Ph.D. Students
The research programme has a total of seven Ph.D. students of which five are doctoral students and tvo are industrial Ph.D. students. All of them have formal subprojects and each subproject is managed by a senior researcher in the project.
Wasif Afzal 
Wasif Afzal is a PhD student in Software Engineering at the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He received his degree of Master of Science with a major in Software Engineering - specialized in Management in 2007. His research area is search-based software verification and validation.
Subproject description - Search-based software verification and validation
Sebastian Barney
Sebastian Barney is a Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology with Honours Class 1 from the University of New South Wales in Australia. His main area of research is to develop a value-based model that allows companies to better align investment decision in software development with a company and/or product strategy. Further research interests include value-based software engineering, requirements engineering and management aspects of software engineering.
Subproject description - R&D responsibility
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Nina D. Fogelström is a Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. She received her degree of Master of Science with a major in Software Engineering - specialized in Management in 2002. Her research area is large scale software management, related to strategically managing large quantities of products and product requirements. Further research interests include software product management, software quality, economic issues in software development, and software process management.
Subproject description - Requirements engineering for market-driven software product development
Mahvish Khurum
Mahvish Khurum is a Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at the School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. She received her degree of Master of Science with a major in Software Engineering - specialized in Management in 2007. Her research area is Strategic software engineering which touches both software engineering and industrial technology and management. A strategic decision enables better planning and the best trade-off with respect to project cost, schedules, functional contents and quality objectives. These factors contribute to the creation of customer value and profit for the company but there are also associated risks that must be dealt with. To be able to efficiently deliver customer benefit and value for the end users of a product, system or service it is required that the development is organized as software solution lines, i.e. planned development of multiple solutions based on a common core asset. Achieving this objective requires knowledge about organizations, decision points, processes and technologies.
Subproject description - Strategic software engineering
Shahid Mujtaba
Shahid Mujtaba is an Industrial Ph.D student at Ericsson AB and Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He did his Master's in Software Engineering, specializing in Management. His research area focuses on investigating and developing ways to help software organizations optimize their customization-based production flow and increase product customization capacity. The research is grounded on the current needs and improvement program of the research partner company partner company.
Subproject description - Product Line Engineering and Product Customizations
Kai Petersen
Kai Petersen is an industrial Ph.D. student
at Ericsson and School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden since October 2007. Before that, he worked as a research assistant at the Software Systems Engineering research group at University of Duisburg-Essen in the area of service oriented architectures and software product lines. He received his degree of Master of Science in Software Engineering in 2006 from Blekinge Institute of Technology. His current research is in the area of software productivity. That is, his research focuses on identifying ways of how to measure the actual software productivity and to develop a "what-if" tool which supports to determine the impact of development process changes on software productivity.
Subproject description - Software productivity
Jeff Winter
Jeff Winter is a Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at the
School of Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He studied computer science at Blekinge Institute of Technology and received his degree of Master of Science with a major in Computer Science in 2003. Since then he has worked as a project assistant and lecturer at BTH. The research is conducted at UIQ Technology AB and deals with use-orientated design and estimation for a creative software development process. His focus at present is on designing and evaluating a usability test package, together with the company. Additionally, he is examining the role played by the tester and where and how the results of the usability testing are used within the company.
Subproject description - Use orientation for innovation and quality in mobile application development
