Publications are divided into the following subject areas:

Agile Software Development
Software Security
Testing, Reliability, and Reliability Prediction
Pair Programming
Pair Programming and Agile Software Development in Education
Misc Topics

Agile Software Development

• Williams, L.,  After All These Years, What Do Agile Teams Think About the Agile Principles?, Communications of the ACM, to appear.
• Williams, L.,  Brown, G., Meltzer, A., Nagappan, N., Scrum + Engineering Practices: Experiences of Three Microsoft Teams, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2011, Banff, Canada, to appear. IEEE Software Best Exerience Paper Award
• Williams, L.,  Kanban: Considered Helpful or Harmful in Software Development, Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 10. No 9, September 2010.
• Williams, L., Rubin, K., and Cohn, M.,  Driving Process Improvement Via Comparative Agility Assessment, Agile 2010, Orlando, FL. pp. 3-10.
• Williams, L.,  "Agile Software Development Methodologies and Practices ", in Advances in Computers, Volume 80, pp. 1-44, 2010.
• Williams, L.,  On the Stickiness of Agility in Software Development, Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 7, No. 7, pp. 5-12, July 2007.
• Sanchez, J., Williams, L., and Maximilien, M.,  A Longtitudinal Study of the Test-driven Development Practice in Industry, Agile 2007, Washington, DC.  pp. 5-14.
• Ho, Chih-wei, Johnson, Michael, Williams, L., Maximilien, E. M., On Agile Performance Requirements Specification and Testing, Agile 2006, Minneapolis, ISBN 0-7695-2562-8/06, electronic proceedings, 6 pages.
• Layman, L., Williams, L., Cunningham, L., Motivations and Measurements in an Agile Case Study , Journal of System Architecture, Vol. 52, No. 11, pp. 654-667, November 2006.
• Layman, L., Williams, L., Damian, D., Bures, H., Essential Communication Practices for Extreme Programming in a Global Software Development Team , Information and Software Technology, Vol. 48, No., 9, pp. 781-794, September 2006.
• Dagnino, A., Smiley, K., Srikanth , H., Antón , A., Williams, L . Experiences in Applying Agile Software Development Practices in New Product Development , International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Software Engineering and Applications (SEA) 2004.
• Layman, L., Williams, L. and Cunningham, L., Motivations and Measurements in an Agile Case Study , ACM SIGSOFT Foundation in Software Engineering Workshop Quantitative Techniques for Software Agile Processes (QTE-SWAP), Newport Beach, CA, 2004.
• Layman, L., Williams, L., Cunningham, L., Exploring Extreme Programming in Context: An Industrial Case Study, Agile Development Conference 2004, p. 32-41.
• Williams, L., Krebs, W., Layman, L., NCSU Technical Report, T Extreme Programming Evaluation Framework for Object-Oriented Languages – Version 1.4, TR-2004-18, June 17, 2004 .
• Williams, L., Krebs, W., Layman, L., Antón, A., Toward a Framework for Evaluating Extreme Programming, Empirical Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2004, pp. 11-20.
• Williams, L., “Software Engineering for Internet Applications” in The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing, Singh, M., ed., Chapman & Hall/CRC, invited, 2005, pp.43-1 – 43-13.
• Williams, L. and Cockburn, A. Agile Software Development: It's All about Feedback and Change, IEEE Computer, Vol. 36, No., 6, pp. 83-85, June 2003.
• Williams, L., The XP Programmer: The Few Minutes Programmer IEEE Software, Vol. 20, No., 3, pp. 16-20, May/June 2003.
• Marchesi, M., Succi, G., Wells, D., Williams, L. (eds.), Extreme Programming Perspectives, Addison Wesley, 2003.
• Wells, D. and Williams, L. (eds). Extreme Programming and Agile Methods - XP/Agile Universe 2002, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2418, 2002.
• Lindvall, M., Basili, V., Boehm, B., Costa, P., Dangle, K., Shull, F., Tesoriero, R., Williams, L., Zelkowitz, M., Empirical Findings in Agile Methods, XP/Agile Universe 2002, Chicago, IL, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2418, pp. 197-207.  

