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Associate Professor Amjed Tahir PhD, SI^NZ

Senior Lecturer

Doctoral Supervisor
School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences

Most of my research is empirical in nature, and I am a big supporter of the open science initiative. Most of my research uses open data, contributes publicly accessible data, and ensures that our research software is accessible as open source. Read more here.  

 

 

I undertake research in empirical software engineering, with a special interest in software (source code) quality and maintenance and in software testing. I am also interested in open-source software and how to improve the quality of such systems. Please visit our Software Engineering and Analytics Group page for more information about our research activities.

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Professional

Contact details

  • Location: 3.29, Science Tower B
    Campus: Manawatu

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - University of Otago (2016)

Fellowships and Memberships

  • Member, Software Innovation New Zealand (Member) (2017)

Prizes and Awards

  • College of Science Research Award (Early Career) - Massey University (2023)
  • Distinguished Reviewer Award - IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023) (2023)
  • Distinguished Paper Award - IEEE TCSE - International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021) (2021)
  • Distinguished Reviewer Award - IEEE International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021) (2021)
  • Best Paper Award - The 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2018) (2018)
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  • The Distinguished Artifact award at ECOOP 2017 - European Conference on Object Oriented Programming (ECOOP) (2017)
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Research Expertise

Research Interests

I am interested in several areas of Empirical Software Engineering including (but not limited to): software testing, software maintenance, reengineering and evolution, data analytics (through mining software repertories), and other software quality topics. My current research focuses on understanding software systems, and more precisely, understanding the quality of tests written by developers. I'm also studying fault and change prediction models. 

For prospective postgraduate students: If you are interested in postgraduate studies (Master, PhD) in software engineering and would like to join us at Massey, please send me an email with details of your proposed research idea and your previous qualifications/experience. Please visit my private page for information about my current postgraduate students

I am currently working on the following active projects (with students and collaborators): 

1) understanding sources of non-deterministic behaviour of software tests (i.e., test flakiness)

2) assessing the reliability of existing bug prediction models and their applicability in real life projects.

3) studying the real impact of code smells and anti-patterns in real software development. 

4) quantifying the sources of unsoundness in static program analysis.

5) implementing custom static analysis to detect DoS vulnerabilities in composite data structures.

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Computer Software (080300): Information And Computing Sciences (080000): Programming Languages (080308): Software Engineering (080309)

Research Projects

Completed Projects

Project Title: NSC - Proofing Code Reuse: Detecting Errors in Publicly Available Software

Date Range: 2021 - 2022

Funding Body: University of Otago

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Project Title: NSC - Novel approach to detect and predict tests with non-deterministic behaviour

This project aims to understand the causes of test flakiness, provide empirical evidence of new patterns of flaky tests and their classifications, and develop a novel technique that is able to identify and predict flaky tests with a high-level of accuracy and scalable to large programs
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Date Range: 2021 - 2023

Funding Body: Callaghan Innovation

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Project Title: Towards better and more reliable software bugs prediction

Date Range: 2018 - 2018

Funding Body: Massey University

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Project Title: NSC - Closing the gaps in Static Program Analysis

There is a recent increase in awareness that more research on soundness of static code analysis is needed. Real-world programming languages are full of features that have been designed to boost programmer productivity, but are notoriously difficult to capture by existing static analyses (due to their dynamic nature). As a result, most static code analyses are unsound. This project aims at addressing the following questions: (1) Can we quantify the unsoundness of existing static analyses? (2) Which features in modern programs cause unsoundness, and to what extent? (3) Which methods exist or can be invented to precisely model features causing unsoundness?
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Date Range: 2017 - 2019

