• Dr. Umar Farooq Assistant Professor

    • suf.cs@uok.edu.in

My current research is mainly focused on investigating and improving ways for developing quality software. I am currently involved in solving software engineering problems largely by leveraging artificial intelligence in software testing domain. The main focus is on automating testing by minimizing the human effort involved in the process. Moreover, I will also continue to strengthen my existing focal areas of my research like using concept of transfer learning in defect prediction and evaluating test methods for improving the efficacy (effectiveness and efficiency) of the testing process. As a part of collaborative research, I also continue research in software engineering education area wherein we largely investigate the key challenges and possible solutions for better engineering education.

To date, this research has led 32 Refereed papers published in International Journals and Conference Proceedings. Two Books and one book chapter has also been published by me in reputed international and national publishing houses. I have an h-index of 12 and my articles have been cited 528 times on Google Scholar.  

I was General Chair of Conference on Software Engineering and Data Sciences (CoSEDS 2018) organized by North Campus, University of Kashmir. Besides i am co-organizer of Workshop on Software Engineering Education (WESEE) since its inception in 2018. I was Track Chair of ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) to be held at 15th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC 2022), Feb 24-26, 2022 at DA-IICT Gandhinagar, India. 

Besides being member of ACM, I am the Senior member of various software engineering societies like SIGSE, IACSIT SES, IAENG SES. I also serve as a reviewer for various journals indexed in WoS and Scopus.I also served in several program committees like A-Test 2015,A-Test 2016, IndiaCom 2017 etc.



Faculty Details




Citations
528
HIndex
12
i10 Index
15
Administrative Position
Coordinator, Department of Computer Sciences; Coordinator Research (North Campus)
Resume
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Research Papers Published

  • "Empirical Evaluation of Software Testing Techniques in an Open Source Fashion" 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, ACM, 36(2): 21 -25 Impact Factor=
  • "A replicated empirical study to evaluate software testing methods" Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 29(9): 1 -22 {ISSN: 2047-7481} Impact Factor= 1.033
  • "Gap between Academia and Industry: A case of three testing techniques" International Journal of System Assurance and Management, 10(6): 1487 -1504 {ISSN: 0976-4348} Impact Factor=
  • "An Improved Method for Training Data Selection for Cross-Project Defect Prediction" Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 0(0): DOI No. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369 {ISSN: 2191-4281} Impact Factor= 2.334
  • "Local modelling approach for cross-project defect prediction" Intelligent Decision Technologies, 15(4): DOI No. 10.3233/IDT-210130 {ISSN: 1875-8843} Impact Factor=
  • "Transformers for GUI Testing: A Plausible Solution to Automated Test Case Generation and Flaky Tests" IEEE Computer, 55(3): DOI No. DOI:10.1109/MC.2021.3136791 {ISSN: 1558-0814} Impact Factor= 2.683
  • "Using deep learning for selenium web UI functional tests: A case-study with e-commerce applications" Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 117(1): DOI No. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enga {ISSN: 1873-6769} Impact Factor= 7.802
  • "A deep learning-based automated framework for functional User Interface testing" Information and Software Technology, 150(1): DOI No. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infs {ISSN: 1873-6025} Impact Factor= 3.862
  • "Transformers for GUI Testing: A Plausible Solution to Automated Test Case Generation and Flaky Tests" IEEE Computer, 55(3): 64 -73 {ISSN: 1558-0814} Impact Factor= 2.256
  • "An empirical evaluation of defect prediction approaches in within-project and cross-project context" Software Quality Journal, 0(0): DOI No. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219 {ISSN: 1573-1367} Impact Factor= 1.813

Books Published

  • "Test Cloud Before Cloud Test, n Modern Software Engineering Methodolgies for Mobile and Cloud Environements". IGI Global, USA. {ISBN: 2327-3453} pp 13

Research Scholars:

NameCourseStatusNature
Nayeem Ahmad BhatPh.D Awarded Whole Time
Zubair KhaliqPh.D Awarded Whole Time

Research Projects Details:

Title of the ProjectFunding AgencyDatedAmount (in Rs.)
Design and Development of Standard Framework for Evaluating Software Testing Techniques in an Open Source FashionUGC30-09-2017600,000.00
Education during CoVID-19 Pandemic and BeyondJK DST01-08-2020240,000.00
Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (Intelligent Software Engineering)RUSA 2.031-12-202019,000,000.00
Artificial Intelligence Research CentreRUSA31-12-202110,000,000.00
BBBP – An Empirical Investigation of its effectiveness and reach in UT of J&KIndian Council of Social Science Research11-09-20231,000,000.00

Teaching:

DepartmentSubjectCourse TaughtSemester
North Campus Computer SciencesMasters in Computer Applications (MCA)Database Systems1
North Campus Computer SciencesMCADatabase Systems1
North Campus Computer SciencesMasters in Computer Applications (MCA)Software Engineering2
North Campus Computer SciencesMasters in Computer Applications (MCA)Software Engineering2
North Campus Computer SciencesMasters in Computer Applications (MCA)Fundamentals of Programming with C3
North Campus Computer SciencesMasters in Computer Applications (MCA)Project Work4