Software Security

• King, J., Smith, B, and Williams, L.,Modifying Without a Trace: General Audit Guidelines are Inadequate for Electronic Health Record Audit Mechanisms, 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI) 2012, Miami, FL, USA, to appear.
• Shin, Y. and Williams, L., An Initial Study on the Use of Execution Complexity Metrics as Indicators of Software Vulnerabilities, 7th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems 2011 at the International Conference on Software Engineering, Honolulu, USA, electronic proceedings.
• Helms, E. and Williams, L., Evaluating Access Control of Open Source Health Record Systems, 3rd Workshop on Software Engineering in Healthcare (SEHC) at the International Conference on Software Engineering, Honolulu, USA, electronic proceedings.
• Austin, A. and Williams, L., One Technique is Not Enough: An Empirical Comparison of Vulnerability Discovery Techniques, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Meaurement (ESEM) 2011, Banff, Canada, to appear.
• Smith, B. and Williams, L.,Using SQL Hotspots in a Prioritization Heuristic for Detecting Web Application Vulnerabilities, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2011, Berlin, pp. 220-229.
• Shin, Y., Meneely, A., Williams, L., Osbourne, J., Evaluating Complexity, Code Churn, and Developer Activity Metrics as Indicators of Software Vulnerabilities, IEEE Transactions in Software Engineering, to appear, 2011.
• B. Smith, A. Austin, M. Brown, J. King, J. Lankford, A. Meneely, L. Williams, Challenges for Protecting the Privacy of Health Information: Required Certification Can Leave Common Vulnerabilities Undetected, Security and Privacy in Medical and Home-care Systems (SPIMACS 2010) Workshop of ACM Computers and Communication Security 2010, Chicago, IL, to appear, 2010.
• Williams, L., Meneely, A., and Shipley, G., Protection Poker: The New Software Security "Game", IEEE Security and Privacy, Vol. 8, Number 3, May/June 2010, pp. 14-20.
• Meneely, A. and Williams, L., Strengthening the Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Linus' Law and Software Security, Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) 2010, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, Article 9.
• Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N. and Williams, L., , Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: Predicting Security Vulnerabilities for Windows Vista, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2010, Paris, France, pp.421-428.
• B. Smith, L. Williams, A. Austin, "Idea: Using System Level Testing for Revealing SQL Injection-Related Error Message Information Leaks", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5965, Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS 2010), Pisa, Italy, pp. 192-200, 2010.
• Austin, A., Smith, B., and Williams, L., Towards Improved Security Criteria for Certification of Electronic Health Record Systems, 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering in Healthcare at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, electronic proceedings.
• Meneely, A. and Williams, L., Secure Open Source Collaboration: An Empirical Study of Linus' Law, ACM Computers and Communication Security (CCS) 2009, Chicago, pp. 453-462.
• Williams, L., Silver Bullet Security Podcast with Gary McGraw Show 033, December 22, 2008.
• Gegick, M., Rotella, P. and Williams, L., Predicting Attack-Prone Components, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2009, Denver, CO, pp. 181-190.
• Williams, L., Gegick, M., and Meneely, A., Protection Poker: Structuring Software Security Risk Assessment and Knowledge Transfer, International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) 2009, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 122-134 [Protection Poker tutorial]
• Gegick, M., Rotella, P. and Williams, L., Toward Non-Security Failures as a Predictor of Security Faults and Failures, International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) 2009, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 135-149
• Thomas, S. and Williams, L., On an Automated Solution to Mitigating SQL Injection Vulnerabilities, Information and Software Technology,Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2009, Pages 589-598.
• Gegick, M. and Williams, L., Correlating Automated Static Analysis Alert Density to Reported Vulnerabilities in Sendmail, Metricon 2.0, Boston.
• Shin, Y. and Williams, L., Is Complexity Really the Enemy of Software Security?, Quality of Protection Workshop at the ACM Conference on Computers and Communications Security (CCS) 2008, Alexandria, VA, pp. 47-50.  
• Gegick, M., Williams, L., Osborne, J., and Vouk, M., Prioritizing Software Security Fortification through Code-Level Security Metrics, Quality of Protection Workshop at the ACM Conference on Computers and Communications Security (CCS) 2008, Alexandria, VA, pp. 31-38.  
• Shin, Y. and Williams, L., An Empirical Model to Predict Security Vulnerabilities Using Code Complexity Metrics, IEEE Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics (ESEM) 2008 short paper, Kaiserslautern , Germany, pp. 315-317.
• Gegick, M. and Williams, L., Toward the Use of Static Analysis Alerts for Early Indication of Vulnerability- and Attack-Prone Components, The First International Workshop on Systems Vulnerabilities (SYVUL ’07) at First International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity, Silicon Valley, CA, to appear.
• Smith, B.. Shin, Y. and Williams, L.,Proposing SQL Statement Coverage Metrics, 4th Intl. Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS 2008) at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Leipzig, Germany, pp. 49-56.
• Thomas, S. and Williams, L., Using Automated Fix Generation to Secure SQL Statements, 3rd Intl. Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (SESS 2007) at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ISCE) 2007, Minneapolis, MN
• Gegick, M. and Williams, L., On the Design of Secure Software-Intensive Systems by Use of Attack Patterns, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 381-397, April 2007.
• Gegick, M., Williams, L., An Early Testing and Defense Web Application Framework for Malicious Input Attacks, Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2006, Raleigh, NC, ISBN 978-0-9671473-3-3-8.
• Shin, Y., Williams, L., and Xie, T., SQLUnitGen: SQL Injection Testing Using Static and Dynamic Analysis, Student Paper at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2006, Raleigh, NC, ISBN 978-0-9671473-3-3-8.
• Williams, L. and Shin, Y., WIP: Exploring Security and Privacy Concepts through the Development and Testing of the iTrust Medical Records System, Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2006, San Diego,  pp. S1F30-31.
• Gegick, M. and Williams, L., Matching Attack Signatures to Security Vulnerabilities in Software-Intensive System Design, Software Engineering for Secure Systems Workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St. Louis.
• Gegick, M. and Williams, L., Matching Attack Signatures to Security Vulnerabilities in Software-Intensive System Design, Software Engineering for Secure Systems Workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St. Louis.

