Mahmood Niazi

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1993-2025
Publications (10 Years): 43

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Inf. Softw. Technol.

J. Softw. Evol. Process.

IEEE Access

EASE

Publications

Affan Yasin, Rubia Fatima, Lijie Wen, Jiangbin Zheng, Mahmood Niazi
What goes wrong during phishing education? A probe into a game-based assessment with unfavorable results. Entertain. Comput. 52 (2025)
Reem Alshareef, Esra'a Alshabeeb, Noor Alakkas, Mahmood Niazi
Challenges in Developing Secure Software within Agile Environments. EASE (2024)
Mona Albinali, Mahmood Niazi
The Security Culture Readiness Model (SCRM) for Saudi Universities: A Preliminary Structure. EASE (2024)
Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Valtteri Lahtinen, Marko Paavola, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammed Naif Alatawi, Shoayee Dlaim Alotaibi
Agile meets quantum: a novel genetic algorithm model for predicting the success of quantum software development project. Autom. Softw. Eng. 31 (1) (2024)
Azzah A. Alghamdi, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood
Organizations' readiness for insider attacks: A process-oriented approach. Softw. Pract. Exp. 54 (8) (2024)
Gulzar Alam, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mahmood Niazi, Saad Zafar
Maturity model for secure software testing. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 36 (5) (2024)
Faisal Alnaseef, Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Irfan Ahmad
Towards a successful secure software acquisition. Inf. Softw. Technol. 164 (2023)
Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Mahdi Fahmideh, Peng Liang, Muhammad Waseem, Aakash Ahmad, Mahmood Niazi, Pekka Abrahamsson
AI Ethics: An Empirical Study on the Views of Practitioners and Lawmakers. IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst. 10 (6) (2023)
Mamoona Humayun, Mahmood Niazi, Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
Toward a readiness model for secure software coding. Softw. Pract. Exp. 53 (4) (2023)
Azzah A. Alghamdi, Mahmood Niazi
Toward Successful Secure Software Deployment: An Empirical Study. EASE (2023)
Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Muhammad Waseem, Mahdi Fahmideh, Aakash Ahmad, Peng Liang, Mahmood Niazi, Pekka Abrahamsson
AI Ethics: Software Practitioners and Lawmakers Points of View. CoRR (2022)
Arif Ali Khan, Mahdi Fahmideh, Aakash Ahmad, Muhammad Waseem, Mahmood Niazi, Valtteri Lahtinen, Tommi Mikkonen
Embracing iterations in Quantum software: a vision. QP4SE@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE (2022)
Arif Ali Khan, Pekka Abrahamsson, Mahmood Niazi
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques. Inf. Softw. Technol. 152 (2022)
Azzah A. Alghamdi, Mahmood Niazi
Challenges of Secure Software Deployment: An Empirical Study. EASE (2022)
Arif Ali Khan, Sher Badshah, Peng Liang, Muhammad Waseem, Bilal Khan, Aakash Ahmad, Mahdi Fahmideh, Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar
Ethics of AI: A Systematic Literature Review of Principles and Challenges. EASE (2022)
Habib Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Mohamed El-Attar, Naveed Ikram, Siffat Ullah Khan, Asif Qumer Gill
Empirical Investigation of Critical Requirements Engineering Practices for Global Software Development. IEEE Access 9 (2021)
Arif Ali Khan, Sher Badshah, Peng Liang, Bilal Khan, Muhammad Waseem, Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar
Ethics of AI: A Systematic Literature Review of Principles and Challenges. CoRR (2021)
Ismail Mohamed Keshta, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb
Towards the implementation of requirements management specific practices (SP 1.1 and SP 1.2) for small- and medium-sized software development organisations. IET Softw. 14 (3) (2020)
Lanjing Wang, Yasir Ali, Shah Nazir, Mahmood Niazi
ISA Evaluation Framework for Security of Internet of Health Things System Using AHP-TOPSIS Methods. IEEE Access 8 (2020)
Mahmood Niazi, Ashraf Mohammed Saeed, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Saad Zafar
A maturity model for secure requirements engineering. Comput. Secur. 95 (2020)
Hassan Al-Matouq, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, Mahmood Niazi
A Maturity Model for Secure Software Design: A Multivocal Study. IEEE Access 8 (2020)
Mohammad Alshayeb, Haris Mumtaz, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Niazi
Improving the Security of UML Sequence Diagram Using Genetic Algorithm. IEEE Access 8 (2020)
Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb
GLOB: A global project management readiness framework. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 32 (12) (2020)
