software testing PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Dr R Alexander

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research areas. Automated and Model-Driven Software Engineering; Autonomous and self-adaptive systems; Cyber Physical Systems;. Safety of autonomous and self-adaptive systems; Software engineering; Software testing.

A testbed simulator for autonomous vehicle testing methods

Dr R Alexander

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research areas. Autonomous and self-adaptive systems; Cyber Physical Systems; Safety analysis, system safety; Safety of autonomous and self-adaptive systems; Software testing.

Combining Concolic Testing with Machine Learning to Find Software Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things

The University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science

Dr LC Cordeiro

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Concolic testing is a software verification technique that has been successfully applied to find subtle bugs in embedded software.

Tractable situation coverage for autonomous cars

Dr R Alexander

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research areas. Autonomous and self-adaptive systems; Safety analysis, system safety; Safety of autonomous and self-adaptive systems; Software testing.

To develop an advanced battery monitoring system for single or multi-cell batteries used in standby or emergency power systems

University of Leicester
Department of Engineering

Dr P Lefley, Dr J Rojas Siles

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

By working with the University of Leicester on this industrial MPhil, the company aims to create a new capability ‘in-house’ which will enable them bring their idea of a unique, new, intelligent battery monitoring system to life and have a product design that can then be manufactured and sold to its customers both nationally and further afield (exports to Europe and the USA).

Generating Graphs Uniformly at Random in User-Specified Domains

Dr D Plump

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research areas. Complex systems; Formal specification languages, methods and tools; Programming Languages and Systems; Software engineering;.

Next Generation Forensic and Incident Response Analysis Challenges

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Computing

Dr G Russell, Dr S McKeown, Prof B Buchanan, Dr P Leimich

Application Deadline: 30 November 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This work will look at the state-of-the-art investigation challenges such as related to Tor Forensics, Memory Forensics, IoT Forensics, Triage, Image Forensics, and Cloud Forensics.

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Improve the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Health Care

The University of Manchester
Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health

Dr B Brown, Prof D Dowding

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is widespread throughout commercial industries (think Google, Uber, Alexa, and Siri), but rarely used in health care settings.

Repurposing an API for oil drilling simulation software

Bournemouth University
Faculty of Science & Technology

Dr C gatzidis, Dr W Tang

Application Deadline: 31 October 2019

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This project is to be carried out in collaboration and with the support of a Bournemouth-based company called Drilling Systems (https://www.drillingsystems.com/).

Improving the effectiveness of social advertising

Anglia Ruskin University
Faculty of Science & Engineering

Research Group: Applied, Social and Health Psychology Research Group

Dr M Zawisza, Dr D McDermott

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Research Group. Applied, Social and Health Psychology Research Group - http://www.anglia.ac.uk/science-and-technology/research/our-research-institutes-and-groups/applied-social-and-health-psychology.