Testing, Reliability, and Reliability Prediction

• Srikanth, H. and Williams, L.,Toward the Prioritization of System Test Cases, Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, to appear.
• Zimmermann, T., Nagappan, N. Herzig, K., Premraj, R. and Williams, L., An Empirical Study on the Relation between Dependency Neighborhoods and Failures, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2011, Berlin, 347-356.
• Syed, R., Robinson, B., and Williams, L. Does Hardware Configuration and Processor Load Impact Software Fault Observability?, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2010, Paris, France, pp.285-294.  
• Williams, L., Kudrjavets G., Nagappan, N.,  On the Effectiveness of Unit Test Automation at Microsoft, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2009, Mysuru, India, pp. 81-89.
• Smith, B. and Williams, L., On Guiding the Augmentation of an Automated Test Suite via Mutation Analysis, Empirical Software Engineering, Volume 14, Issue 3, Page 341-369, June 2009.
• Smith, B. and Williams, L., Should Software Testers use Mutation Analysis to Augment a Test Set?, Journal of Systems Software, vol. 82, no. 11, pp. 1819-1832, 2009.  
• Meneely, A., Williams, L., Snipes, W., and Osbourne, J., Predicting Failures with Developer Networks and Social Network Analysis, ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2008, Atlanta, GA, pp. 13-23.
• Nagappan, N., E. M. Maximilien, Bhat, T., and Williams, L.  Realizing Quality Improvement Through Test Driven Development: Results and Experiences of Four Industrial Teams, Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 3, June 2008, pp. 289-302.  
• Smith, B. and Williams, L., An Empirical Study of MuJava Mutation Operators, Windsor, UK: Mutation 2007.
• Sherriff, M., Lake, M., and Williams, L., Prioritization of Regression Tests Using Singular Value Decomposition with Empirical Change Records, IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 1007, Trollhättan, Sweden, pp. 81-90.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., and Osborne, J.,Using In-Process Testing Metrics to Estimate Post-Release Field Quality of Java Programs, IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 1007, Trollhättan, Sweden, pp. 81-90.
• Meneely, A., Williams, L., and Snipes, W., System Test Case Prioritization, Using Static Metrics and System Failure Data,, IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 1007, Trollhättan, Sweden student paper
• Sherriff, M., Heckman, S., Lake, M., Williams, L., Using Grouping of Static Analysis Alerts to Identify Files Likely to Contain Field Failures, ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering Short Paper, to appear.
• Johnson, M., Ho, C-w, Maximilien, M., and Williams, L., Incorporating Performance Testing in Test-Driven Development, IEEE Software, Vol. 24, No., 3, pp. 67-73, May/June 2007.
• Sherriff, M. and Williams, L., DevCOP: A Software Certificate Management System for Eclipse, International Symposium for Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2006, Raleigh, NC, pp. 375-384.
• Zheng, J., Williams, L., Robinson, B., Smiley, K., Regression Test Selection for Black Box Dynamic Link Library Components, 2nd Intl. Workshop on Incorporating COTS Software into Software Systems (IWICSS 2007) at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ISCE) 2007, Minneapolis, MN
• Williams, L., Snipes, W., and Meneely, A., On Increasing System Test Effectiveness through a Test Case Prioritization Model Using Static Metrics and System Failure Data, Reliability Analysis of System Failure Data Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 2007
• Ho, Chih-wei and Williams, L., Developing Software Performance with the Performance Refinement and Evolution Model, Workshop on Software Performance (WOSP), Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 133-136, 2007.
• Heckman, S., Williams, L., Automated Adaptive Ranking and Filtering of Static Analysis Alerts, Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2006, Raleigh, NC, ISBN 978-0-9671473-3-3-8
• Zheng, J., Williams, L., Robinson, B., Smiley, K., Identifying Change in Dynamic Link Library COTS Components when Source Code is Not Available, Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2006, Raleigh, NC, ISBN 978-0-9671473-3-3-8.
• Williams, L., Teaching an Active Participation Course in Software Reliability and Testing, “ How Should Software Reliability Engineering Be Taught?” Panel Paper at the IEEE International Symposium of Software Reliability Engineering 2005, Chicago, IL.
• Garzia, M., Hudepohl, J., Snipes, W., Lyu, M. Musa, J., Smidts, C., Williams, L., How Should Software Reliability Engineering (SRE) be Taught?, Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 31, No., 4, pp. 1-5, July 2006.
• Zheng, J., Robinson, B., Williams, L., and Smiley, K., Applying Test Case Selection for COTS-based Applications, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2006, Shanghai, pp. 512-521.
• Zheng, J., Williams, L., Snipes, W., Nagappan, N., Hudepohl, J., Vouk, M., On the Value of Static Analysis Tools for Fault Detection, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 32, No., 4, pp. 240-253, April 2006.
