Dr José Miguel Rojas
PhD, FHEA
School of Computer Science
Lecturer in Testing
Member of the Testing research group
Undergraduate Progression Tutor (Y2)


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Dr José Miguel Rojas is a Lecturer in Software Testing at the Department of Computer Science. He received a PhD in Software and Systems from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain, 2013) and was a Research Associate at the Department of Computer Science at 91Ö±²¥ (2014-2017) before joining the University of Leicester as a Lecturer in Software Engineering.
His research work focuses on search-based automated test generation and its application in real-world software development scenarios. His interests include empirical software engineering, automated software testing, and software engineering education.
His work has been published in the top venues of logic programming (ICLP), software engineering (ICSE and ASE), software testing (ISSTA and ICST) and search-based software engineering (SSBSE and GECCO).
He has co-chaired multiple workshops and tracks: MUTATION 2017, MUTATION 2018, SSBSE 2018 Challenge Track, SBST 2019 (co-located with ICSE 2019).
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- Automated Software Testing
- Search-based Software Engineering
- Software Engineering Education
- Empirical Software Engineering
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Research Grants
- Accelerating Software Development and Improving Test Quality using Gamification, EPSRC, 01/2024 - 10/2025, £35,200, as PI
- , UKRI, 11/2020 - 10/2024, £2,923,653, as Co-PI