2, pp. 273-285, May 2012, DOI: 10.1007/s10270‐011‐0189‐9

21. Vahid Garousi, “Fault-driven stress testing of distributed real-time software based on UML models”, Wiley InterScience

Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (STVR), volume 21, issue 2, pp. 101–124, June 2011, DOI: 10.1002/stvr.418

22. Vahid Garousi, “Experience in developing a robot control software”, Canadian Journal on Computer and Information Science,

vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3-13, Jan. 2011, DOI: 10.5539/cis.v4n1p3

23. Vahid Garousi, “A genetic algorithm-based stress test requirements generator tool and its empirical evaluation”, IEEE

Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), vol. 36 no. 6, pp. 778-

797, November/December 2010, DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2010.5


24. Ehsan Abbasi, Vahid Garousi, “An MILP-based formulation for minimizing pumping energy costs of oil pipelines: beneficial

to both the environment and pipeline companies”, Springer Journal on Energy Systems, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 393–416, Nov. 2010,

DOI: 10.1007/s12667‐010‐0016‐3

25. Muhammad Irfan Ullah, Guenther Ruhe, Vahid Garousi, “Decision support for moving from a single product to a product

portfolio in evolving software systems”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 83, no. 12, pp., 2496–2512, Dec. 2010, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.07.049

26. Nariman Mani, Vahid Garousi, Behrouz H. Far, “Search-based testing of multi-agent manufacturing systems for deadlock

detection based on UML models”, Special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), pp. 417-

437, vol. 19, no. 6, December 2010

27. Vahid Garousi, Tan Varma, “A replicated survey of software testing practices in the Canadian province of Alberta: What has

Changed from 2004 to 2009?”, Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 83, no. 11, pp. 2251-2262, Nov. 2010, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2010.07.012

28. Vahid Garousi, James Leitch, “IssuePlayer: An extensible framework for visual assessment of issue management in software

development projects”, Elsevier Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 121–135, June 2010, DOI:

10.1016/j.jvlc.2010.03.001

29. Vahid Garousi, “Experience and challenges with UML-driven performance engineering of a distributed real-time system”,

Journal on Information and Software Technology, vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 625–640, June 2010, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.01.003

30. Vahid Garousi, “Applying peer reviews in software engineering education: an experiment and lessons learned”, IEEE

Transactions on Education, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 182-193, May 2010, DOI: 10.1109/TE.2008.2010994

31. Vahid Garousi, Tan Varma, “A bibliometric assessment of Canadian software engineering scholars and institutions (1996-

2006)”, Canadian Journal on Computer and Information Science, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 19-29, May 2010, DOI: 10.5539/cis.v3n2p19

32. Negar Koochakzadeh, Vahid Garousi, "A tester-assisted methodology for test redundancy detection", Journal on Advances in

Software Engineering, Special Issue on Software Test Automation, vol. 2010, pp. 1-13, January 2010, DOI: 10.1155/2010/932686

33. Vahid Garousi, “Incorporating message weights in UML-based analysis of behavioral dependencies in distributed systems”,

Journal on Software & System Modeling (SoSyM), vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 113-137, January 2010, DOI: 10.1007/s10270‐008‐0111‐2

34. Vahid Garousi, “Investigating the success factors of open-source software projects across their lifetime”, Journal of Software

Engineering Studies, Special Issue on Open-Source Software Development, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 1-15, June 2009

35. Vahid Garousi, Keyvan Khosrovian, Dietmar Pfahl, “A customizable pattern-based software process simulation model:

design, calibration and application”, Invited paper in the International Journal of Software Process: Improvement and Practice

(SPIP), vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 165–180, (acceptance rate~5%), May 2009, DOI: 10.1002/spip.411

36. Vahid Garousi, Lionel Briand, Yvan Labiche, “A UML-based quantitative framework for early prediction of resource usage

and load in distributed real-time software”, Journal on Software & System Modeling, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 275-302, April 2009,

DOI: 10.1007/s10270‐008‐0099‐7


37. Vahid Garousi, Lionel Briand, Yvan Labiche, “Traffic-aware stress testing of distributed real-time systems based on UML

models using genetic algorithms”, Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Special Issue on Model-based Software

Testing, vol. 81, no. 2, pp. 161–185, (acceptance rate=8/43~%18), February 2008, DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2007.05.037

3.3.4 Publications in International Conference Proceedings

1. Vahid Garousi, Ebru Göçmen Ergezer, Kadir Herkiloğlu, "Usage, usefulness and quality of defect reports: an industrial case

study", 20th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Limerick, Ireland,

2016, DOI:

2. Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, Mika V. Mäntylä, "The need for multivocal literature reviews in software engineering:

complementing systematic literature reviews with grey literature", 20th International Conference on Evaluation and

Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), Limerick, Ireland, 2016, DOI:

3. Vahid Garousi, Kadir Herkiloğlu, "Selecting the right topics for industry-academia collaborations in software testing: an

experience report", IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), acceptance

rate=26% (35/130), pp. X-Y, 2016, DOI:

4. Simon Poulding, Kai Petersen, Robert Feldt, Vahid Garousi, "Using citation behavior to rethink academic impact in software

engineering", International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Beijing, China, pp.

140-143, October 2015, DOI: 10.1109/ESEM.2015.7321216

5. Päivi Raulamo-Jurvanen, Mika V. Mäntylä, Vahid Garousi, "Citation and topic analysis of the ESEM papers", International

Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Beijing, China, pp. 136-139, October 2015, DOI:

10.1109/ESEM.2015.7321193

6. Deniz Akdur, Vahid Garousi, “Model-driven engineering in support of development, test and maintenance of middleware

communication protocols: a preliminary approach”, International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software

Development (MODELSWARD), Doctoral Consortium, Feb. 2015

7. Md. Mainur Rahman, Guenther Ruhe, Vahid Garousi, Thomas Zimmermann, “An empirical investigation of a genetic

algorithm for developer's assignment to bugs”, First North American Search-Based Software Engineering Symposium

(NasBASE), Feb. 2015

8. Zahra Sahaf, Vahid Garousi, Dietmar Pfahl, Rob Irving, Yasaman Amannejad, "When to automate software testing? decision

support based on system dynamics – An Industrial Case Study", Proceedings of International Conference on Software and

Systems Process (ICSSP), pp. 149-158, May 2014, DOI: 10.1145/2600821.2600832

9. Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Giulio Antoniol, Vahid Garousi, Junji Zhi, Guenther Ruhe, "A pilot experiment to quantify

the effect of documentation accuracy on maintenance tasks", IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance

(ICSM), Early Research Achievements (ERA) track, pp. 428 – 431, September 2013, DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2013.64

10. Golara Garousi, Vahid Garousi, Mahmoud Moussavi, Guenther Ruhe, Brian Smith, “Evaluating benefit and quality of

technical software documentation: an empirical study”, 17th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in

Software Engineering (EASE), pp. 24-35, April 2013 (acceptance rate: 15/61=24.5%). Received the “best paper” award,

DOI: 10.1145/2460999.2461003

11. Ayman Issa, Jonathan Sillito, Vahid Garousi, "Visual testing of graphical user interfaces: an exploratory study towards


systematic definitions and approaches", IEEE International Symposium on Web Systems Evolution (WSE 2012), co-located

with the ICSM, pp. 11-15, Sept. 2012, DOI: 10.1109/WSE.2012.6320526

12. Shahnewaz Amin Jolly, Vahid Garousi, Matt M. Eskandar, “Automated unit testing of a SCADA control software: an

industrial case study based on action research”, IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and

Validation (ICST), pp. 400-409, April 2012, DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2012.120

13. Matt M. Eskandar, Vahid Garousi, “Engineering control software systems: a multi-disciplinary challenge”, IEEE International

Systems Conference, pp. 1-6, March 2012, DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2012.6189523

14. Christian Wiederseiner, Vahid Garousi, Mike Smith, “Tool support for automated traceability of test/code artifacts in

embedded software systems”, IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS), pp. 1109-1117,

November 2011, DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom.2011.151

15. Vahid Garousi, “Incorporating real-world industrial testing projects in software testing courses: opportunities, challenges, and

lessons learned”, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), Hawaii,

USA, pp. 396-400, May 2011, DOI: 10.1109/CSEET.2011.5876112

16. Ehsan Abbasi, Vahid Garousi, “Multi-Objective Optimization of both pumping energy and maintenance costs in oil pipeline

networks using genetic algorithms”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Evolutionary Computation (ICEC),

Valencia, Spain, pp. 153-162, October 2010, DOI: 10.5220/0003063801530162

17. Vahid Garousi, Negar Koochakzadeh, “An empirical evaluation to study benefits of visual versus textual test coverage

information”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and

Research Techniques (TAIC PART), Windsor, UK, pp. 189-193, September 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15585-7_19

18. Negar Koochakzadeh, Vahid Garousi, “TeCReVis: A tool for test coverage and test redundancy visualization”, Proceedings

of the International Conference on Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC

PART), pp. 129-136, September 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15585-7_12

19. Christian Wiederseiner, Shahnewaz Amin Jolly, Vahid Garousi and Matt M. Eskandar, “An open-source tool for automated

generation of black-box xunit test code and its industrial evaluation”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Testing:

Academic and Industrial Conference - Practice and Research Techniques (TAIC PART), pp. 118-128, September 2010, DOI:

10.1007/978-3-642-15585-7_11

20. Vahid Garousi, “UML model-driven detection of performance bottlenecks in concurrent real-time software”, Proceedings of

the International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (SPECTS), Ottawa,

Canada, pp. 317-323, July 11-14, 2010

21. Yuri Shewchuk, Vahid Garousi, “Experience with maintenance of a functional GUI test suite using IBM Rational Functional

Tester”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), pp. 489-

494, July 2010

22. Vahid Garousi, Aditya Mathur, “Current state of the software testing education in north american academia and some

recommendations for the new educators”, Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and

Training (CSEE&T), pp. 89-96, Pittsburgh, USA, March 2010, DOI: 10.1109/CSEET.2010.29

23. Vahid Garousi, “An open modern software testing laboratory courseware: an experience report”, Proceedings of the 23rd


IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), pp. 177-184, Pittsburgh, USA, March 2010,

DOI: 10.1109/CSEET.2010.40

24. Ehsan Abbasi, Vahid Garousi, “Decreasing the carbon footprint of oil pipelines by minimizing pumping costs using MILP”,

INFORMS Optimization Society Conference on Energy, Sustainability and Climate Change, February 26-28 2010,

Gainesville, Florida, USA

25. Nariman Mani, Vahid Garousi, Behrouz H. Far, “Runtime monitoring of multi-agent manufacturing systems for deadlock

detection based on models”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI),

pp. 292-299, Nov. 2-4, 2009, Newark, New Jersey USA DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2009.112

