Human Aspects of Software Development

• [ANP09] Andrew Begel, Nachiappan Nagappan, Chrisopher Poile, Lucas Layman, "Coordination in Large-Scale Software Teams," Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human and Cooperative Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '09), pp. 1-7.
• [LWS08] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Robert St. Amant, "MimEc: Intelligent User Notification of Faults in the Eclipse IDE," Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Human and Cooperative Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE '08), pp. 73-76.
• Best Paper Award!
  [LWA07] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Robert St. Amant, "Toward Reducing Fault Fix Time: Understanding Developer Behavior for the Design of Automated Fault Detection Tools," International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM '07), pp 176-185.

Software Safety and Reliability

• Lucas Layman, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Karen L. Fisher, "A Case Study of Measuring Process Risk for Early Insights into Software Safety", Proceedings of the 33rd Int'l Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011), pp. 623-632.
• Victor R. Basili, Lucas Layman, Marvin V. Zelkowitz, "A Methodology for Exposing Software Development Risk in Emergent System Properties", Fraunhofer CESE TR# 11-101, 2011.
• Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Lucas Layman, Kathleen Dangle, Madeline Diep, "Obtaining Valid Safety Data for Software Safety Measurement and Process Improvement," Proceedings of the 4th joint symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics (ESEM '10).
• Lucas Layman, Victor R. Basili, Marvin V. Zelkowitz, "The Role and Quality of Software Safety in the NASA Constellation Program", NASA TR #20100025500, 2010.
• [LKN08] Lucas Layman, Gunnar Kudrjavets, Nachiappan Nagappan, "Iterative Identification of Fault-Prone Binaries Using In-Process Metrics," Proceedings of the 2nd joint symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics (ESEM '08), pp. 206-212.

Software Process Improvement

• Lucas Layman, Forrest Shull, Paul Componation, Sue O'Brien, Dawn Sabados, Anne Carrigy, Richard Turner, "Systematic Mapping of System Engineering Challenges to Recommended Approaches", IEEE Systems Conference 2010 (SysConf '10), pp. 294-299.
• [LNG08] Lucas Layman, Nachiappan Nagappan, Sam Guckenheimer, Jeff Beehler, Andrew Begel, "Mining Software Effort Data: Preliminary Analysis of Visual Studio Team System Data," Proceedings of the 5th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '08), pp. 43-46.
• [WLA05] Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, Pekka Abrahamsson, "On Establishing the Essential Components of a Technology-Dependent Framework: A Strawman Framework for Industrial Case Study-Based Research," Workshop on Realising Evidence-Based Software Engineering (REBSE '05), St. Louis, MO, May 17, 2005, pp. 1-5.

Agile Software Development

• Forrest Shull, Grigori Melnik, Burak Turhan, Lucas Layman, Madeline Diep and Hakan Erdogmus, “What do we know about Test-Driven Development?”, IEEE Software, 27(6):16-19, November/December 2010.
• Burak Turhan, Lucas Layman, Madeline Diep, Hakan Erdogmus, Forrest Shull, "How Effective is Test Driven Development?", in Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It, Greg Wilson Ed., O'Reilly, Cambridge, MA
• Forrest Shull, Grigori Melnik, Burak Turhan, Lucas Layman, Madeline Diep and Hakan Erdogmus, "What do we know about Test-Driven Development?", IEEE Software, 27(6):16-19, November/December 2010.
• [LWD06] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Daniela Damian, and Hynek Bures "Essential Communication Practices for Extreme Programming in a Global Software Development Team," Information and Software Technology, vol. 48, issue 9, pp. 781-794, September 2006.
• [Lay04] Lucas Layman, "Empirical Investigation of the Impact of Extreme Programming Practices on Software Projects," Companion to the 19th Annual ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA '04), Vancouver, Bc, October 24-28, 2004, pp. 328-329.
• [LWC04a] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, and Lynn Cunningham, "Motivations and Measurements in an Agile Case Study," Journal of System Architecture, Vol. 52, Issue 11, 2006, pp. 654-667.
• [LWC04b] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, and Lynn Cunningham, "Exploring Extreme Programming in Context: An Industrial Case Study," Proceedings of the 2nd Agile Development Conference (ADC '04), Salt Lake City, UT, June 22-26, 2004, pp. 32-41.
• [WKL04] Laurie Williams, William Krebs, Lucas Layman, and Annie I. Antón, "Toward a Framework for Evaluating Extreme Programming," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Empirical Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE '04), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24-25, 2004, pp. 11-20.