Asif Qumer Gill, Ghassan Beydoun, Mahmood Niazi, Habib Ullah Khan
Adaptive Architecture and Principles for Securing the IoT Systems. IMIS (2020)
Haris Mumtaz, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Niazi
A survey on UML model smells detection techniques for software refactoring. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 31 (3) (2019)
Ahmad Abdellatif, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sami Zahran, Mahmood Niazi
A measurement framework for software product maturity assessment. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 31 (4) (2019)
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Mahmood Niazi, Shahid Hussain, Mohammad Shameem
GSEPIM: A roadmap for software process assessment and improvement in the domain of global software development. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 31 (1) (2019)
Jawad Javed Akbar Baig, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, Mahmood Niazi
Package-Level stability evaluation of object-oriented systems. Inf. Softw. Technol. 116 (2019)
Asif Qumer Gill, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Mahmood Niazi
Scaling for agility: A reference model for hybrid traditional-agile software development methodologies. Inf. Syst. Frontiers 20 (2) (2018)
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Shahid Hussain, Mahmood Niazi, Suzanne Kieffer
Systematic literature study for dimensional classification of success factors affecting process improvement in global software development: client-vendor perspective. IET Softw. 12 (4) (2018)
Talat Ambreen, Naveed Ikram, Muhammad Usman, Mahmood Niazi
Empirical research in requirements engineering: trends and opportunities. Requir. Eng. 23 (1) (2018)
Ismail Mohamed Keshta, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb
Towards Implementation of Process and Product Quality Assurance Process Area for Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Sized Software Development Organizations. IEEE Access 6 (2018)
Haris Mumtaz, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Niazi
An empirical study to improve software security through the application of code refactoring. Inf. Softw. Technol. 96 (2018)
Yusuf Mufti, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood
A Readiness Model for Security Requirements Engineering. IEEE Access 6 (2018)
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Mahmood Niazi, Shahid Hussain, Awais Ahmad
Systematic literature review and empirical investigation of barriers to process improvement in global software development: Client-vendor perspective. Inf. Softw. Technol. 87 (2017)
Sajjad Mahmood, Sajid Anwer, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb, Ita Richardson
Key factors that influence task allocation in global software development. Inf. Softw. Technol. 91 (2017)
Nabil M. Mohammed, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood
Exploring software security approaches in software development lifecycle: A systematic mapping study. Comput. Stand. Interfaces 50 (2017)
Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, Abdulrahman Ahmed Bobakr Baqais, Asif Qumer Gill
Motivators for adopting social computing in global software development: An empirical study. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 29 (8) (2017)
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Mahmood Niazi, Shahid Hussain, He Zhang
Systematic Literature Reviews of Software Process Improvement: A Tertiary Study. EuroSPI (2017)
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky W. Keung, Mahmood Niazi, Shahid Hussain
Towards a hypothetical framework of humans related success factors for process improvement in global software development: systematic review. SAC (2017)
Ismail Mohamed Keshta, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb
Towards Implementation of Requirements Management Specific Practices (SP1.3 and SP1.4) for Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Sized Software Development Organizations. IEEE Access 5 (2017)
Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, Mohammed Rehan Riaz, Kanaan Faisal, Narciso Cerpa, Siffat Ullah Khan, Ita Richardson
Challenges of project management in global software development: A client-vendor analysis. Inf. Softw. Technol. 80 (2016)
Javed Iqbal, Rodina Binti Ahmad, Mohd Hairul Nizam Md. Nasir, Mahmood Niazi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Muhammad Asim Noor
Software SMEs' unofficial readiness for CMMI®-based software process improvement. Softw. Qual. J. 24 (4) (2016)
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A comparative study of software process improvement implementation success factors. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 27 (9) (2015)
