Umar Iftikhar

Doctoral student

Department of Software Engineering, Room J2608

As a PhD student in the DIPT department, my research interests include analysis of Software code quality and maintainability. Before joining BTH, I have over a decade long industry experience in the field of systems design and development. Academically, I hold a Master’s degree in Systems engineering and BS in Computer Sciences.

Projects & Publications

Recent publications
Umar Iftikhar, Nauman bin Ali, Jürgen Börstler, Muhammad Usman, "A tertiary study on links between source code metrics and external quality attributes", Information and Software Technology, ISSN 0950-5849, EISSN 1873-6025, Vol. 165, Elsevier, 2024
Umar Iftikhar, Jürgen Börstler, Nauman bin Ali, Oliver Kopp, "Identifying prevalent quality issues in code changes by analyzing reviewers' feedback", 2024
Umar Iftikhar, "Towards Measuring & Improving Source Code Quality", Blekinge Institute of Technology Licentiate Dissertation Series, ISSN 1650-2140, EISSN 12154, EISSN 2024:02, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2024
Umar Iftikhar, Nauman bin Ali, Jürgen Börstler, Muhammad Usman, "A catalog of source code metrics – a tertiary study", Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, ISSN 1865-1348, EISSN 1865-1356, EISSN 472, Software Quality, Springer, 2023
Umar Iftikhar, Jürgen Börstler, Nauman bin Ali, "On potential improvements in the analysis of the evolution of themes in code review comments", Proceedings - 2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2023, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023