Musyrifah Mahmod

Universiti Utara Malaysia | UUM · School of Computing

Recent growth in the digital economy system has triggered Malaysia to venture into crowdsourcing initiatives. Most crowdsourcing platforms focuses on micro-digital tasks that can be performed and completed online. However, there is an increasing trend of spatial crowdsourcing platform that required the specific-location of tasks to be conducted phy...

Meta-Heuristic Search Techniques (MHST) recently have become among of the popular techniques applied in software testing research particularly in supporting Automated Test Data Generation (ATDG). MHST are generally defined as high-level frameworks to carry out the most optimal test data searching for efficient software testing so as to achieving ef...

Crowdsourcing is an initiative implemented by the Malaysian government to support its National Key Result Area (NKRA) agenda to improve the lives of citizens with low household income in the B40 group. Crowdsourcing activities are done on mobile crowdsourcing platforms that enable workers to perform micro tasks at any time for a fixed payment. Howe...

Crowdsourcing is one of the initiatives implemented by the Malaysian government to improve the quality of life for people with low household income. Since Malaysia is just starting to roll out this crowdsourcing initiative, examining the intricate relationships of motivational factors is an important beginning step towards sustaining the usage of t...

Automatic Programming Assessment (or APA) has commonly been applied in computer science education in assisting educators to effectively mark and grade students’ programming assignments, and hence significantly reducing the workload of educators. APA is one of the methods that require test data generation as its integral part. This study attempts to...

Automatic Programming Assessment (or APA) has been known as an important method to automatically mark and grade students' programming exercises. It has been gaining a lot of attention from many researchers either to emphasize on the aspect of static analysis or dynamic testing (functional and structural testing). To date, not many recent studies at...

Crowdsourcing allows organizations and individuals to tap into a large pool of people to accomplish tasks. Recent growth in crowdsourcing has triggered Malaysia to venture into crowdsourcing initiatives. This study intends to assess the performance of crowdsourcing platforms in Malaysia using the Web of System Performance (WOSP) model. The results...

The South East Asia (SEA) region is a melting pot of diverse culture and arts. This region is rich with local products which possess potentials to be marketed to a wider market. However, local entrepreneurs have limited access to financial aids and know-how to achieve this. In this paper, a model which fosters collaboration among local entrepreneur...

The Open Source Software (OSS) Innovation process is no more a foreign face in the software development community as it is increasingly being used as a platform for modern software innovation both in the commercial and software research community. Although the concept of freedom is mostly prominent with the OSS innovation process, less than 2% of t...

The popularity of Open Source Software (OSS) is increasing as a platform for modern software innovation with the prominent concept of “freedom”. Freedom in OSS innovation is similar to freedom of speech not in term of price. However, less than 2% of the contributors are women in OSS innovation. Minorities including women are often ignored in OSS in...

In recent years, the popularity of Open Source Software Community (OSSC) as a platform for modern software innovation has increased tremendously, both in commercial and software research community. Although the concept of freedom is mostly prominent with OSSC, less than 2% of the contributors are women in this male dominated area. Minorities includ...