University Professor, Software Engineer, Software Testing Evangelist, Consultant
Dr. Vahid Garousi (Spelling in Azərbaycanca: Vəhid Gəruslu)
University Professor / Scientist [since 2006]
Software Engineer, Software Testing / QA Evangelist, Consultant, Coach and Trainer [since 1998]
Azerbaijani Turkish-Canadian, living in the UK
Areas of Expertise:
Software Engineering
Software Testing and Software Quality Assurance (QA)
Empirical Software Engineering
Improving Productivity in Software Engineering
Value-based software engineering
Software-engineering process improvement
Action-research
Industry-academia collaborations
Engineering (development of) scientific software (research software)
Research Goal and Approach:
Together with my collaborators, we develop approaches, tools, and processes to help software engineers engineer (develop and test) software intensive-systems in a more effective and efficient manner; and we conduct empirical studies to assess those approaches, tools, and processes.
We conduct applied Software Engineering (SE) research by ensuring (practical) relevance of software engineering research.