• Zheng, J., Robinson, B., Williams, L., Smiley, K., An Initial Study of a Lightweight Process for Change Identification and Regression Test Selection When Source Code is Not Available , International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2005, Chicago, IL, pp. 225-234.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Osborne, J., Vouk, M., Abrahamsson, P., Providing Test Quality Feedback Using Static Source Code and Automatic Test Suite Metrics, International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2005, Chicago, IL, pp. 85-94.
• Strom, M., Davidsson, M., Williams, L., Vouk, M., The Good Enough Reliability Tool (GERT) – Version 2 , Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2005, Chicago, pp. 4.35-4.36.
• Sherriff, M. and Williams, L., Certification of Code During Development to Provide an Estimate of Defect Density , Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2005, Chicago, pp. 4.47-4.48.
• Smith, S., Williams, L., Xu, J., Expediting Programmer AWAREness of Anomalous Code , Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2005, Chicago, pp. 4.49-4.50.
• Zheng, J., Robinson, B., Williams, L., Smiley, K., A Lightweight Process for Change Identification and Regression Test Selection in Using COTS Components, International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, Orlando, FL, pp. 137-143.
• Sherriff, M. and Williams, L., A Method for Validation and Verification Certificates in Eclipse, Workshop on Software Certificate Management (SoftCeMent) at Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2005, Long Beach, CA.
• Srikanth, H., Williams, L., Osborne, J., System Test Case Prioritization of New and Regression Test Cases, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE) 2005, Noosa Head pp. 63-73, .
• Zheng, J., Robinson, B., Williams, L., Smiley, K., A Process for Identifying Changes When Source Code is Not Available, Second International Workshop on Models and Processes for the Evaluation of Off-the-Shelf Components at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St. Louis.
• Sherriff, M., Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Early Estimate of Defect Density Using an In-Process Haskell Metrics Model, First International Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Software Testing (A-MOST) at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St. Louis.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Osborne, J., Early Estimation of Software Quality Using In-Process Testing Metrics: A Controlled Case Study, Third Workshop on Software Quality at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St. Louis.
• Srikanth, H., and Williams, L., Requirements-Based Test Case Prioritization , Grace Hopper Poster, 2004, Chicago, IL
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Osborne, J., Using In-Process Testing Metrics to Estimate Software Reliability: A Feasibility Study, Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2004, St. Malo, France, November 2004.
• Sherriff, M., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Using In-Process Metrics to Predict Defect Density in Haskell Programs , Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2004, St. Malo, France, November 2004 .
• Sherriff, M. and Williams, L. Tool Support for Estimating Software Reliability in Haskell Programs, Student Paper. The 15th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, St-Malo, France, Nov 2-5, 2004. pp. 61-62.
• Williams, L. On the Need for a Process for Making Reliable Quality Comparisons with Industrial Data, Workshop on Empirical Research in Software Testing (WERST'2004) in conjunction with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2004), Boston, MA.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., Hudepohl, J., Snipes, W., A Preliminary Investigation of Automated Software Inspection , IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering 2004, St. Malo, France, pp. 429-439.
• Davidsson, M., Zheng, J., Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Vouk, M., GERT: An Empirical Reliability Estimation and Testing Feedback Tool , IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering 2004, St. Malo, France, pp. 269-280.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., and Vouk, M., Toward a Metric Suite for Early Software Reliability Estimation , Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2003, Denver, CO.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., and Vouk, M., “Good Enough” Software Reliability Estimation Plug-In for Eclipse , Eclipse Technology Exchange (Workshop) at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2003, Anaheim, CA.
• George, B. and Williams,L., A Structured Experiment of Test-Driven Developmen (early version), Information and Software technology, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp 337-342, April 2004.  
• Williams, L., Maximillien, M., and Vouk, M., Test-Driven Development as a Defect-Reduction Practice, IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2003, Denver, CO, pp. 34-45.  
• Maximillien, M. and Williams, L., Assessing Test-Driven Development at IBM, International Conference on Software Engineering 2003, Portland, OR, pp. 564-569.  
• George, B. and Williams, L., An Initial Investigation of Test-Driven Development in Industry, ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), March 2002, Melbourne, FL, pp. 1135-1139.  
• Williams, L., Wang, L., Vouk, M., "Good Enough" Reliability for Extreme Programming, Fast Abstract at the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE) 2002, Anapolis, VA.