Funding Body: Callaghan Innovation

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Research Outputs

Journal

Fu, Y., Liang, P., Tahir, A., Li, Z., Shahin, M., Yu, J., . . . Chen, J. (2025). Security Weaknesses of Copilot-Generated Code in GitHub Projects: An Empirical Study. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. 34(8)
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Tsunoda, M., Kudo, T., Monden, A., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Toda, K., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2025). On the Application of Bandit Algorithm for Selecting Clone Detection Methods. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E108D(7), 718-722
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Tsunoda, M., Shima, R., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Monden, A., Toda, K., . . . Nakasai, K. (2025). Selecting Source Code Generation Tools Based on Bandit Algorithms. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E108.D(7), 723-726
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Fedorov, N., Yamasaki, Y., Tsunoda, M., Monden, A., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., . . . Nakasai, K. (2025). Building Defect Prediction Models by Online Learning Considering Defect Overlooking. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E108.D(3), 170-174
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Murakami, Y., Yamasaki, Y., Tsunoda, M., Monden, A., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., . . . Nakasai, K. (2025). The Impact of Defect (Re) Prediction on Software Testing. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E108.D(3), 175-179
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Fawzy, A., Tahir, A., Galster, M., & Liang, P. (2025). Exploring data management challenges and solutions in agile software development: a literature review and practitioner survey. Empirical Software Engineering. 30(3)
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Aktar, MS., Liang, P., Waseem, M., Tahir, A., Ahmad, A., Zhang, B., . . . Li, Z. (2025). Architecture decisions in quantum software systems: An empirical study on Stack Exchange and GitHub. Information and Software Technology. 177
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Tahir, A., Rasheed, S., Dietrich, J., Hashemi, N., & Zhang, L. (2023). Test flakiness’ causes, detection, impact and responses: A multivocal review. Journal of Systems and Software. 206
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Ndukwe, IG., Licorish, SA., Tahir, A., & MacDonell, SG. (2023). How have views on Software Quality differed over time? Research and practice viewpoints. Journal of Systems and Software. 195
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Han, X., Tahir, A., Liang, P., Counsell, S., Blincoe, K., Li, B., . . . Luo, Y. (2022). Code smells detection via modern code review: a study of the OpenStack and Qt communities. Empirical Software Engineering. 27(6)
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Bennin, KE., Tahir, A., MacDonell, SG., & Börstler, J. (2022). An empirical study on the effectiveness of data resampling approaches for cross-project software defect prediction. Iet Software. 16(2), 185-199
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Licorish, SA., Galster, M., Kapitsaki, GM., & Tahir, A. (2022). Understanding students’ software development projects: Effort, performance, satisfaction, skills and their relation to the adequacy of outcomes developed. Journal of Systems and Software. 186
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Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Xiao, X., & MacDonell, SG. (2021). Does class size matter? An in-depth assessment of the effect of class size in software defect prediction. Empirical Software Engineering. 26(5)
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HAYAKAWA, T., TSUNODA, M., TODA, K., NAKASAI, K., TAHIR, A., BENNIN, KE., . . . MATSUMOTO, K. (2021). A novel approach to address external validity issues in fault prediction using bandit algorithms. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E104D(2), 327-331
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Hayakawa, T., Tsunoda, M., Toda, K., Nakasai, K., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2021). A Novel Approach to Address External Validity Issues in Fault Prediction Using Bandit Algorithms. IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems. E104.D(2), 327-331 Retrieved from https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/transinf/E104.D/2/E104.D_2020EDL8098/_article
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Tahir, AR., Neethirajan, S., Jayas, DS., Shahin, MA., Symons, SJ., & White, NDG. (2007). Evaluation of the effect of moisture content on cereal grains by digital image analysis. Food Research International. 40(9), 1140-1145
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Tahir, A., Dietrich, J., Counsell, S., Licorish, S., & Yamashita, A. (2020). A large scale study on how developers discuss code smells and anti-pattern in Stack Exchange sites. Information and Software Technology. 125
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Meldrum, S., Savarimuthu, BTR., Licorish, S., Tahir, AAA., Bosu, M., & Jayakaran, P. (2017). Is knee pain information on YouTube videos perceived to be helpful? An analysis of user comments and implications for dissemination on social media. Digital Health. 3, 1-18
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Danesh, AS., Ahmad, R., Saybani, MR., & Tahir, A. (2012). Companies approaches in software release planning- Based on multiple case studies. Journal of Software. 7(2), 471-478
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Tahir, A., Ahmad, R., & Kasirun, ZM. (2010). Maintainability dynamic metrics data collection based on aspect-oriented technology. Malaysian Journal of Computer Science. 23(3), 177-194
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Conference