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Teaching global software engineering: experiences and lessons learned. IET Softw. 9 (4) (2015)
Amer Rasheed, Uffe Kock Wiil, Mahmood Niazi
Evaluating PEVNET: A Framework for Visualization of Criminal Networks. MISNC (2015)
Mahmood Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Alshayeb, Ayman Hroub
Empirical investigation of the challenges of the existing tools used in global software development projects. IET Softw. 9 (5) (2015)
Sajjad Mahmood, Sajid Anwer, Mahmood Niazi, Mohammad Alshayeb, Ita Richardson
Identifying the factors that influence task allocation in global software development: preliminary results. EASE (2015)
Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Naveed Ikram, Mahmood Niazi
What makes service oriented requirements engineering challenging? a qualitative study. IET Softw. 8 (4) (2014)
June M. Verner, O. Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Mahmood Turner, Mahmood Niazi
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: A tertiary study. Inf. Softw. Technol. 56 (1) (2014)
Salma Imtiaz, Muneera Bano, Naveed Ikram, Mahmood Niazi
A tertiary study: experiences of conducting systematic literature reviews in software engineering. EASE (2013)
Mahmood Niazi, Naveed Ikram, Muneera Bano, Salma Imtiaz, Siffat Ullah Khan
Establishing trust in offshore software outsourcing relationships: an exploratory study using a systematic literature review. IET Softw. 7 (5) (2013)
Mahmood Niazi, Naveed Ikram, Asif Qumer Gill, Mohammed Rafi Ul Hassan
Editorial. IET Softw. 7 (6) (2013)
Mahmood Niazi, Mohamed El-Attar, Muhammad Usman, Naveed Ikram
GlobReq: A framework for improving requirements engineering in global software development projects: Preliminary results. EASE (2012)
Mohamed El-Attar, Khaldoun Halawani, Moustafa Alsaleh, Mahmood Niazi
Are Use Case Modeling Features Underutilized? - A Lightweight Survey that Raises Concerns. ENASE (2012)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
Empirical investigation of success factors for offshore software development outsourcing vendors. IET Softw. 6 (1) (2012)
June M. Verner, O. Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi
Systematic literature reviews in global software development: A tertiary study. EASE (2012)
Muneera Bano, Salma Imtiaz, Naveed Ikram, Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Usman
Causes of requirement change - A systematic literature review. EASE (2012)
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An exploratory study of software process improvement implementation risks. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 24 (8) (2012)
Usman Nasir, Mahmood Niazi
Cloud computing adoption assessment model (CAAM). PROFES Workshops (2011)
Mahmood Niazi, Mark Turner
Guest Editorial: Special section on the selected papers from 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2010). Inf. Softw. Technol. 53 (6) (2011)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
Barriers in the selection of offshore software development outsourcing vendors: An exploratory study using a systematic literature review. Inf. Softw. Technol. 53 (7) (2011)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
Factors influencing clients in the selection of offshore software outsourcing vendors: An exploratory study using a systematic literature review. J. Syst. Softw. 84 (4) (2011)
Barbara A. Kitchenham, Rialette Pretorius, David Budgen, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen G. Linkman
Systematic literature reviews in software engineering - A tertiary study. Inf. Softw. Technol. 52 (8) (2010)
Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar, June M. Verner
Software Process Improvement barriers: A cross-cultural comparison. Inf. Softw. Technol. 52 (11) (2010)
Barbara A. Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen G. Linkman, Rialette Pretorius, David Budgen
Refining the systematic literature review process - two participant-observer case studies. Empir. Softw. Eng. 15 (6) (2010)
Mark Staples, Mahmood Niazi
Two case studies on small enterprise motivation and readiness for CMMI. PROFES (2) (2010)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi
A preliminary structure of software outsourcing vendors' readiness model. PROFES (2) (2010)
Muneera Bano, Naveed Ikram, Mahmood Niazi
Thesis proposal on "Requirement Engineering Process for Service Oriented Software Development". PROFES (2) (2010)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Naveed Ikram
Software Development Outsourcing Relationships Trust: A Systematic Literature Review Protocol. EASE (2010)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