Pair Programming

• Williams, L., "Pair Programming", in Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It , O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2011.
• Williams, L., "Pair Programming" [submitted draft], in Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, Taylor and Francis Group, in press.
• Williams, L., Debunking the Nerd Stereotype with Pair Programming (Broadening Participation in Computing Series), IEEE Computer, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 83-85, May 2006.
• Ho, C., Raha, S., Gehringer, E., Williams, L., Sangam: A Distributed Pair Programming Plug-in for Eclipse , Eclipse Technology Exchange (Workshop) at the Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) 2004.
• Williams, L., Shukla, A., Antón, A., An Initial Exploration of the Relationship Between Pair Programming and Brook's Law , Agile Development Conference 2004, pp. 11-20.
• Williams, Laurie and Kessler, Robert. Pair Programming Illuminated, Addison Wesley, 2003.
• Stotts, D., Williams, L., Nagappan, N., Baheti, P., Jen, D., Jackson, A., Virtual Teaming: Experiments and Experiences with Distributed Pair Programming , Extreme Programming/Agile Universe 2003, New orleans, LA, pp. 129-141.
• Erdogmus, H. and Williams, L. A Value-Based Analysis of Pair Programming , The Engineering Economist, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 283-319, 2003.
• Succi, G., Marchesi, M., Pedrycz,W., Williams, L., Preliminary Analysis of the Effects of Pair Programming on Job Satisfaction, Fourth International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP2002).
• Williams, L. and Erdogmus, H., On the Economic Feasibility of Pair Programming, International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering in conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2002.
• Baheti, P., Williams, L., Gehringer, E., Stotts, D., and Smith, J., Distributed Pair Programming: Empirical Studies and Supporting Environments, UNC-CH Technical Report TR02-010, March 15, 2002.
• Cockburn, Alistair and Williams, Laurie .The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming in Extreme Programming Examined.  Addison Wesley, 2001.
• Cockburn, Alistair and Williams, Laurie. The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming, eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering XP2000. 
• Williams, Laurie, Kessler, Robert R., Cunningham, Ward, and Jeffries, Ron, Strengthening the Case for Pair-Programming, IEEE Software, Vol. 17, No., 4, pp. 19-25, July/Aug 2000. January 2009 update:  IEEE Software 25th Anniversary Top Pick Paper; on the list of Most Cited IEEE Software Articles for a 25-year period
• Williams, Laurie and Kessler, Robert R., All I Really Need to Know about Pair Programming I Learned In Kindergarten, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 43, No., 5, pp. 108-114, May 2000.
• Williams, L.,  The Collaborative Software Process.  PhD Dissertation, 2000.