MacDonell, S., & Tahir, A.(2025). Message from the General Chairs. In Proceedings 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution Icsme 2025
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Hashemi, N., Tahir, A., Rasheed, S., Shi, A., & Blagojevic, R. (2025). Detecting and Evaluating Order-Dependent Flaky Tests in JavaScript. 2025 IEEE Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Icst 2025. (pp. 13 - 24).
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Blagojevic, R., Tahir, A.
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Hamamoto, K., Tsunoda, M., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Monden, A., Toda, K., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2024). An Empirical Study of the Impact of Test Strategies on Online Optimization for Ensemble-Learning Defect Prediction. Proceedings 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution Icsme 2024. (pp. 642 - 647).
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Nakao, M., Hamamoto, K., Tsunoda, M., Tahir, A., Toda, K., Monden, A., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2024). On Applying Bandit Algorithm to Fault Localization Techniques. Proceedings 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops Issrew 2024. (pp. 111 - 112).
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Majdinasab, V., Bishop, MJ., Rasheed, S., Moradidakhel, A., Tahir, A., & Khomh, F. (2024). Assessing the Security of GitHub Copilot's Generated Code-A Targeted Replication Study. Proceedings 2024 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis Evolution and Reengineering Saner 2024. (pp. 435 - 444).
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Counsell, S., Swift, S., & Tahir, A. (2023). An '80-20' Approach to the Study of Coupling. Proceedings 2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications Seaa 2023. (pp. 219 - 222).
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Yamasaki, Y., Fedorov, N., Tsunoda, M., Monden, A., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., . . . Nakasai, K. (2023). Software Defect Prediction by Online Learning Considering Defect Overlooking. Proceedings 2023 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshop Issrew 2023. (pp. 43 - 44).
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Tahir, A.
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Yu, J., Fu, L., Liang, P., Tahir, A., & Shahin, M. (2023). Security Defect Detection via Code Review: A Study of the OpenStack and Qt Communities. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.
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Rasheed, S., Dietrich, J., & Tahir, A. (2023). On the Effect of Instrumentation on Test Flakiness. Proceedings 2023 IEEE ACM International Conference on Automation of Software Test Ast 2023. (pp. 123 - 127).
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Kudo, T., Tsunoda, M., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Toda, K., Nakasai, K., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2022). Preliminary Analysis of Review Method Selection Based on Bandit Algorithms. Proceedings Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference APSEC. Vol. 2022-December (pp. 492 - 496).
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Dietrich, J., Rasheed, S., & Tahir, A. (2022). Flaky Test Sanitisation via On-The-Fly Assumption Inference for Tests with Network Dependencies. Proceedings 2022 IEEE 22nd International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation Scam 2022. (pp. 264 - 275).
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Hashemi, N., Tahir, A., & Rasheed, S. (2022). An Empirical Study of Flaky Tests in JavaScript. Proceedings 2022 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution Icsme 2022. (pp. 24 - 34).
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Tabo, T., Kudo, T., Tsunoda, M., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Toda, K., . . . Monden, A. (2022). Clone Detection Method Selection Based on Bandit Algorithm: a Preliminary Analysis. Proceedings 2022 IEEE 16th International Workshop on Software Clones Iwsc 2022. (pp. 53 - 54).
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Fu, L., Liang, P., Rasheed, Z., Li, Z., Tahir, A., & Han, X. (2022). Potential Technical Debt and Its Resolution in Code Reviews: An Exploratory Study of the OpenStack and Qt Communities. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. (pp. 216 - 226).
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Tsunoda, M., Monden, A., Toda, K., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Nakasai, K., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2022). Using Bandit Algorithms for Selecting Feature Reduction Techniques in Software Defect Prediction. Proceedings 2022 Mining Software Repositories Conference MSR 2022. (pp. 670 - 681).
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Sui, L., Rasheed, S., Tahir, A., & Dietrich, J. (2022). A Study of Single Statement Bugs Involving Dynamic Language Features. IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension. Vol. 2022-March (pp. 494 - 498).