Critical Success Factors for Offshore Software Development Outsourcing Vendors: An Empirical Study. PROFES (2010)
Karl Cox, Mahmood Niazi, June M. Verner
Empirical study of Sommerville and Sawyer's requirements engineering practices. IET Softw. 3 (5) (2009)
Barbara A. Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, Mark Turner, Mahmood Niazi, Stephen G. Linkman, Rialette Pretorius, David Budgen
The impact of limited search procedures for systematic literature reviews A participant-observer case study. ESEM (2009)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
Critical Barriers for Offshore Software Development Outsourcing Vendors: A Systematic Literature Review. APSEC (2009)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
Critical Success Factors for Offshore Software Development Outsourcing Vendors: A Systematic Literature Review. ICGSE (2009)
Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar
Identifying high perceived value practices of CMMI level 2: An empirical study. Inf. Softw. Technol. 51 (8) (2009)
Mark Staples, Mahmood Niazi
Systematic review of organizational motivations for adopting CMM-based SPI. Inf. Softw. Technol. 50 (7-8) (2008)
Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Nolin Mark Katugampola
Demotivators of software process improvement: an empirical investigation. Softw. Process. Improv. Pract. 13 (3) (2008)
Muhammad Ali Babar, Mahmood Niazi
Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners' Views. ICGSE (2008)
Mahmood Niazi, Karl Cox, June M. Verner
A measurement framework for assessing the maturity of requirements engineering process. Softw. Qual. J. 16 (2) (2008)
Mahmood Niazi, Charles Hickman, Rashid Ahmad, Muhammad Ali Babar
A Model for Requirements Change Management: Implementation of CMMI Level 2 Specific Practice. PROFES (2008)
Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar, Suhaimi Ibrahim
An Empirical Study Identifying High Perceived Value Practices of CMMI Level 2. PROFES (2008)
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
A Readiness Model for Software Development Outsourcing Vendors. ICGSE (2008)
Mark Staples, Mahmood Niazi, D. Ross Jeffery, Alan Abrahams, Paul Byatt, Russell Murphy
An exploratory study of why organizations do not adopt CMMI. J. Syst. Softw. 80 (6) (2007)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi
Organisational Readiness and Software Process Improvement. PROFES (2007)
Mark Staples, Mahmood Niazi
Experiences using systematic review guidelines. J. Syst. Softw. 80 (9) (2007)
Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar
De-motivators of Software Process Improvement: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners' Views. PROFES (2007)
Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar
Motivators of Software Process Improvement: An Analysis of Vietnamese Practitioners' Views. EASE (2007)
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Software Process Improvement: A Road to Success. PROFES (2006)
Mark Staples, Mahmood Niazi
Experiences Using Systematic Review Guidelines. EASE (2006)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi
Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An Empirical Study. PROFES (2006)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi
Critical success factors for software process improvement implementation: an empirical study. Softw. Process. Improv. Pract. 11 (2) (2006)
Muhammad Ali Babar, Mahmood Niazi, D. Ross Jeffery
Assessing a Framework of Comparing Architecture Review Methods Using CMMI. SEKE (2005)
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An Instrument for Measuring the Maturity of Requirements Engineering Process. PROFES (2005)
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An Empirical Study for the Improvement of Requirements Engineering Process. SEKE (2005)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi
A framework for assisting the design of effective software process improvement implementation strategies. J. Syst. Softw. 78 (2) (2005)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi
A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study. J. Syst. Softw. 74 (2) (2005)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi, Bernard Wong
A Model for the Implementation of Software Process Improvement: An Empirical Study. PROFES (2004)
Mahmood Niazi, David Wilson, Didar Zowghi
Critical barriers for software process improvement implementation: An empirical study. IASTED Conf. on Software Engineering (2004)
Mahmood Niazi, Sudha Shastry
Critical Success Factors for the Improvement of Requirements Engineering Process. Software Engineering Research and Practice (2003)

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