26. Muhammad Irfan Ullah, Guenther Ruhe, Vahid Garousi, “Design and Architectural Evaluation of Product Variants: A Case

Study on an Open Source Software System”, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering and

Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), pp. 141-146, July 2009, Boston, USA

27. Vahid Garousi, “Evidence-based Insights about Issue Management Processes: An Exploratory Study”, Proceedings of the

International Conference on Software Process (ICSP), pp. 112–123, co-located with ICSE 2009, May 2009, Vancouver,

Canada. Acceptance rate: 33% (32/96), DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01680-6_12

28. Negar Koochakzadeh, Vahid Garousi, Frank Maurer, “Test Redundancy Measurement Based on Coverage Information:

Evaluations and Lessons Learned”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and

Validation (ICST), Denver, Colorado, USA, pp. 220-229, April 1-4, 2009. Acceptance rate: 33% (59/178), DOI:

10.1109/ICST.2009.8

29. Nariman Mani, Vahid Garousi, Behrouz H. Far, “A UML-Based Conversion Tool for Monitoring and Testing Multi-Agent

Systems”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), pp. 212-219,

November 3-5, 2008, Dayton, Ohio, USA, DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI.2008.114

30. Vahid Garousi, “Are Many Heads Better Than One? Using Peer Reviews in Engineering Design Courses”, Proceedings of the

Canadian Design Engineering Network Conference (CDEN) 2008, July 27-29, Halifax, Nova Scotia

31. Nariman Mani, Vahid Garousi, Behrouz H. Far, “Testing Multi-Agent Systems For Deadlock Detection Based on UML

Models”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS) 2008, pp. 77-84, Sept. 4-6,

2008, Boston, USA

32. Vahid Garousi, “Empirical Analysis of a Genetic Algorithm-based Stress Test Technique for Distributed Real-Time Systems”,

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), Search-Based Software Engineering

(SBSE) track, pp. 1743-1750, July 12-16, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (Nominated for the Best Paper Award), DOI:

10.1145/1389095.1389433

33. Keyvan Khosrovian, Dietmar Pfahl, Vahid Garousi, “GENSIM 2.0: A Customizable Process Simulation Model for Software

Process Evaluation”, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008), pp. 294-306, Leipzig,

Germany (co-located with ICSE 2008), May 10-11, 2008, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79588-9_26

34. Nariman Mani, Vahid Garousi, Behrouz H. Far , “Efficient Monitoring of Multi-Agent Systems for Deadlock Detection based

on UML Models”, Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008 (CCECE'08),

Computer Systems and Applications track, pp. 1611-1616, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 4-7, 2008, DOI:


10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564814

35. Vahid Garousi, “A Formalism for Arrival Time Analysis of Real-Time Tasks based on UML Models”, Proceedings of IEEE

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008 (CCECE'08), Computer Systems and Applications track,

pp. 1575-1579, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 4-7, 2008, DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2008.4564807

36. Vahid Garousi, "Traffic-aware Stress Testing of Distributed Real-Time Systems based on UML Models in the presence of

Time Uncertainty", Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation

(ICST), pp. 92-101, Lillehammer, Norway, April 9-11, 2008, Acceptance rate=37/224~%16, DOI: 10.1109/ICST.2008.7

37. Vahid Garousi, Lionel Briand, Yvan Labiche, “Analysis and Visualization of Behavioral Dependencies among Distributed

Objects based on UML Models”, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering

Languages and Systems (MoDELS), LNCS 4199, pp. 365-379, October 1-6, 2006, Genoa, Italy (acceptance rate ~29%), DOI:

10.1007/11880240_26

38. Vahid Garousi, Lionel Briand, Yvan Labiche, “Traffic-aware Stress Testing of Distributed Systems Based on UML Models”,

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2006), pp. 391-400, Shanghai, China, May

20-28, 2006 (acceptance rate=9%), DOI: 10.1145/1134285.1134340

39. Vahid Garousi, Lionel Briand and Yvan Labiche, “Control Flow Analysis of UML 2.0 Sequence Diagrams”, Proceedings of

European Conference on Model Driven Architecture-Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA), LNCS 3748, pp. 160-174,

Nuremberg, Germany, November 7-10th, 2005 (acceptance rate~%29), DOI: 10.1007/11581741_13

40. Vahid Garousi, “Analysis of Network Traffic in Ad-Hoc Networks based on DSDV Protocol with Emphasis on Mobility and

Communication Patterns”, Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference in Central Asia on Internet, pp. 1-5, Bishkek,

Kyrgyzstan, September 2005, DOI: 10.1109/CANET.2005.1598210

41. Vahid Garousi, Amir K. Khandani, "Reducing Memory Usage of the MAP Turbo Decoding by Calculating alpha State Values

in Backward Recursion", Proceedings of the University of Waterloo’s 2003 Graduate Research Conference, University of

Waterloo, April 2003

42. Vahid Garousi, Amir K. Khandani, "Comparison of Turbo Codes vs. Turbo Product Codes in Next Generation Satellite

Communication Systems", Proceedings of the CITR (Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research) 10th Annual

Research Conference, Aylmer, QC, Canada, August 2001

3.3.5 Publications in International Workshops

1. Evren Coşkun, Melta Ceylan, Kadir Yiğitözu, Vahid Garousi, “A tool for automated inspection of software design documents

and its empirical evaluation in an aviation industry setting”, Testing: Academia-Industry Collaboration, Practice and Research

Techniques (TAIC PART) workshop, co-located with ICST 2016, , Chicago, IL, USA April 11, 2016

2. Yasaman Amannejad, Vahid Garousi, Rob Irving, Zahra Sahaf, "A Search-based Approach for Cost-Effective Software Test

Automation Decision Support and an Industrial Case Study", Proceedings of International Workshop on Regression Testing,

co-located with the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), pp. 302-

311, April 2014, DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2014.34

3. Junji Zhi and Vahid Garousi, "On Adequacy of Assertions in Automated Test Suites: An Empirical Investigation", Third

International Workshop on Regression Testing, co-located with the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Software Testing,


Verification, and Validation (ICST), pp. 382–391, March 2013, DOI: 10.1109/ICSTW.2013.49

4. Vahid Garousi, Ehsan Abbasi, Roshanak Farhoodi, Richard Bauer, Allan Shea, “Engineering Software Systems for Improving

the Operational Efficiency of Oil Pipeline Networks and Decreasing their Carbon Footprint”, A video presentation for the

Second International Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change, Cape Town, South Africa, May 3, 2010, part of

the ICSE 2010

5. Caryna Pinheiro, Vahid Garousi, Frank Maurer, Jonathan Sillito, “Introducing Automated Environment Configuration Testing

in an Industrial Setting”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

(SEKE), Workshop on Software Test Automation, Practice, and Standardization, pp. 186-191, July 2010

6. Vahid Garousi, “Choosing the Right Testing Tools and Systems Under Test (SUTs) for Practical Exercises in Testing

Education”, 8th Workshop on Teaching Software Testing (WTST), Melbourne, Florida, January 30-Feb. 1, 2009

7. Vahid Garousi, Lionel Briand and Yvan Labiche, “A Unified Approach for Predictability Analysis of Real-Time Systems

using UML-based Control Flow Information”, Presented in the International Workshop on Modeling and Analysis of Real-

Time and Embedded Systems (MARTES), in conjunction with International Conference on Model Driven Engineering

Languages and Systems (MoDELS/UML), Montego Bay, Jamaica, pp. 1-5, October 4, 2005

3.3.6 Publications in National Conference Proceedings

1. Deniz Akdur, Vahid Garousi, Onur Demirörs, "A Survey on Software Modeling and Model-Driven Techniques in Embedded

Systems Engineering: Results from Turkey" ("Gömülü Sistem Mühendisliğinde Kullanılan Yazılım Modellemesi ve Model

Güdümlü Teknikler Anketi: Türkiye Sonuçları"), Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım

Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS), Sept. 2015

2. Kıvanç Dinçer, Vahid Garousi, "Failure in Software Projects: a Case Study based on Critical Success Factors" ("Yazılım

Projelerinde Başarısızlık: Kritik Başarı Faktörlerine Dayalı bir Vaka Çalışması"), Turkish National Software Engineering

Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS), Sept. 2015

3. Vahid Garousi, Alok Mishra, Ali Yazıcı, "Assessment and improvement of the Software Engineering curriculum using the

SWEBOK: a case study in a Turkish SE program" ("Üniversite Yazılım Mühendisliği programları müfredatının SWEBOK

kılavuzu kullanılarak değerlendirme ve iyileştirilmesi: Türkiye’de bir vaka çalışması"), Turkish National Software

Engineering Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS), Sept. 2015

4. Vahid Garousi, Ali Yazıcı, “Mobile Software Engineering Education: An Experience Report from Atilim University” (title

in Turkish: “Mobil Yazılım Mühendisliği Eğitimi: Atılım Üniversitesi’nden bir Deneyim Raporu”), Turkish

national information technology conference (Ulusal Bilişim Kurultayı), pp. 7-14, November 2014, Ankara, Turkey

5. Gökhan Urul, Vahid Garousi, Gökalp Urul, ʺTest Automation for Embedded Real‐time Software: An Approach

and Experience Report in the Turkish Industryʺ (title in Turkish: “Gerçek Zamanlı Gömülü Yazılımlar için Test

Otomasyonu: Türkiye Endüstrisinden Bir Yaklaşım ve Deneyim Raporu”), Turkish National Software Engineering

Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS), pp. 305-314, September 2014

6. Vahid Garousi, Ahmet Coşkunçay, Aysu Betin Can, Onur Demirörs, “A Survey of Software Testing Practices in Turkey”,

(title in Turkish: “Türkiye’deki Yazılım Test Uygulamaları Anketi), Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium

“Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS), Sept. 2013


3.3.7 Publications in International Magazines

1. Vahid Garousi, Frank Elberzhager, ʺTest automation: not just for test executionʺ, IEEE Software, 2016, DOI:

2. Vahid Garousi, Michael Felderer, “Developing, verifying and maintaining high‐quality automated test scriptsʺ,

IEEE Software, volume: 33, issue: 3, pp. 68-75,, May/June 2016, DOI: 10.1109/MS.2016.30

3. S. M. Didar-Al-Alam, Vahid Garousi, "Black or White? A Study of Test Cost-Effectiveness and Coverage Distribution on an

Open-Source Software", Testing Experience, no. 21, pp. 6-15, 2013

4. Vahid Garousi, "Interests of the Crowd: Using Internet Search Statistics to Measure Popularity of Lean vs. Heavyweight