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Asano, T., Tsunoda, M., Toda, K., Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Nakasai, K., . . . Matsumoto, K. (2021). Using Bandit Algorithms for Project Selection in Cross-Project Defect Prediction. Proceedings 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution Icsme 2021. (pp. 649 - 653).
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Rasheed, S., Dietrich, J., & Tahir, A. (2021). Caught in the Web: DoS Vulnerabilities in Parsers for Structured Data. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Vol. 12972 LNCS (pp. 67 - 85).
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Counsell, S., Swift, S., & Tahir, A. (2021). Where the Bugs are: A Quasi-replication Study of the Effect of Inheritance Depth and Width in Java Systems. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol. 1439 CCIS (pp. 459 - 472).
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Han, X., Tahir, A., Liang, P., Counsell, S., & Luo, Y. (2021). Understanding Code Smell Detection via Code Review: A Study of the OpenStack Community. IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension. Vol. 2021-May (pp. 323 - 334).
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Stringer, J., Tahir, A., Blincoe, K., & Dietrich, J. (2020). Technical lag of dependencies in major package managers. Proceedings Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference APSEC. Vol. 2020-December (pp. 228 - 237).
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Shcherban, S., Liang, P., Tahir, A., & Li, X. (2020). Automatic identification of code smell discussions on stack overflow: A preliminary investigation. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.
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Rodina, A., Amjed, T., & Zarinah, MK.An empirical assessment of the use of different communication modes for requirement elicitation and negotiation using students as a subject. 2012 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Informatics Isci 2012. (pp. 70 - 74).
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Tahir, AR., Neethirajan, S., Jayas, DS., & Paliwal, J.Assessment of machine vision algorithm for quantification of foreign matter in wheat. 2006 Asabe Annual International Meeting.
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Shahin, MA., Symons, SJ., Schepdael, LV., & Tahir, AR.Three dimensional seed shape and size measurement with orthogonal cameras. 2006 Asabe Annual International Meeting.
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Sui, L., Dietrich, J., Tahir, A., & Fourtounis, G. (2020). On the recall of static call graph construction in practice. Proceedings International Conference on Software Engineering. (pp. 1049 - 1060).
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Rasheed, S., Dietrich, J., & Tahir, A. (2019). Laughter in the wild: A study into DoS vulnerabilities in YAML. Proceedings 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering Trustcom Bigdatase 2019. (pp. 342 - 349).
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Dietrich, J., Pearce, D., Stringer, J., Tahir, A., & Blincoe, K. (2019). Dependency versioning in the wild. IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories. Vol. 2019-May (pp. 349 - 359).
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Yukizawa, U., Tsunoda, M., & Tahir, A. (2019). Please Help A Preliminary Study on the Effect of Social Proof and Legitimization of Paltry Contributions in Donations to OSS. Saner 2019 Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 26th International Conference on Software Analysis Evolution and Reengineering. (pp. 609 - 613).
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Tahir, A., Bennin, KE., Macdonell, SG., & Marsland, S. (2018). Revisiting the size effect in software fault prediction models. International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement.
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Tahir, A., Yamashita, A., Licorish, S., Dietrich, J., & Counsell, S. (2018). Can you tell me if it smells? A study on how developers discuss code smells and anti-patterns in Stack Overflow. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. Vol. Part F137700
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Sui, L., Dietrich, J., Emery, M., Rasheed, S., & Tahir, A. (2018). On the Soundness of Call Graph Construction in the Presence of Dynamic Language Features - A Benchmark and Tool Evaluation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Vol. 11275 LNCS (pp. 69 - 88).
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Sui, L., DIetrich, J., & Tahir, A. (2017). On the Use of Mined Stack Traces to Improve the Soundness of Statically Constructed Call Graphs. Proceedings Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference APSEC. Vol. 2017-December (pp. 672 - 676).