Pair Programming and Agile Software Development in Education

• Williams, L., McCrickard, S., Layman, L., Hussein, K., Eleven Guidelines for Implementing Pair Programming in the Classroom, Agile 2008 Education Track, Toronto, pp. 445-453.
  
• Layman, L., Williams, L., Slaten, K., Berenson, S., and Vouk, M., Addressing Diverse Needs through a Balance of Agile and Plan-Driven Software Development Methodologies in the Core Software Engineering Course, International Journal on Engineering Education, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 659-670, July 2008.
• Williams, L., Lessons Learned from Seven Years of Pair Programming at North Carolina State University, Inroads: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 79-83, December 2007.
• Williams, L. and Layman, L., Lab Partners: If They’re Good Enough for the Natural Sciences, Why Aren’t They Good Enough for Us?, Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) 2007, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 72-82.
• Williams, L., Layman, L., Slaten, K., Berenson, S., and Seaman, C., On the Impact of a Collaborative Pedagogy on African American Women in Software Engineering, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2007 Educator Track, Minneapolis, MN, pp. 677-687.
• Berenson, S., Williams, L., and Slaten, K., “Using Pair Programming and Agile Development Methods in a University Software Course to Develop a Model of Social Interaction” in Reconfiguring the Firewall: Recruiting Women to Information Technology Across Cultures and Continents, Burger, C., Creamer, E., and Meszaros, P. (eds.),Wellesley, MA: A K Peter, Ltd., 2007, pp. 65-76.
• Williams, L., Layman, L., Osborne, J., Katira, N., Examining the Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers, Agile 2006, pp. 411-420.
• Layman, L., Cornwell, T., and Williams, L., Personality Types, Learning Styles, and an Agile Approach to Software Engineering Education, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2006, Houston, TX, pp. 428-432.
• Layman, L., Williams, L., Osborne, J., Berenson, S., Slaten, K., Vouk, M., How and Why Collaborative Software Development Impacts the Software Engineering Course, Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2005, pp. T4C9-T4C14.
• Slaten, K., Droujkova, M., Berenson, S., Williams, L., Layman, L., Understanding Student Perceptions of Pair Programming and Agile Software Development Methodologies: Verifying a Model of Social Interaction, Agile 2005, Denver, CO, pp. 323-330.
• Katira, N., Williams, L., Osborne, J., Towards Increasing the Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers , International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) Education Track 2005, St. Louis, MO, pp. 625-626.
• Katira, N., Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Miller, C., Balik, S., Gehringer, E., On Understanding Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2004, Norfolk, VA, pp. 7-11.
• Berenson, S., Slaten, K., Williams, L., Ho, C-w, Voice of Women in a Software Engineering Course: Reflections on Collaboration, ACM Journal of Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2004.
• Ho, Chih-wei, Slaten, K., Williams, L., and Berenson, S., Work in Progress – Unexpected Student Outcome from Collaborative Agile Software Development Practices and Paired Programming in a Software Engineering Course, Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2004, Savannah, GA, pp. F2C15-16.
• Ho, Chih-wei, Slaten, Kelli, Williams, L., Berenson, S., Extreme Examining the Impact of Pair Programming on Female Students , NCSU Technical Report, TR-2004-20, June 17, 2004.
• Katira, N., Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Miller, C., Balik, S., Gehringer, E., On Understanding Compatibility of Student Pair Programmers, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2004, Norfolk, VA, pp. 7-11.
• Srikanth, H., Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Miller, C., Balik, S., On Pair Rotation in the Computer Science Course , Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) 2004, Norfolk, VA, pp. 144-149.