Development Practices", Agile Record, issue 7, pp. 14-20, July 2011

5. Riley Kotchorek, Mike Smith, Vahid Garousi, “Mobile Application Development (Part 1)-Program a Sound-Monitoring

Prototype”, Circuit Cellar Magazine, issue 245, pp. 16-25, Dec. 2010

6. Riley Kotchorek, Mike Smith, Vahid Garousi, “Mobile Application Development (Part 2)-A Sound Detection Algorithm”,

Circuit Cellar Magazine, Theme: Embedded Applications, issue 246, pp. 16-25, January 2011

3.3.8 Publications in National Journals, etc.

1. Vahid Garousi, Ali Yazıcı , “Among the careers of the future: Software Test Engineering” (In Turkish: Geleceğin

Mesleklerinden: Yazılım Test Mühendisliği), Science and Technology Journal of the Cumhuriyet Newspaper (In Turkish:

Cumhuriyet Gazetesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi), September 2014, http://acikarsiv.atilim.edu.tr/browse/948

3.3.9 Published Reviews

1. Vahid Garousi, Book review of “Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an Extreme Testing Environment”, Published in the IEEE

Software Bookshelf online, Nov. 2010

2. Vahid Garousi, Book review of “Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice”, by Sagar Naik and Piyu

Tripathy, ISBN-20: 0471789119, ISBN-13: 978-0471789116, John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Published in the IEEE Software

Bookshelf, January/February 2009

3. Vahid Garousi, Book review of “The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0”, by Sandy Carter, IBM Press, 2007, ISBN

978-0131956544, IEEE Software Bookshelf (online version),

www.computer.org/portal/pages/software/bookshelf/2008/s2bk2.html, April 2008

4. Vahid Garousi, Book review of “Managing Iterative Software Development Projects”, by Ian Spence and Kurt Bittner, ISBN:

978-0321268891, IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 101-102, September/October 2007

5. Vahid Garousi, Review of the article “An Instrument for the Measurement of Customer Perceptions of Quality Management

in the Software Industry: an Empirical Study in India”, ACM Computing Reviews (online version),

www.reviews.com/review/review_review.cfm?review_id=134692, August 2007

3.3.10 Abstracts/Posters

1. Vahid Garousi, Tan Varma, “A Bibliometric Assessment of Canadian Software Engineering Institutions (1996-2006) and their

Research Efficiency”, Spring 2012 Meeting of the Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), May 7-


8, 2012, University of Victoria

2. Riley Kotchorek, Vahid Garousi, Mike Smith, “An Exploratory Case Study of the Android Test Suites”, Spring 2012 Meeting

of the Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research (CSER), May 7-8, 2012, University of Victoria

3. Christian Wiederseiner, Vahid Garousi, “A Framework and a Toolset for Artifact Traceability in Embedded Software

Systems”, Alberta Graduate Conference, Calgary, May 5-7, 2011

4. Shahnewaz Amin Jolly, Vahid Garousi, “Automated Testing of an Industrial Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition

(SCADA) Software System”, Alberta Graduate Conference, Calgary, May 5-7, 2011

5. Roshanak Farhoodi, Vahid Garousi, “A Systematic Literature Review of Software Engineering for Scientific and Engineering

Software and an Industrial Oil Pipeline Software Case Study”, Alberta Graduate Conference, Calgary, May 5-7, 2011

6. M. Smith, J. Miller, S. Islam, V. Garousi, R. Frayne, “Identification and Application of a Embedded System Software

Development Process that Matches the Experiences of Engineers”, Alberta Graduate Conference, Calgary, May 5-7, 2011

3.3.11 Theses

Vahid Garousi, “Traffic-aware Stress Testing of Distributed Real-Time Systems Based on UML Models using Genetic

Algorithms”, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada,

August 2006

Vahid Garousi, “Methods to Reduce Memory Requirements of Turbo Codes”, M.A.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, August 2003

Vahid Garousi, “Locating SNMP Network Elements, Retrieval and Graphical Representation of Local Area Network

Architecture”. B.Sc. Thesis (fourth year project), Dept. of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,

Iran, June 2000

3.3.12 Publications in the area of Social Sciences

Vahid Garousi, "Iranians in Canada: A Statistical Analysis", Proceedings of the 3rd Scientific Seminar on the Discourse of

Overseas Iranian Youth, Tehran, Iran (also published in www.iranian.com), August 2005

Vahid Garousi, “A Survey on the Immigration of Iranian Experts and the Elite: Reasons, Losses and Possible Solutions”,

Proceedings of the 2nd Scientific Seminar on the Discourse of Overseas Iranian Youth, Tehran, Iran, December 2003

3.4 SUPERVISION

3.4.1 Current PhD Students

Timeline Name Research area My role Institution

Feb. 2016– now Ali Yamuç Search‐based software testing Co‐supervisor, joint

with Dr. Dr.Mehmet

Aktaş

Yildiz Technical

University

May 2015– now Päivi Johanna Raulamo‐

Jurvanen

Automated software testing Co‐supervisor, joint

with Dr. Mika

Mäntylä

University of Oulu,

Finland


Jan. 2015‐ now Çağrı Karapıçak Testing embedded software Co‐supervisor, joint

with Dr. Onur

Demirörs

METU

Dec. 2014 ‐ now Tuna Hacaloğlu Software test maturity and test

process improvement

Co‐supervisor, joint

with Dr. Onur

Demirörs

METU

June 2013 ‐ now Deniz Akdur MDE in embedded real‐time

systems


with Dr. Onur

Demirörs

METU

3.4.2 Current MSc Students

Timeline Name Research area My role Institution

Feb. 2016– now Feyza Çubukçuoğlu TBD Supervisor Hacettepe

University

Jan. 2015‐ now Barış Küçük Smells in test code Co‐supervisor Atilim University

Jan. 2015‐ now Seyfettin Arkan Assessing the maturity

of software testing

services

Co‐supervisor Çankaya University

May 2014 ‐ now Fatma AKINCI An empirical study in

software test co‐

maintenance


with Dr. Ali Hikmet

Doğru

METU

June 2014 ‐ now Ramazan Ozkan Multi‐objective

regression test selection


with Dr. Aysu Betin‐

Can

METU

3.4.3 Previously‐supervised Students

3.4.3.1 Previously‐supervised Research Associates/Post‐Doctoral Fellows

Timeline Name Research area My role Institution Current position

July 2011‐ July

2012

Dr. Ayman Issa Visual software

testing

Co‐supervisor University of

Calgary

(as of July 2012): QA

Lead, 3esi

Jan. 2007‐Dec. 2009

Dr. Nesa Ilich Engineering

Intelligent

Software Systems

for Improving the

Operational

Efficiency of Oil

Pipeline Networks

Supervisor University of

Calgary

(as of July 2012):

Director, Optimal

Solutions Ltd.

3.4.3.2 Previously‐supervised PhD Students

Timeline Name Research area My role Institution Current

position

Sept. 2007 ‐Jan. 2013

(transferred to another

supervisor due to my

leave from UofC)

Research area

Abiola

Adegboyega

Performance Optimization of

Distributed Component‐Based

Web Applications through Smart

Migration


Calgary

‐

May 2013 ‐ August

2013



leave from UofC)

Maleknaz

Nayebi

Software testing Supervisor University of

Calgary

Feb. 2013 ‐ August 2013 Zahra Sahaf Software testing Supervisor University of

Calgary




leave from UofC)

Jan. 2013 ‐ August 2013



leave from UofC)

Yasaman

Amannejad

Software testing Supervisor

Co‐supervisor:

Dr. Guenther

Ruhe

University of

Calgary

3.4.3.3 Previously‐supervised MSc Students

Timeline Name Research area My role Institution Current position

September

2014 ‐ Jan.

2015

Anıl Erdoğan Development of a

software for drug‐

drug interactions

Co‐supervisor Atilim

University

Jan. 2013 –

Dec. 2014

Muzaffer Aydin GUI Testing of

Android

applications: a

systematic mapping

Co‐supervisor

Supervisor:

Dr. Aysu

Betin‐Can

METU

Jan. 2013 ‐

August 2013

(the student

left the

program)

Hasan Berk

Aymete

Software testing Co‐supervisor

Supervisor:

Dr. Aysu

Betin‐Can

METU Software Engineer,

Türkiye İş Bankası,

Istanbul

Jan. 2013 –

August 2013

(transferred to

another

supervisor

since I left

METU)

Esra Ekici Software testing Co‐supervisor

Supervisor:

Dr. Onur

Demirörs

METU

Jan. 2013 ‐

September

2013

Serdar Doğan Web application

testing: A Systematic

Literature Review

Co‐supervisor

Supervisor:

Dr. Aysu

Betin‐Can

METU Software engineer,

ASELSAN

May 2012 ‐

August 2013

(transferred to

another

supervisor

due to my

leave of

absence from

UofC)

Sheykh

Mohammad

Shahnewaz

Software

documentation

Supervisor

Co‐

supervisor:

Dr. Guenther

Ruhe

University of

Calgary

September

2011 ‐

September

2013

Junji (Kevin) Zhi Cost‐Benefit Analysis

on Technical

Software

Documentation

Supervisor

Co‐

supervisor:

Dr. Guenther

Ruhe

University of

Calgary

PhD student, U. of

Toronto

May 2011 ‐

Sept. 2012

Bo Sun A Methodology for

Analyzing Cost and

Cost‐Drivers of

Software

Documentation

Supervisor

Co‐

supervisor:

Dr. Guenther

Ruhe

University of

Calgary


Sept. 2009 ‐

Sept. 2011

Christian

Wiederseiner

Tool Support for

Automated

Traceability Analysis

in Embedded

Software Systems

Supervisor

Co‐

supervisor:

Dr. Mike

Smith

University of

Calgary

Appway, Zürich (as of

Mar. 2012)

Sept. 2009 –

Aug. 2011

Shahnewaz Amin

Jolly

Automated Testing

of an Industrial

Supervisory Control

and Data Acquisition

(SCADA) Software

System


Calgary

Sept. 2009 –

Aug. 2011

Roshanak

Farhoodi

A Systematic

Literature Review of

Software Engineering

for Scientific and

Engineering Software

and an Industrial Oil

Pipeline Software

Case Study


Calgary

Software developer at

prairieFyre Software Inc.,

Ottawa, ON (as of July

2012)

Jan. 2009 –

July 2010

Ehsan Abbasi A MILP

Optimization

Technique for

Improving Efficiency

in Oil Distribution

Systems


Calgary

Quality Assurance Tester

for SUBNET Solutions Inc.