Agile Evaluation Frameworks

• Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, and William Krebs, "Extreme Programming Evaluation Framework for Object-Oriented Languages – Version 1.4," North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, TR-2004-18.
• Laurie Williams, William Krebs, and Lucas Layman, "Extreme Programming Evaluation Framework for Object-Oriented Languages – Version 1.3," North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, TR-2004-11.
• Laurie Williams, Williams Krebs, and Lucas Layman, "Extreme Programming Evaluation Framework for Object-Oriented Languages – Version 1.2," North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, TR-2004-1.
• Laurie Williams, William Krebs, and Lucas Layman, "Extreme Programming Evaluation Framework for Object-Oriented Languages – Version 1.1," North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, TR-2003-20.
• William Krebs, Chih-wei Ho, Laurie Williams, and Lucas Layman, "Rational Unified Process Evaluation Framework Version 1.0," North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, TR-2005-46.

Program Slicing

[GL03] Keith Gallagher and Lucas Layman, "Are Decomposition Slices Clones?" Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshop on Program Comprehension (IWPC 2003), Portland, OR, May 10-11, 2003, pp. 251-256.

• [LWSB08] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Kelli Slaten, Sarah Berenson, and Mladen Vouk, "Addressing Diverse Needs through a Balance of Agile and Plan-driven Software Development Methodologies in the Core Software Engineering Course," International Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 24, issue 4, pp. 659-670.
• Laurie Williams, D. Scott McCrickard, Lucas Layman, Khaled Hussein, “Eleven Guidelines for Implementing Pair Programming in the Classroom,” Proceedings of Agile 2008, Toronto, ON, pp. 445-452.
• [WL07] Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, "Lab Partners: If They're Good Enough for the Sciences, Why Aren't They Good Enough for Us?" Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET '07), pp. 72-82.
• [WLS07] Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, Kelli M. Slaten, Carolyn Seaman, Sarah B. Berenson, "On the Impact of a Collaborative Pedagogy on African-American Millennial Students in Software Engineering," International Conference on Software Engineering Educator's Symposium (ICSE '07), pp. 677-687.
• [LWS07] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Kelli Slaten, "Note to Self: Make Assignments Meaningful," Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '07), pp. 459-463.
• [LLO06] Laurie Williams, Lucas Layman, Jason Osborne, Neha Katira, "Examining the Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers," Proceedings of Agile 2006, Minneapolis, MN, July 23-28, 2006, pp. 411-420.
• [Lay06] Lucas Layman, "Changing Students' Perceptions: An Analysis of the Supplementary Benefits of Collaborative Software Development," Proceedings of 19th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET '06), Turtle Bay, HI, April 19-21, 2006, pp. 159-166.
• [LCW06] Lucas Layman, Travis Cornwell, and Laurie Williams, "Personality Types, Learning Styles, and an Agile Approach to Software Engineering Education," Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '06), Houston, TX, March 1-5, 2006, pp. 428-432.
• [LWO05] Lucas Layman, Laurie Williams, Jason Osborne, Sarah Berenson, Kelli Slaten, and Mladen Vouk, "How and Why Collaborative Software Development Impacts the Software Engineering Course," Proceedings of Frontiers in Education (FIE ‘05), Indianapolis, IN, pp. T4C 9–14.
• [SDB05] Kelli M. Slaten, Maria Droujkova, Sarah Berenson, Laurie Williams, and Lucas Layman, "Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Pair Programming and Agile Software Methodologies: Verifying a Model of Social Interaction," Proceedings of Agile Conference 2005, Denver, CO, July 24-29, 2005, pp. 323-330.
• Lucas Layman, Travis Cornwell, Laurie Williams, and Jason Osborne, "Personality Profiles and Learning Styles of Advanced Undergraduate Computer Science Students," North Carolina State University Department of Computer Science, TR-2005-40.