Associate Professor Sebastian Ng

Administrative Responsibilities

• Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Science (Information Technology)
• Subject Convenor, HIT2631 Software Engineering
• Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Science (Information Technology)

Qualifications

• BSc(Hons) (HKU)
• CertEd (HKU)
• GradDipAppSci(CompSci) (SUT)
• MIT (SUT)
• PhD (HKU)

Research Interests

• Software Testing and Reliability
• Education in Software Engineering and Software Testing

Recent Publications

• T.Y. Chen, D.D. Grant, M.F. Lau, S.P. Ng and V.R. Vasa, “BEAT: A Web-Based Boolean Expression Fault-based Test Case Generation Tool”, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, Vol. 4(2), pp44-56, 2006
• T.Y. Chen, F.C. Kuo, R.G. Merkel, S.P. Ng, “Mirror Adaptive Random Testing” , Information and Software Technology, Vol. 46(15), pp1001-1010, 2004
• S.P. Ng, T. Murnane, K. Reed, D. Grant and T.Y. Chen, “A Preliminary Survey on Software Testing Practices in Australia”, Proceedings of 2004 Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2004), pp116-125, April 2004
• Y.T. Yu, S.P. Ng, P.L. Poon and T.Y. Chen, “On the Testing Methods used by Beginning Software Testers”, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 46(5), pp329-335, 2004
• T.Y. Chen, F.C. Kuo, R.G. Merkel and S.P. Ng, “Mirror Adaptive Random Testing”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC2003), pp4-11, Nov. 2003
• Y.T. Yu, S.P. Ng and E.Y.K. Chan, “Generating, Selecting and Prioritizing Test Cases from Specifications with Tool Support”, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC2003), pp83-90, Nov. 2003
• T.Y. Chen, D.D. Grant, M.F. Lau, S.P. Ng and V.R. Vasa, “BEAT: Boolean Expression Fault-based Test Case Generator”, Proceedings of First IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE2003), pp625-629, Aug 2003
• M.F. Lau, T.Y. Chen and S.P. Ng, “Fault Detecting Capability and Test Suite Reduction for Boolean Specifications: an Empirical Evaluation”, Proceedings of the First ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Applications (SERA’03), pp64-64-69, June 2003
• Y.T. Yu, S.P. Ng, P.L. Poon and T.Y. Chen, “On the Use of the Classification-Tree Method by Beginning Software Testers”, Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing”, pp1123-1127, March 2003
• S.P. Ng, F.C. Kuo, R.G. Merkel and T.Y. Chen, “On the Effectiveness of Genetic Operators in Adaptive Random Testing”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2002, Oct. 2002
• T.Y. Chen and S.P. Ng, “Teaching Software Testing Through the Development of an Automated Testing System”, In Proceedings of the Applied Informatics 2002 - International Symposium on Software Engineering, Databases, and Applications, pp149-152, Feb. 2002
• S. P. Ng, T. Y. Chen, and M. F. Lau, ''Relationship between the probabilities of detecting at least one failure for test case selection with and without replacement'', In Proceedings of International Symposium on Future Software Technology 2001, pp. 165-170, Nov. 2001

Teaching Areas

• Database
• Software Engineering
• Software Project Management
• Software Testing and Reliability

Academic Discipline

• Computer Science and Software Engineering

Home Page

• Personal Home Page