(as of Oct. 2011)

Sept. 2007 –

Apr. 2009

Negar

Koochakzadeh

A Measurement,

Detection, and

Visualization

Framework for

Software Test

Redundancy


Calgary

Jan. 2007 –

Dec. 2008

Nariman Mani Search‐based Testing

of Multi‐Agent

Systems for

Deadlocks

Co‐supervisor

Supervisor:

Dr. Behrouz

H. Far

University of

Calgary

PhD student at the

University of Ottawa (as

of Oct. 2011)

Dec. 2007 –

Sept. 2008

Keyvan

Khosrovian

Software Process

Evaluation with a

Customizable

Pattern‐Based

Process Simulator

Co‐supervisor

Supervisor:

Dr. Dietmar

Pfahl

University of

Calgary

Software Engineer at

MatchCraft Inc. (as of Oct.

2011)

3.4.3.4 Previously‐supervised Course‐based MSc and MEng Students

Timeline Name Project Institution Current position

Jan. 2014 ‐ June

2014

Gülin Nur

Demirparmak

A systematic mapping

study of real‐time system

testing

Atilim University Software Test Engineer,

Comodo

Sept. 2010 ‐

August 2013

Ajmal Beg University of

Calgary

Sept. 2010 –

August 2013

Smitha Anand University of

Calgary

Jan. 09 – Oct.

2011

Muhammad Adil University of

Calgary

Sept. 09 – May

2011

Uzoma Ihekwoaba University of

Calgary

Reliability Engineer at SKF

Canada (as of Oct. 2011)


Sept. 09 – Jan.

2011

Rina Rao University of

Calgary

Master Data Management

Specialist at Nexen Inc. (as of

Oct. 2011)

Sept. 07 – April

2010

Venkat K.

Mantripragada

University of

Calgary

Software Process Architect at

CDL Systems Ltd. (as of Oct.

2011)

Jan. 08 –Dec.

2009

Sajida Faiyaz University of

Calgary

Software Development

Engineer at Software Industry

(as of Oct. 2011)

3.4.3.5 Previously‐supervised Undergraduate Student Researchers

1. May 11 – Aug. 11 Eliezer Mar (Elmar) Yumol Manarang

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards Program (USRA)

Research project: Extracting traceability links from software repositories

Co‐supervised with: Dr. Guenther Ruhe

2. May 10 – Aug. 10 Ekta Banga

Undergraduate Researcher

Research projects: Experimentation with large‐scale Test Suites

3. May 10 – Aug. 10 Priya Verma



4. May 10 – Aug. 10 Vrinda Vaish



5. May 10 – Aug. 10 Riley Kotchorek


Research project: Embedded Software Testing

6. May 09 – Aug. 09 Riley Kotchorek


Research project: Testing of Handheld Software using TTCN

7. May 09 – Aug. 09 Tan Varma


Research project: Software Engineering surveys and biblio‐metric assessment of scholars and

institutions

8. May 09 – Aug. 09 James Leitch


Research project: Software Visualization

9. May 08 – Aug. 08 Yuri Shewchuk

Research project: Software Testing Education

3.4.3.6 Previously‐supervised Undergraduate 4th‐Year Capstone Projects

1. September‐December 2014

Project: SmartLawyerSelection

Student: Batuhan Demirer, Engin Şenay, Mevlude Ece CEYLAN, Aylin DABLAN

Atilim University


Project: Web‐based smart project management application


Student: Çağlar Mehmet Metin, Erçin Kırpık, Canberk Cemil Ersoy,

Atilim University


Project: Forensics visualization

Student: Mustafa Anil Tuncel, Merve Irmak, Emine Ozge Özgen, Tahsin Tolga Yavuz

Atilim University


Project: Wholesale marketplace for Fruits

Student: Akın SARPER, İbrahim Tolga ÇOBANOĞLU, Gürkan MİNTA, Sercan DEVECİ

Atilim University

5. F 2011 – W 2012 Fourth year design project

Title: Moving Object Detection

4 Students: Deven Chawla, Bushra Muharram, Alif Zaman, Aesha Patel

6. F 2011 – W 2012 Fourth year design project

Title: Intelligent Power Monitoring System

4 Students: Brad Paterson, Jeff Bots, Sandeep Bhatti, Kun Han

7. Sept. 10 ‐ April 11 Fourth year design project

Title: MyCourses Course Scheduling System

3 Students: Jeremy Lyons, Jeff Wong, Dori Saba


Title: QR Marks the spot

4 Students: Andrew Thornton, Robert Hilton, Doug Rosvick, Olivia Norton


Title: GridIt: Calgaryʹs first online Super‐local News Aggregation system

5 Students: Daniel Gill, Ryan Cheung, Tim Drews, Adrian Eykens, Dan Ferguson


Title: Robocup: Analysis, Design and Implementation of a Robot to Play Soccer (a.k.a.

Football)

4 Students: Erik Clarke, Kevin Dorling, Matthew Sattlegger, Graham Wells


Title: Analysis, Design and Implementation of a Software System for Human Movement to

Virtual World Interface

4 Students: Matthew Crist, Gordon Siu Nam Cheng, Stephanie Lynn Saul, Isaac Marcillous

Bolinger

Collaboration with: Dr. Hanan Yaniv, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary


Title: Analysis, Design and Implementation of a model‐driven framework for the

Development of Multi‐Agent Systems

2 Students: Michael Quinn and Yuri Shewchuk


Title: Optimization of Hydro Power Generation

Industrial Advisor: Dr. Nesa Ilich, Optimal Solutions Ltd.

3 Students: Patrick Choy, Timothy Yip, Gabriel Wong



Title: A Web‐based Decision Support Tool for River Basin Managers

Industrial Advisor: Dr. Nesa Ilich, Optimal Solutions Ltd.

4 Students: Serge Basso, Tim Knudston, Justin Crapo, Burns Hill

3.4.3.7 Previously‐supervised Internship (co‐op) Students

1. May 2013 – May 2014 Software Engineering Student: Marshall David Freeman

Internship Company: Crescent Point Energy Corp

2. May 2013 – May 2014 Software Engineering Student: Ryan Elliott Louis

Internship Company: ‐

3. Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2013 Software Engineering Student: Michael Juhani Soikelli

Internship Company: Telvent Canada Ltd.

4. Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2013 Software Engineering Student: Sean Thomas Burke

Internship Company: Rugged Solutions

5. May 2012 – May 2013 Software Engineering Student: Tyler Daniel Malcolm

Internship Company: Suncor Energy Inc.

6. May 2012 – May 2013 Software Engineering Student: Andrew Kieran Midwinter


7. May 11 – May 12 Software Engineering Student: Francis Levesque

Internship Company: Symantec

8. May 10 – May 11 Software Engineering Student: James Leitch

Internship Company: SMART Technologies

9. May 10 – May 11 Software Engineering Student: Kevin Boyd

Internship Company: CDL Systems Ltd

10. May 10 – May 11 Software Engineering Student: Lisa Graham

Internship Company: Arcurve Inc.

11. Sept. 08 ‐ Dec. 09 Software Engineering Student: Adrian Eykens

Internship Company: Autodesk Inc.

12. Sept. 08 ‐ Dec. 09 Software Engineering Student: Matthew Gardner Stevens

Internship Company: IBM Canada Ltd.

13. Sept. 08 ‐ Dec. 09 Software Engineering Student: Graziano Misuraca

Internship Company: Research in Motion

14. Sept. 08 ‐ Dec. 09 Software Engineering Student: Daniel Gill

Internship Company: Autonomy Inc.

15. Sept. 07 ‐ Dec. 08 Computer Engineering Student: Russell James Bandura

Internship Company: Mentor Engineering Inc.

16. Sept. 07 ‐ Dec. 08 Computer Engineering Student: Veasna Chin

Internship Company: Marvell Canada Corp.

17. Sept. 07 ‐ Dec. 08 Computer Engineering Student: Luigi Chi Lu

Internship Company: GE Energy

18. Sept. 07 ‐ Dec. 08 Software Engineering Student: Edward Moriarty

Internship Company: Marvell Canada Corp.

19. Sept. 07 ‐ Dec. 08 Software Engineering Student: Steve Quy Duc Nguyen

Internship Company: Intuit


20. Sept. 07 ‐ Dec. 08 Software Engineering Student: Ian Robert Rutherford

Internship Company: Pason Systems Corp.

21. Sept. 06 ‐ Dec. 07 Student: Michael Chi Kin Yip

Job Title: Programmer Analyst


22. Sept. 06 ‐ Dec. 07 Student: Joshua Taylor Reid

Job Title: Junior Design Engineer / Software Developer

Internship Company: Advanced Flow Technologies Inc.

23. Sept. 06 – Dec. 07 Student: Jaison Christopher Schaab

Job Title: Junior Design Engineer / Software Developer

Internship Company: Advanced Flow Technologies Inc.

3.5 GRANTS

3.5.1 Research Grants

Grant date Grant details

2016‐2018 Project number: 115E805

Project Title: Effective and efficient software test‐code engineering (Etkili ve verimli

yazılım test‐kod mühendisliği)

Grant Type: Starting R&D Projects Funding Program, program #3001 (Başlangıç Ar‐Ge

Projeleri Destekleme Programı)

Grant Agency: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)

Role: PI

2015 Project number: BAP‐6387

Project Title: Software test‐code engineering (Yazılım test‐kod mühendisliği)

Grant Type: Grant in recognition of high citations and scientific impact

Grant Agency: Hacettepe Üniversitesi internal grant (scientific research projects’ support

program, BAP),

Role: PI

2015 Project number: BAP‐6581

Project Title: Testing web applications software (Web uygulama yazılımların testi)

Grant Type: Grant in support of strengthening international research collaborations

Grant Agency: Hacettepe Üniversitesi internal grant (scientific research projects’ support

program, BAP),

Role: PI

2013 Project number: B.14.2.TBT.0.06.01.03.220.01‐12496

Project title: Web application testing and assessment of testing practices in the industry

(Web uygulamalarının testleri ve endüstri test pratikleri)

Grant type: Fellowships for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical, program

#2221 (Konuk veya Akademik İzinli Bilim İnsanı)

Grant agency: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)

Role: Invited researcher

2013‐2014 Project number: #EGP 444884‐12

Project Title: Improving the cost effectiveness of software testing activities and processes

Grant Agency: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Grant Type: NSERC ENGAGE

Industrial Partner: Pason Systems Corp., Calgary, Canada

Amount: $25K

Role: PI


2012‐2013 Project number: #EGP 437020‐12

Project Title: Automated software testing of communication frameworks



Industrial Partner: Telvent Canada Ltd. , Calgary, Canada

Amount: $25K

Role: PI

2012‐2015 Project number: #CRDPJ 414157‐11

Project Title: Tuning of artifact and process parameters towards optimized maintenance


Grant Type: NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) Grants

Industrial Partner: NovAtel Inc. , Calgary, Canada

Amount: $141K per year. My funding share=50%

Role: Co‐investigator

Collaborators: Dr. Guenther Ruhe and NovAtel Inc.