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Tahir, A., Licorish, SA., & MacDonell, SG. (2017). Feature Evolution and Reuse - An Exploratory Study of Eclipse. Proceedings Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference APSEC. Vol. 2017-December (pp. 582 - 587).
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Counsell, S., Hall, T., Shippey, T., Bowes, D., Tahir, A., & MacDonell, S. (2017). Assert use and defectiveness in industrial code. Proceedings 2017 IEEE 28th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops Issrew 2017. (pp. 20 - 23).
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Dietrich, J., Sui, L., Rasheed, S., & Tahir, A. (2017). On the construction of soundness oracles. Soap 2017 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on State of the Art in Program Analysis Co Located with PLDI 2017. (pp. 37 - 42).
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Dietrich, J., Jezek, K., Rasheed, S., Tahir, A., & Potanin, A. (2017). Evil pickles: DoS attacks based on object-graph engineering. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Lipics. Vol. 74 (pp. 101 - 1032).
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Tahir, A., Counsell, S., & MacDonell, SG. (2016). An empirical study into the relationship between class features and test smells. 2016 23RD ASIA-PACIFIC SOFTWARE ENGINEERING CONFERENCE (APSEC 2016). (pp. 137 - 144).
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Tahir, A., Counsell, S., & MacDonell, SG. (2016). An Empirical Study into the Relationship between Class Features and Test Smells. Proceedings Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference APSEC. Vol. 0 (pp. 137 - 144).
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Yamashita, A., Moonen, L., Mens, T., & Tahir, A. (2016). Report on the First International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics (TDA 2016). Ceur Workshop Proceedings. Vol. 1771 (pp. 58 - 63).
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Licorish, SA., Tahir, A., Bosu, MF., & MacDonell, SG. (2015). On satisfying the android OS community: User feedback still central to developers' portfolios. Proceedings 2015 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference ASWEC 2015. (pp. 78 - 87).
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Tahir, A., & MacDonell, SG. (2015). Combining dynamic analysis and visualization to explore the distribution of unit test suites. International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics Wetsom. Vol. 2015-August (pp. 21 - 30).
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Tahir, A., MacDonell, SG., & Buchan, J. (2014). Understanding class-level testability through dynamic analysis. Enase 2014 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. (pp. 38 - 47).
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Tahir, A., & MacDonell, SG. (2012). A systematic mapping study on dynamic metrics and software quality. IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance Icsm. (pp. 326 - 335).
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Tahir, A., Ahmad, R., & Mohd Kasirun, Z. (2010). An empirical study on the use of standards and procedures in software development projects. Icste 2010 2010 2nd International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering Proceedings. Vol. 1 (pp. V1274 - V1278).
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Tahir, A., & Ahmad, R. (2010). Requirement engineering practices - An empirical study. 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering Cise 2010.
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Tahir, A., & Ahmad, R. (2010). An AOP-based approach for collecting software maintainability dynamic metrics. 2nd International Conference on Computer Research and Development Iccrd 2010. (pp. 168 - 172).
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Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

I am the Software Engineering Subject Leaser (Major Leader) at Massey University. I mostly teach the following courses : 

159251 Software Engineering Design and Construction

159356 Software Engineering Capstone Project

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 3 1
Co-supervisor 0 1

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Ahmed Mohamed - Doctor of Philosophy
    Vibe Coding - Understanding Practices, Challenges and Risks of AI-Assisted Software Development
  • Ruofan Gao - Doctor of Philosophy
    Detecting and Repairing Bugs in AI-Generated Code
  • Negar Hashemi - Doctor of Philosophy
    Identifying and Mitigating Flaky Tests in JavaScript

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • 2021 - Li Sui - Doctor of Philosophy
    An investigation into the unsoundness of static program analysis

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2021 - Shawn Rasheed - Doctor of Philosophy
    Security Analyses for Detecting Deserialisation Vulnerabilities

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Last updated on Friday 16 May 2025