Software Engineering Research Centre (SERC)
Software Research Engineering Centre is dedicated to conducting research and development in various facets of software engineering. The centre has been established to promote theoretical research in the software engineering area, resolve problems faced by the software industry, and help establish software engineering practices in the industry. Through the establishment of the SERC, the University seeks to help and support the local software industry in establishing and improving their processes and practices through continuous feedback and training. SERC aims to achieve these objectives by collecting the industry data to understand productivity, cost, and quality parameters. This will hopefully also help in developing more suitable process and lifecycle models for different types of projects being undertaken by our local industry in the offshore and distributed environment. In the past, this Centre has arranged many seminars and workshops in the software engineering domain to encourage and promote academia-industry collaboration. Current research focuses on areas such as empirical software engineering, software cost estimation, software project management, and requirements engineering.
Past Projects
- DISC – Design using integrated software chips
- Development and analysis of a new Object to Relational Mapping technique
- Mining code repositories for automatic detection of bad smells in the code
- An Empirical Study to Analyse the Impact of Testing and Code Inspections on Overall Productivity
- Small - Separated Modelling and Language for meta-modelling
Recent Publications
- Humaira Aslam Chughtai, Zeeshan Ali Rana, People Profile Metrics for Improved Classification of Defect Prone Files in Open Source Projects, In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS 2020), 17 - 19 February 2020, Lahore, Pakistan
- Shahzad Ali and Zeeshan Ali Rana, “Evaluating Performance of Software Defect Models Using Area Under Precision-Recall Curve (AUC-PR)”, 2nd International Conference on Advancements in Computational Sciences (ICACS 2019), February 2019, Lahore – Pakistan.
- Nosheen Qamar and Ali Afzal Malik, “Birds of a Feather Gel Together: Impact of Team Homogeneity on Software Quality and Team Productivity”, IEEE Access, Volume 7, Issue 1, July 2019.
- Nosheen Qamar and Ali Afzal Malik, “Evaluating the Impact of Pair Testing on Team Productivity and Test Case Quality – A Controlled Experiment”, Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 25, July 2019.