2012 Grant Agency: Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary

Grant Type: Bridge Funding

Amount: $15K

Role: Principal Investigator (PI)

2011 Project number: #EGP 413039‐11

Project Title: Mining repositories for optimized embedded software life‐cycle effort

allocation



Industrial Partner: NovAtel Inc. , Calgary, Canada

Amount: $25K. My funding share=50%


Collaborators: Dr. Guenther Ruhe and NovAtel Inc.

2009‐2011 Project number: #CRDPJ 365295‐08

Project Title: Designing for defect‐intolerant Embedded Systems


Grant Type: Collaborative Research and Development (CRD)

Industrial Partners: Analog Devices Inc.

CDL Systems Ltd.

Ecole dʹingénieurs et dʹarchitectes de Fribourg

DirectVoxx

Amount: $104K per year. My funding share: 10%


Team members: Dr. Mike Smith (PI), Dr. James Miller, Dr. Richard Frayne

2007‐2010 Project number: #200600673

Project Title: Development of intelligent software systems for improving efficiency in oil

pipelines

Grant Agency: Alberta Ingenuity (Government of Alberta)

Grant Type: Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award

Amount: $100K per year


2007‐2012 Project Title: Model‐based testing and analysis of distributed, embedded and real‐time

systems



Grant Type: NSERC Discovery Grant

Amount: $15K per year


2007‐2009 Project Title: Performance analysis and engineering of distributed and real‐time systems

Grant Agency: University Research Services, University of Calgary

Grant Type: University Research Grants Committee (URGC) Starter Grant

Amount: $15K


2006‐2011 Grant Type: Start‐up Grant

Grant Agency: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Schulich School of

Engineering, University of Calgary

Amount: $40K


3.5.2 Other Grants

Grant date Grant details

June 2007 Grant Title: A grant to organize the workshop on Software Engineering in Alberta (SEAB)

Workshop website: www.serg.ucalgary.ca/SEAB/2007

Grant Type: ISPR (ICT Strategy, Planning, and Recruiting)

Grant Amount: $9,200 CND

Grant Agency: The Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (iCORE)

3.6 AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS Date Award/Distinction

May 2015 Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier Journal of Systems & Software,

From the email: “You are awarded this status as you are in the top 10th percentile in terms of the number of

reviews completed for The Journal of Systems & Software in the past two years.”

July 2014 “Above‐threshold” Award (“Eşik Üstü Ödülü”) for the Horizon‐2020 program, awarded by the

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)

May 2012 Selected as a Distinguished Visitor (speaker) for the IEEE Computer Society’s Distinguished Visitors

Program (DVP). Term 2012‐2015

July 2007 Alberta Ingenuity New Faculty Award

2002 Graduate Student Award, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

2000 “Best Software Engineer” Excellence Award, Information Management Systems Software Co., Tehran,

Iran

1996 Ranked 61st in the Iranian nation‐wide University Entrance Competition among about 490,000 students

from all over the nation.

1993‐95 Ranked 1st in East Azerbaijan Province High School Students Scientific Competitions for three

consecutive years, Tabriz, Iran.

4 ACADEMIC SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES

4.1 UNIVERSITY-LEVEL SERVICE ACTIVITIES 2012/2013

o On sabbatical leave

2011/2012

o None 2010/2011


o General Faculties Council (GFC) Committee to Hear and Determine Student Academic Appeals

2009/2010

o Graduate Scholarship Committee, Faculty of Graduate Studies (responsible for reviewing and

ranking NSERC and open scholarships)


2008/2009

o Invited to interview a candidate for a new faculty position in the Department of Computer Science,

December




(starting July 2008)

2007/2008



4.2 FACULTY-LEVEL SERVICE ACTIVITIES 2012/2013

o Research and Scholarship Leave Committee

o Representative to the Faculty Council of the Haskayne School of Business

2011/2012

o Representative of the Schulich School of Engineering to the Council of the Haskayne School of

Business 2010/2011

o Engineering Internship committee 2009/2010

o None 2008/2009

o Collaborated with the organization and presentation of our Software Engineering program in the Schulich

School of Engineering First Year Presentations night, February 11, 2008

2007/2008

o Collaborated with Nima Dorjee, P.Eng., Director of the Engineering Internship Program, in a Software Industry

Information Session for our undergraduate students, November 28

o A member of the “Core Competencies” theme group in the Schulich School of Engineering Education Summit,

May 16, 2008

Participated in a series of discussions with other fellows from the academia and also the industry to

highlight the top core competencies which our Schulich School of Engineering should focus on to

educate and train great engineers for tomorrow.

o Convocation marshal for the Summer 2007 convocation ceremonies, June 11, 2008

Voluntarily served as a Graduate Procession Marshal in the Summer 2007 convocation ceremonies

for the MEng, MSc, and PhD engineering graduates.

4.3 DEPARTMENT-LEVEL SERVICE ACTIVITIES 2012/2013

o Graduation admissions

o Program advertising and student interaction


2011/2012

o Graduation admissions committee o Program advertising and student interaction committee

2010/2011

o Program advertising and student interaction committee

2009/2010

o Graduate Studies committee

o Socials activities committee

o Seminars committee

2008/2009

o Ad‐hoc committee to review the three programs in the department (requested by the Dean of the

Schulich School of Engineering)

o Program Advertising and Student Interaction committee

o IEEE Student Counselor committee

o Undergraduate Studies committee

o Interviewed three candidates for a new faculty position in the area of RF/microwave electronics

and communication, January

o Chair of the departmental striking committee (responsible for recommending faculty members to

faculty and departmental committees for the next academic year)

2007/2008

o Interviewed one candidate for a new faculty position in the area of RF/microwave electronics and

communication, November and December

o Organized and prepared the publicity material for the Software Engineering Research Group

(SERG) to be included in the upcoming departmental research brochure, October

o Organized and led a team effort to prepare and deploy the contents on the LCD displays in the ICT

building to improve the visibility and publicity of the department and its programs, September‐

December

o Provided interaction and answered the questions of undergraduate students in the Departmental

Graduate Tour, Oct. 15, 2008

o A member of the ad‐hoc committee to organize the department’s involvement in the UofC’s annual

campus fair

o A member of the “Program Advertising and Student Interaction” committee

o A member of the “Departmental Meetings Minutes” committee

o A member of the departmental striking committee (responsible for the assignment of faculty

members to committees for the next academic year)

o Departmental library coordinator

o Initiated, organized and led a team effort to update and extend the undergraduate section of the

departmental website: enel.ucalgary.ca/undergraduate/programs, Feb.‐Apr.

o A member of the Software Engineering Faculty hiring (search) committee, Jan.‐Nov.

o Collaborated with Dr. Mahmood Moussavi in preparing advertisement and publicity material (e.g.,

brochures, posters) and also website material for the Software Engineering program, Feb.

2006/2007

o Departmental minutes committee

o Departmental library coordinator

o A member of the Software Engineering Faculty hiring ad‐hoc committee

o Supervised a pilot project on designing a new website for our undergraduate Software Engineering

program which can greatly enhance the publicity of our program, its enrolment, and also increase

the quality of education for our current students. This is similar to other Software Engineering

programs across Canada and also world‐wide.

o A Member of the Software Engineering 5‐year strategic plan sub‐committee, February


Collaborated with Dr. Dietmar Pfahl in preparing the 5‐year strategic plan for our

Software Engineering program and the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG)

based on the feedbacks from the group members.

o Initiator and Coordinator of a Technical report series, since 2007

Initiated and is managing a technical report series for the Software Engineering Research

Group (SERG)

2006

o Website designer and maintainer for the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG), since

October 2006

Designed, implemented and is maintaining a website for the Software Engineering

Research Group (SERG) at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Website address: www.serg.ucalgary.ca

4.4 MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS OF SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, since 2013

http://journal.ieee.ca/vgarousi.html

4.5 CONFERENCE-RELATED ACTIVITIES 2016

o PC member, Euro‐micro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced

Applications (SEAA), two tracks: (1) Systematic Literature Reviews and Mapping Studies

in Software Engineering (SMSE) track, and (2) the Software management track

o PC member, the 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Education

and Training (CSEE&T)

o PC member, Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference – Practice and Research

Techniques (TAIC PART), co‐located with ICST o PC member, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validations (ICST) o PC member, International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems (LT) , co-

located with the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validations (ICST)

o PC member, International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET) 2015

o Co-chair, software testing track, Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS)

o PC member, Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS)

o PC member, 27th IFIP International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS 2015), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

o PC member, 41st Euro‐micro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced

Applications (SEAA)

o PC member, International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET)

o PC member, Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference – Practice and Research

Techniques (TAIC PART), co‐located with ICST o PC member, ICSE Joint Software Engineering Education and Training (JSEET) o PC member, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validations (ICST) o PC member, International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems (LT) , co-

located with the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validations (ICST)

o PC member, Turkish National Information Technologies Conference and CITEX Fair (TBD 32. Ulusal Bilişim Kurultayı ve CITEX 2015 Ankara Bilişim Fuarı)

2014


o PC member, International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Testing (RET) o PC member, International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS), 2014 o PC member, International Workshop on Testing the Cloud (TTC) o PC member, Testing tools track, ICST o PC member, International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), co-located with

the ICSE 2014 o General Chair, Fourth International Workshop on Regression Testing (Regression 2014), co‐

located with ICST 2014 o PC member, International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) o PC member, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) o Testing track chair and PC member, Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium “Ulusal

Yazılım Mühendisliği Sempozyumu” (UYMS) o PC member, GECCO SBSE Track o PC member, International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

(SEKE) o PC member, Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference – Practice and Research

Techniques (TAIC PART), co‐located with ICST 2014

o PC member, CSEE&T

2013 o PC member, PhD Track Program Committee, International Symposium on Search Based Software

Engineering (SSBSE 2013), August 24-26, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia o PC member, International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2013),

August 24-26, 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia o PC member, IEEE CloudCom Requirements Engineering Workshop 2013 o PC member, Turkish National Software Engineering Symposium “Ulusal Yazılım Mühendisliği

Sempozyumu” (UYMS), 2013 o Workshop chair and PC member, International Conference on Testing Software and Systems

(ICTSS), Istanbul, Turkey, Nov 13-15, 2013 o PC member, the Joint Conference of the 23rd International Workshop on Software Measurement

(IWSM) and the 8th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura), Ankara, Turkiye

o PC member, International Conference on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE) o PC member, International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process

Improvement (PROFES) o PC member, Workshop on Testing the Cloud, co-located with the International Symposium on

Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) o PC member, International Workshop on Regression Testing (Regression 2013) o PC member, IEEE International Systems Conference (SysCon) o PC member, IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training

(CSEE&T) o PC member, International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), co-located with

the IEEE International Conference on Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2012

o PC member, International Workshop on Regression Testing (Regression 2012) o PC member, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)

2012 , Special track on Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering o PC member, Workshop on Process-centered approaches for Model-Driven Engineering (PMDE),

Seventh European Conference on Modeling Foundations and Applications o PC member, International Workshop on End-to-end Test Script Engineering (ETSE) o PC member, GECCO SBSE Track o PC member, International Workshop on Load Testing of Large Software Systems (LT 2012) , co-

located with the Fifth International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validations (ICST 2012) in April, 2012 in Montreal

o PC member, International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)


o PhD symposium co-chair, IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2012)

o PC member, International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP) 2011

o PC member, Workshop on Process-centered approaches for Model-Driven Engineering (PMDE), Seventh European Conference on Modeling Foundations and Applications

o Poster committee chair, ESEM 2011 (International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement)

o PC member, International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP), May 21-22, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (co-located with ICSE 2011)

o PC member, International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering, June 15-16, 2011, Tehran, Iran

o PC member, International Workshop on Search-Based Software Testing (SBST), co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST)

o Publicity co-chair, and PC member (both research and industry tracks), International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST)

o PC member, IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T)

2010 o Session chair for the Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE),

July 2010 o Program committee member of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer

Engineering (CCECE), May o Program committee member of the IEEE International Workshop on Model-Based Engineering

for Real-Time Embedded Systems Design (MoBE-RTES), in conjunction with IEEE International Symposium on Object/Component/Service-oriented Real-time distributed Computing (ISORC)

o Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) track

o Program committee member of the International Conference on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE), and also its Student Symposium

o Program committee member of the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP) o Program committee member and North America publicity chair of the 3rd IEEE International

Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), Paris, France o Program committee member of the short papers and posters session of the 11th International

Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES) o Program committee member of the 2nd International Symposium on Search-Based Software

Engineering (SSBSE) 2009

o Program committee member of the Doctoral Symposium of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS) 2009

o Program committee member of the International Workshop on Security, Trust and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA) 2009, in conjunction with the IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

o Program committee member of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) track, July 8-12, 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

o Program committee member of the 1st International Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE), Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, May 13-15, 2009.

o Co-organizer of the first Software Testing Education Workshop (STEW), Wednesday, April 1, 2009, Co-located with the ICST 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA.

o Program committee member an a session chair for the 2nd International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), April 1-4, 2009, Denver, USA

o Publicity Chair, program committee member, and session chair of the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP) 2009, co-located with ICSE 2009 in Vancouver, Canada

2008 o A session chair for the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2008

(CCECE'08), Computer Systems and Applications track, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, May 4-7,


2008 o A session chair for the International Conference on Software Process (ICSP 2008), Leipzig,

Germany (co-located with ICSE 2008), May10-11, 2008 o A session chair for the Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE) track of the Genetic and

Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), July 12-16, 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA o Program committee member of the 3rd Annual Conference of the Association of Software Testing

(CAST), Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 14-16, 2008 o A member of the organizing committee for the NSERC-prairies workshop on "Advanced

Communications & Management of Information", January 25-26, 2008, Calgary, AB o Program committee member of the International Workshop on Security, Trust and Privacy for

Software Applications (STPSA), in conjunction with the IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Turku, Finland

2007 o Co-organizer and co-chair of the workshop on enhancing Software Engineering practices among

Alberta's industry, government, and universities (SEAB), held in Calgary, Alberta. Workshop website: www.serg.ucalgary.ca/SEAB

o Program committee member of the International Workshop on Security, Trust and Privacy for Software Applications (STPSA), in conjunction with the IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Beijing, China

o Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS)

2006 o Program committee member of 2nd International Conference on Trends in Enterprise Application

Architecture (TEAA) o Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) o Reviewer for IEEE/ACM International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and

Systems (MoDELS) o Reviewer for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Search-Based

Software Engineering track 2005

o Paper submissions chair, and Publications chair, for International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS)

o Reviewer for Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Software Testing (A-MOST) - in conjunction with ICSE’2005

o Reviewer for International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2004

o Developed (and is maintaining) the VirtualChair system (a paper submission and reviewing system for conferences, workshops and journals), 2004 - present

o Paper submissions chair for (International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)

4.6 JOURNAL-RELATED ACTIVITIES 2015 2014

o Reviewer for: Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology, two papers Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software

2013 o Reviewer for:

Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology Elsevier Journal on Information Sciences Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software

2012


o Reviewed two chapters for the book “Progressions and Innovations in Model-Driven Software Engineering”

o Reviewer for: Empirical software engineering (EMSE), two papers International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE),

two papers Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology, two papers Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software


Empirical software engineering (EMSE) IEEE Transactions on Education Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software

2010 o Guest editor for the Special Issue of the International Journal of Software Process: Improvement

and Practice, Theme: “Processes to Develop Trustworthy Software” 2009

o Guest editor for the Special Issue of the International Journal of Software Process: Improvement and Practice, Theme: “Processes to Develop Trustworthy Software”

o Reviewer for: IEEE TSE (Special Issue on Search-Based Optimization)


IEEE TSE (Special Issue on Search-Based Optimization) Journal of Information and Software Technology Software Quality Journal

2007 o Member of the board of reviewers, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge

Engineering (IJSEKE) o Reviewer for:

ACM Computing Reviews IEEE Computer Society’s Journal of Computing in Science and Engineering International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering

o Reviewer by the IEEE Software Bookshelf for the following books: Ferdinand Wagner, Ruedi Schmuki, Thomas Wagner, Peter Wolstenholme, "Modeling

Software with Finite State Machines", ISBN-13: 978-0849380860, publisher: Auerback, 2006

Kurt Bittner, Ian Spence, "Managing Iterative Software Development Projects", Addison-Wesley, ISBN-13: 978-0321268891, 2006

Sandy Carter, "The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0", ISBN-13: 978-0131956544, IBM Press, 1st edition, 2007


IEEE Software Bookshelf Wiley Journal on Software Testing, Verification and Reliability IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

2005 and before o Reviewer for:

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

4.7 REVIEWER FOR GRANT PROPOSALS Aprıl 2015: Invited reviewer for two industrial grants funded by Hacettepe University Techno‐park (Teknokent),

Turkey


May 2013: Invited reviewer for a CRD grant applications, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research

Council of Canada (NSERC)

Jan. 2013: Invited reviewer for an internal grant for the American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Dec. 2011‐Jan. 2012: Invited reviewer for three Discovery Grant applications, the Natural Sciences and

Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

Dec. 2009: Inviter Reviewer for a MITACS ACCELERATE Cluster Internship Grant Proposal

October 2008‐Jan. 2009: Invited reviewer for two Discovery Grant applications, the Natural Sciences and

Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

4.8 INVITED TALKS/WORKSHOPS/PANELS

2016

Invited speaker, “A review of career paths, education and learning resources in software testing”, Ankara

Testing Days event (Ankara Test Günleri), May 5, 2016

2015

Invited speaker, ʺIndustry‐academia collaborations in software engineering: a literature review and a practical

approach to ensure successʺ, Doctoral Program on Software and Systems Engineering (SoSE), University of

Oulu, Finland, Oct. 29, 30, 2015

Invited speaker, “Software Test‐Code Engineering (STCE): Developing, verifying and maintaining high‐quality

test scripts”, Ankara Testing Days event (Ankara Test Günleri), June 10, 2015

Invited speaker, “Success stories of industry‐academia collaborations in Software Engineering: Experience from

Canada and Turkey”, Workshop on Dependable Systems (Güvenilirlik çalıştayı), İzmir Institute of Technology

(İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü, İYTE), May 10, 2015, Izmir, Turkey

Keynote speaker, “Success stories of industry‐academia collaborations in Software Engineering: Experience from

Canada and Turkey”, International Symposium on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), Aug.

18, 2015, Tabriz, Iran

2014

Invited speaker, “UML‐Driven Software Performance Engineering”, 1st International Workshop on Advanced

Topics on Software Engineering (ATSEN 2014), November 7, İstanbul Kültür University, İstanbul, Turkey

Invited speaker, “Test Cost‐Effectiveness and Defect Density: A Case Study on the Android Platform”, Mobile

Days, organized by the Bilkent University’s IEEE branch, Ankara, Turkey, April 2014

Invited speaker, “Success stories in Software Testing: A Canadian‐Turkish Perspective”, Ankara Testing Days

event (Ankara Test Günleri), May 2014

2013

Invited speaker, “Test Cost‐Effectiveness and Defect Density: A Case Study on the Android Platform”, Android

Developer Days, Ankara, Turkey, June 14‐15, 2013

Invited speaker, “A Systematic Approach to Software Test Automation and How to Increase its ROI”,

TestIstanbul industry conference, İstanbul, Turkey, May 23‐24, 2013

2012

Invited speaker, “Software Test Automation and its ROI (Return On Investment)”, Invited talk for SMART

Technologies Corporation, Calgary, Nov. 8, 2012

Invited speaker, “Success Stories in Industrial Software Testing Research and Education: A Canadian

Perspective”, Invited talk, Software Testing and Quality Assurance Center (YTKDM), Marmara Research Center,

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (BILGEM, TÜBITAK), Istanbul, Turkey, July 24, 2012


Invited speaker, “Connecting Academia and Software Engineering Industry via Action Research: Achievements

and Experiences Learned in Canada”, Invited talk, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 23, 2012

Invited speaker, “Software Testing Education and Training: How can we train top‐quality Software Test

Engineers?”, IEEE Computer Society ‐ Vancouver Chapter, Vancouver, BC, May 2012

2011


Engineers?”, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, Dec. 26, 2011

Invited speaker, “Practical Software Testing: Linking Industry and Academia”, Middle East Technical University

(METU), Ankara, Turkey, Dec. 25, 2011

Invited speaker, “An Overview of Software Testing Research at the University of Calgary”, IEEE Southern

Alberta Section, University of Lethbridge, September 27, 2011

Invited speaker, ʺBetter Software Testing through University/Industry Collaborationsʺ, Calgary Software Quality

Discussion Group (SQDG), September 20, 2011

Invited panelist, Faculty panel on ʺKeys to Success in Graduate Schoolʺ, ENEL 605 seminar course, University of

Calgary, September 22, 2011

Invited speaker, “GUI Testing Research in the SoftQual Group”, University of Calgary Workshop on GUI

Software Testing, July 27, 2011

Invited panelist, “Teaching Software Testing: Experiences, Lessons Learned & the Path Forward”, IEEE

Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), May 2011, Moderator: W. Eric Wong ,

Panelists: Antonia Bertolino, Vidroha Debroy, Vahid Garousi, Aditya Mathur, Jeff Offutt, Mladen Vouk

2010

Invited speaker, “Metrics and Measurement in Software Testing”, Toronto TesTrek Symposium

(www.qaitestrek.org/2010/), organized by the Quality Assurance International (QAI) Global Institute, Oct. 18‐21,

2010

Invited speaker, “Recent Trends in Software Testing: Opportunities for Industry‐Academia Collaborations”,

YouTube Corporation, San Bruno, California, June 30, 2010

2007 and Before

Invited speaker, “A look at the research activities of the Software Engineering Research Group (SERG) of the

University of Calgary”, The provincial workshop on enhancing Software Engineering practices among Albertaʹs

industry, government, and universities (SEAB), Sept. 2007

“Traffic‐aware Stress Testing of Distributed Systems based on UML Models”

o Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada, June 2006

o Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA, July 2006

o Department of Computer Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada, July 2006

o Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 2006

Invited speaker, “Control Flow Analysis of UML 2.0 Sequence Diagrams and its Applications”, invited

presentation at the Software Engineering Department, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA, October

2005

Invited speaker, “Introduction to Software Testing”, a 2‐day invited workshop presented at Khazar University,

Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan, May 8‐9, 2006

Invited speaker, “Selected Advanced topics in Software Engineering (including Model‐Driven Architecture and

Testing Distributed Real‐Time Systems)”, a 1‐day invited workshop presented at Khazar University, Baku,

Republic of Azerbaijan, May 10, 2006


Invited speaker, “Graduate Studies in Canada”, a 1‐day invited workshop presented at Khazar University, Baku,

Republic of Azerbaijan, May 11, 2006

Invited speaker, “A Survey on the Immigration of Iranian Experts and the Elite: Reasons, Losses and Possible

Solutionsʺ, an invited talk at the 2nd Scientific Seminar on the Discourse of Overseas Iranian Youth, Tehran, Iran,

Dec. 2003

4.9 MEMBERSHIP IN GRADUATE STUDENT THESIS COMMITTEES

4.9.1 Examiner

Date Student name Degree / exam

type

Thesis title Department/

University

May 2016 Ezgi Ertürk PhD final Software defect estimation Hacettepe

University

Dec. 2015 XY Oral proficiency

exam

Health/medical informatics Atilim University

September

2015

İbrahim

Onuralp Yiğit

MSc final Definition of domain specific components in

software product lines based on feature variability

Computer

Engineering, ODTU

September

2015

Yudum Paçin MSc final An Approach for Automated Verification of Web

Applications Using Model Checking and

Replaying the Scenarios of Counterexamples

Informatics

Institute, ODTU

June 2015 Fadime İlisulu MSc final Development of a self‐assessment tool for

business process maturity (ʺiş süreçleri olgunluğu

için bir öz‐değerlendirme aracının geliştirilmesiʺ)

Computer

Engineering,

Hacettepe

University

June 2015 Rana Gönültaş MSc final Run‐time measuring of cosmic functional size via

measurement code instrumentation into java

business applications (ʺCOSMIC işlevsel

büyüklüğün Java iş uygulamalarına ölçme kodu

enstrümantasyonu yoluyla çalışma zamanında

ölçülmesiʺ)

Computer

Engineering,

Hacettepe

University

Nov. 2014 Fatih İşler MSc final Web testing Informatics

Institute, ODTU

September

2014

Ozkan

Bayraktar

PhD final An Automated Statistical Fault Localization

Technique

Informatics

Institute, ODTU

September

2014

İsmail Alper

Sağlam

MSc final Measuring and assessment of well‐known bad

practices in Android application development

Informatics

Institute, ODT

September

2014

Muzaffer Aydın MSc final Testing Android Applications: A Systematic

Mapping

Informatics

Institute, ODT

June 2014 Gülin Nur

Demirparmak

MSc final Software

Engineering, Atilim

University

June 2014 Uğur Öztürk MSc final Software

Engineering, Atilim

University

June 2014 Burak Gökberk

Eyüboğlu MSc course‐based Software

Engineering, Atilim

University

June 2014 Eda Topaloğlu MSc course‐based Software

Engineering, Atilim

University


June 2014 Sinem Güney MSc course‐based Software

Engineering, Atilim

University

June 2014 Yusuf Evren

Aykaç MSc course‐based Software

Engineering, Atilim

University

June 2014 Elif Aydin MSc final Informatics

Institute, ODTU

June 2014 Özge Gürbüz MSc final An Automated Quality Measurement Approach

for Business Process Models

Informatics

Institute, ODTU

June 2014 Banu Aysolmaz PhD final UPROM: A Unified Business Process Modeling

Methodology

Informatics

Institute, ODTU

Jan. 2014 Sasan Abed MSc final Informatics

Institute, ODTU

Dec. 2013 Özge Gürbüz PhD proposal Informatics

Institute, ODTU

Dec. 2013 Elif Aydin PhD proposal Informatics

Institute, ODTU

Aug. 2013 Masoud

Shahmanzari

MSc final Assessing the influence of e‐commerce item

recommender systems on user continuance

intention for future use of recommender system

Informatics

Institute, ODTU

May 2013 Elham Paikari PhD final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Oct. 2012 Joydeep

Mukherjee

MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

July 2012 Albert Tran MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

July 2012 S. M. Didar‐Al‐

Alam

MSc‐to‐PhD‐

transfer seminar

Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

July 2012 Antoine

Widmer

PhD final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

April 2012 (Kiran)

Sachitsing

Dwarkan


U. of Calgary

March

2012

Simon Ferrari MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Nov. 1,

2011

Raoufeh

Hashemian


U. of Calgary

September

2011

Fazlul

Chowdhury

Course‐based

MSc Oral Exam

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

September

2011

Ammar Masri MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

April 2011 Faraz Rasheed PhD final Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

Feb. 2011 Ahmed Al‐

Emran

PhD final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Dec. 2010 Elham Paikari PhD Candidacy

Oral and Written

Exam

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Nov. 2010 Song Zhang MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

June 2010 Amir Kalbasi MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary


June 2010 Jamie Starke MSc final Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

Feb. 2010 Antoine

Widmer

PhD Candidacy

Oral and Written

Exam

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Nov. 2009 Kendall (Kai)

Hu


U. of Calgary

August

2009

Ajay

Gopinathan

PhD Candidacy

Exam

Optimal and Incentive Compatible Multicast Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

June 2009 Andrew Kwan MSc final Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

May 2009 Mehrnoush

Alemzadeh


U. of Calgary

March

2009

Abhinav

Akshay

MSc final A Language to Model Service Level Agreements

(SLAs) for Utility Data Centers

Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

January

2009

Ahmed Al‐

Emran

PhD Candidacy

Oral and written

Exam

Simulation for Operational Release Planning Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

September

2008

Jialin Shen MSc final Development of a Software Effort and Cost

Estimation Tool based on FEMSEC (Formal

Economic Model of Software Engineering Cost)

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

August

2008

Mohammad

Khabbazhaye

Tajer

MSc final XML Document Classification using Structural

and Textual Features

Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

August

2008

Hamed‐reza

Motahhari

MSc final Improved drilling efficiency technique using

integrated PDM and PDC bit parameters

Department of

Chemical and

Petroleum Eng., U.

of Calgary

July 2008 James Blake

Ambler

MSc, course‐

based degree,

oral defense

Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

April 2008 Jim McElroy PhD candidacy

exam

Time‐dependent Release Planning Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

Apr. 2008 Tony Khoo MSc final System Architecture Modeling using UML and

Real‐Time Process Algebra

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Mar. 2008 Mitra

Shirmohammadi

MSc final Geometric Modeling with L Systems Department of CS,

U. of Calgary

Dec. 2007 Vani

Mudigonda

Master of

Software

Engineering

(MEng), course‐

based degree

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Dec. 2007 Antoine Widner MSc final Multi‐sensory Integration for Intuitive Interaction

within Virtual Environments

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

June 2007 Mahnaz Shams MSc final A Model‐based Approach for Performance

Testing of Web Applications

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

May 2007 Vani

Mudigonda

Master of

Software Eng.

(MEng)

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Feb. 2007 Srikanth Jujjuru Master of

Software Eng.

(MEng)

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Jan. 2007 Sergey Kiselev Master of

Software Eng.

(MEng)

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary


Dec. 2006 Ahmed Al‐

Emran

MSc final Dynamic Re‐planning of Software Releases Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Nov. 2006 Samuel Lee Master of

Software Eng.

(MEng)

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

Oct. 2006 Kujinder

Khatkar

Master of

Software Eng.

(MEng)

Department of ECE,

U. of Calgary

4.9.2 Neutral Chair

May 20, 2011 Neutral chair for PhD Candidacy Oral Exam

Student: Seyed Hossein Hejazi

Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary

Nov. 2010 Neutral chair for PhD Candidacy Oral Exam

Student: Milton Castro

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary

September 9, 2010 Neutral chair for MSc Final Oral Exam

Student: Peng Xie

Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary

July 26, 2010 Neutral chair for MSc oral exam

Student: Y. Pan

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Eng., University of Calgary

April 7, 2010 Neutral chair for PhD Final Oral Exam

Student: Sidantha Weerakone

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary

December 14, 2009 Neutral chair for PhD Candidacy Oral Exam

Student: Junjie Liu



Student: Shimaa El‐Sherif


June 19, 2009 Neutral chair for MSc oral Exam

Student: James O. Arukhe

Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary


Student: Mohammad Aflaki


December 4, 2008 Neutral chair for PhD Final Oral Exam

Student: Zainab Syed


November 28, 2008 Neutral chair for MSc Final Oral Exam

Student: Abdel Rahman M. A. Muhsen


July 12, 2007 Neutral chair for MSc oral exam

Student: Donghua Yao

Department of Geomatics Eng., University of Calgary


Feb. 16, 2007 Neutral chair for PhD oral exam

Student: Yang Ju

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Eng., University of Calgary

4.9.3 Supervisory Committee

July 20153‐ Member of PhD Supervisory Committee

Student: Rana Ozakinci

Topic: A software defect prediction model that uses qualitative and quantitative methods

together

Department of Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University

June 2013‐ Member of PhD Supervisory Committee

Student: Elif Aydın

Topic: System engineering size measurement approach

School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University (METU)

June 2013‐ Member of PhD Supervisory Committee

Student: Özge Gürbüz

Topic: A methodology to develop domain ontology from organizational guidelines

School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University (METU)

May 2012‐July 2014 Member of PhD Supervisory Committee

Student: S. M. Didar‐Al‐Alam

Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary

Oct. 2010‐May 2013 Member of PhD Supervisory Committee

Student: Elham Paikari


Jan.‐Oct. 2009 Member of PhD Supervisory Committee

Student: Shelly Park

Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary

4.10 MEMBERSHIP IN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PROJECT COMMITTEES

April 13, 2007 Student: Michael Rhett Dickson

Independent examiner for the 4th year project presentation

Project title: An Empirical Evaluation of Aspect‐oriented design pattern Evolvability


4.11 RESEARCH-RELATED SOFTWARE DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT For details or to download these software tools, refer to www.softqual.ucalgary.ca/sw_tools.html

2011 EmbeddedGear: An embedded software controller for vehicle automatic gear control

(Blackfin platform)

2011 AutoETF: Automated Embedded Traceability Framework

2010 AutoBBUT: Automated generator of test code for black‐box unit testing

2009 TeCRevis: A Graph‐Based Test Coverage and Test Redundancy Visualization Plug‐in for

Eclipse IDE

2009 IssuePlayer: A dashboard tool aimed at project managers overseeing software development.

2006 BDAnalyzer: UML model‐based behavioral dependency analyzer and visualization

2005 GARUS: Genetic Algorithm‐based test Requirement tool for real‐time distribUted Systems


2004 VirtualChair: An open‐source paper submission and reviewing system for conferences,

workshops and journals

4.12 MEDIA APPEARANCES AND NEW RELEASES

Nov. 2007 UofCʹs OnCampus magazine

Subject: Pipeline researchers get Alberta Ingenuity funding

More at: www.ucalgary.ca/news/uofcpublications/oncampus/biweekly/nov9‐07/pipeline

Nov. 2007 News release published by the ʺAlberta Ingenuity Fundʺ about my recent research grant and

award

Subject: The Fossil’s Journey: Making Alberta’s oil pipelines more efficient as they carry oil

across thousands of rugged kilometers

More at: www.albertaingenuity.ca/news_detail.aspx?itemid=234

Aug. 2006 Interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)ʹs Azerbaijani service, based in

Prague, Czech Republic

Subject: Young Azerbaijani Professor ‐ Comparing Higher Education in Canada and

Azerbaijan

Aug. 2004 Interview with Radio Farda, based in Los Angeles, USA

Subject: The Knowledge Diffusion Network (www.knowdiff.net), in which I was a member

of the board of directors (BoD).

Aug. 2004 Interview with Radio Farda, based in Los Angeles, USA

Subject: The problem of brain drain in Iran

Mar. 2004 Interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)ʹs Farsi service

Subject: The brain drain problem in Iran

Jan. 2004 Live 1‐hour interview with Iranʹs 3rd National TV

Subject: A paper of mine on the issue of immigration of Iranian experts

4.13 OTHER EXTERNAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES 2014

o Invited reviewer for draft of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 (Software Testing Standard)

www.softwaretestingstandard.org

o Invited examiner (subject matter expert) for “Real Time Systems “, the Association of Professional

Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

2013

o Invited examiner (subject matter expert) for “Real Time Systems “, the Association of Professional

Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

o Invited jury member for the undergraduate software engineering projects contest (,n Turkish:

Yazılım Projeleri Yarışması), organized by the TÜBİTAK, June 2013

2012

o August 2012: Exam developer and examiner for the subject of “Real Time Systems” for the

Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

o August 2012: Invited evaluator of an application for tenure (university name is not disclosed due to

confidentiality)

2008

o Since March 2008: Chair of the Computer Chapter (C16), IEEE South Alberta Section

o May‐Dec. 2008: Managed a team effort to prepare the instructional manual (exercise solutions) for

the textbook “Foundations of Software Testing”, by Aditya Mathur, Pearson Ed.

o Reviewer for the textbook “Foundations of Software Testing”, by Aditya Mathur, Pearson Ed.

(invited by the author)


o August 2008: Was nominated as a consultant for the Ontario Council on Graduate Studies (OCGS)

assessment of University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)ʹs proposed new PhD in

Electrical and Computer Engineering program

5 INDUSTRIAL/CONSULTING ACTIVITIES AND EXPERTISE

5.1 CONSULTING PROJECTS Timeline Client Project Title

2016‐ Innova IT Solutions (İnnova Bilişim

Çözümleri) A.Ş., Ankara, Turkey

Software test process improvement, test automation improvement

2015‐ HAVELSAN A.Ş., Ankara, Turkey Implementation of test automation for several test groups

Assessing and improving an in‐house test automation

framework

Establishing a systematic, effective and efficient GQM‐based

measurement program for the testing directorate

Assessment and improvement of maturity of test processes and

practices using TMMI and TPI‐Next

Bi‐directional knowledge transfer from/to international venues

and organizations in the aviation industry

2013 Department for Turks Abroad and

Relative Societies (Yurtdışı Türkler ve

Akraba Topluluklar Başkanlığı),

Ankara, Turkey

Software performance engineering, static code analysis, and web

usability assessment of a major web‐based application

2013 Bantrel Construction Management

Corp., Calgary, Canada

Development of an automation software for pre‐engineered steel

buildings and structures

2011 Pembina Pipelines, Calgary, Canada

5.2 INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS/COLLABORATIONS (PAST AND PRESENT) HAVELSAN A.Ş.

Arçelik A.Ş.

Berner & Mattner Systemtechnik GmbH

NovAtel Inc., Calgary, Canada (2011‐2013)

Pason Systems Corporation, Calgary, Canada (2012‐2013)

Telvent Canada Ltd. , Calgary, Canada (2012‐)

MR Control Systems International Inc., Calgary, Canada (2009‐2011)

Pembina Pipelines, Calgary, Canada (2008‐2010)

Optimal Solutions Ltd., Calgary, Canada (2007‐2009)

Enbridge Inc., Calgary, Canada (2007‐2008)

Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, USA (2004‐2006)

IBM Research, Ottawa, Canada (2005‐2006)

Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada (2001‐2003)

Atlantis Consulting Group Inc., Montreal, Canada (1999‐2001)

5.3 INVITED TALKS/WORKSHOPS/PANELS

2013

Invited speaker, “A Systematic Approach to Software Test Automation and How to Increase its ROI”,

TestIstanbul industry conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23‐24, 2013

2012


Invited speaker, “Software Test Automation and its ROI (Return On Investment)”, Invited talk for SMART

Technologies Corporation, Calgary, Nov. 8, 2012

Invited speaker, “Success Stories in Industrial Software Testing Research and Education: A Canadian

Perspective”, Invited talk, YTKDM (Software Testing and Quality Assurance Center), Scientific and

Technological Research Council of Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey (BILGEM, TÜBITAK), July 24, 2012


Engineers?”, IEEE Computer Society ‐ Vancouver Chapter, Vancouver, BC, May 2012

2011

Invited speaker, ʺBetter Software Testing through University/Industry Collaborationsʺ, Calgary Software Quality

Discussion Group (SQDG), September 20, 2011

2010

Invited speaker, “Metrics and Measurement in Software Testing”, Toronto TesTrek Symposium

(www.qaitestrek.org/2010/), organized by the Quality Assurance International (QAI) Global Institute, Oct. 18‐21,

2010

Invited speaker, “Recent Trends in Software Testing: Opportunities for Industry‐Academia Collaborations”,

YouTube Corporation, San Bruno, California, June 30, 2010

5.4 EXECUTIVE POSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Chair of the IEEE Computer Chapter in Southern Alberta, April 2009‐Dec. 2012

Student Branch Counselor for the IEEE South Alberta Section (SAS), 2008‐2009

5.5 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, since 2005

Registered Professional Engineer with both the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), and the

Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), since 2008

Information Society Technologies ‐ Europe Canada (IST‐EC), since 2006


6 TEACHING AND TRAINING SERVICES

6.1 TEACHING IN HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY (2015-)

6.1.1 Undergraduate Level

Research Methods in Software Engineering (BİL 762): Fall 2015 (15 students)

6.1.2 Graduate Level

Software Engineering (BBM 382): Fall 2016 (95 students)

Software Quality Assurance (BBM 482): Fall 2016 (35 students)

Introduction to Programming I (BBM 101): Fall 2015 (25 students)

6.2 TEACHING IN ATILIM UNIVERSITY (2013-2014)


Senior Project (SE / COMPE / ISE 494): Fall 2014 (30 students)

Software Project Management (SE 320): Spring 2014 (52 students)


Software Engineering (SE 550): Fall 2014 (17 students), Spring 2014 (15 students)

Research Methods in Software Engineering (SE 600): Fall 2014 (10 students)

Mobile Software Engineering (SE 570): Spring 2014 (19 students)

Advanced Software Project Management (SE 552): Fall 2013 (15 students)

Software Quality Management (SE 554): Fall 2013 (15 students)

6.3 TEACHING IN THE MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY (METU) (2013)


Design Patterns (IS 524): Spring 2013

Graduate Seminar (IS 590): Spring 2013

Introduction to Software Testing (IS 724): Spring 2013

Mobile Software Engineering: Fall 2013

6.4 TEACHING IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (2006-2012)


Programming Fundamentals (ENCM 339): Fall 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

Software Testing (SENG 437): Winter 2012, 2011, 2010

Software Reliability and Testing (SENG 521): Winter 2009

Component‐Based Software Engineering (SENG 501.01): Winter 2008, 2007

Embedded and Real‐Time Systems (ENSF 413): Fall 2007

Principles of Computer Architecture (ENCM 501): Fall 2006


Advanced Software Testing (SENG 639, formerly SENG 607.22): Winter 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008

Reading Courses:

o GUI Software Testing (ENSF 619.07): Summer 2010

o Multi‐objective Optimization Using Evolutionary Algorithms (ENSF 619.60): Summer 2009

o Experimental Software Engineering (SENG 607.23): Summer 2008


6.5 TEACHING CERTIFICATES

Nov. 2008 Faculty Teaching Certificate (FTC)

Teaching & Learning Centre, University of Calgary

Sept. 2007 Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW)

Teaching & Learning Centre, University of Calgary

6.6 CORPORATE TRAINING Provided customized training courses for corporate clients via my consulting company and also for the public through

the UofC Continuing Education (ContEd).

Course topics include: Ajax, Agile development, software testing, object‐oriented programming, and database

fundamentals. Details can be provided upon request.

7 OTHER

7.1 PUBLIC SERVICE Vice president and board member of the Alberta Azerbaijani Cultural Society (ALACS), 2009‐2012

7.2 CITIZENSHIP Canadian, Iranian

7.3 SPOKEN LANGUAGES English Fluent

Azerbaijani Fluent (mother tongue)

Turkish Fluent

Farsi (Persian) Fluent

German and French Very basic

Arabic Basic

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