• Williams, L., McDowell, C., Fernald, J., Werner, L., Nagappan, N. Building Pair Programming Knowledge Through a Family of Experiments , IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE) 2003, Rome, Italy, pp. 143-152.
• Wiebe, E., Williams, L., Petlick, J., Nagappan, N., Balik, S., Miller, C., Ferzli, M. Pair Programming in Introductory Programming Labs , American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) 2003.
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Miller, C., Balik, S., Ferzli, M., Petlick, M., Pair Learning: With an Eye Toward Future Success, Extreme Programming/Agile Universe 2003, New Orleans, LA, pp. 185-198..
• Nagappan, N., Williams, L., Ferzli, M., Weibe, E., Yang, K., Miller, C., Balik, S., Improving the CS1 Experience with Pair Programming, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2003, Reno, NV, pp. 359-362.
• Ferzli, M., Wiebe, E., Williams, L., Paired Programming Project: Focus Groups with Teaching Assistants and Students, NCSU Technical Report, TR-2002-16, November 25, 2002.
• Hislop, G., Lutz, M., Naveda, J. F., McCracken, M., Mead, N., Williams, L., Integrating Agile Practices into Software Engineering Courses , Computer Science Education, Vol. 12, No., 3, pp. 169-185, Sept. 2002.
• Williams, L., Wiebe, E., Yang, K., Ferzli, M., Miller, C., In Support of Pair Programming in the Introductory Computer Science Course, Computer Science Education, Vol. 12, No., 3, pp. 197-202, September 2002.
• Williams, L., Yang, K., Wiebe, E., Ferzli, M., Miller, C., Pair Programming in an Introductory Computer Science Course:  Initial Results and Recommendations, OOPSLA Educator's Symposium 2002, Seattle, WA, November 2002.
• Baheti, P., Williams, L., Gehringer, E., Stotts, D., Exploring Pair Programming in Distributed Object-Oriented Team Projects, OOPSLA Educator's Symposium 2002, Seattle, WA, November 2002.
• Shukla, Anuja and Williams, Laurie, Adapting Extreme Programming for a Core Software Engineering Course , Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) 2002, Covington, KY, pp. 184-190.
• Williams, Laurie and Upchurch, Richard. Extreme Programming for Software Engineering Education? , Proceedings of Frontiers in Education (FIE) 2001, Las Vegas, NV, pp. TD2 12-17.
• Williams, Laurie, Kessler, Robert R., Experimenting with Industry's "Pair-Programming" Model in the Computer Science Classroom, Computer Science Education, Vol.. 11, No. 1, pp. 7-20, March 2001. 
• Williams, Laurie.  Integrating Pair Programming into a Software Development Process, Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) 2001, Charlotte, NC, pp. 27-36. 
• Williams, Laurie and Upchurch, Richard.  In Support of Student Pair Programming, 2001 SIGCSE Conference on Computer Science Education, Charlotte, NC, pp. 327-331,February 2001.
• Williams, L. An Alternative: The Collaborative Software Process, Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, Teaching PSP and TSPi in Universities Workshop, February 2001, Charlotte, NC.
• Williams, Laurie and Kessler, Robert R.,  The Effects of “Pair-Pressure” and “Pair-Learning” on Software Engineering Education.  Conference of Software Engineering Education and Training 2000, Austin, TX., pp. 59-65. 

Misc Topics

• Schmidt, J. Y., Antón, A., Williams, L., and Otto, P., The Role of Data Use Agreements in Specifying Legally Compliant Software Requirements, Fourth Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law at Requirements Engineering (RE) 2011, Trento, Italy, to appear.
• Meneely, A, Smith, B. and Williams, L., Validating Software Metrics:  A Spectrum of Philosophies, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering, to appear.
• Meneely, A, Rotella, P. and Williams, L., Does Adding Manpower Also Affect Quality? An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis, ACM Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2011, to appear.
• Meneely, A, Smith, B. and Williams, L., "iTrust", in Software and Systems Traceability, to appear.
• Meneely, A. and Williams, L., Socio-Technical Networks: Should We Trust Our Measurements?, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii, to appear.
• Meneely, A. and Williams, L., On the Use of Issue Tracking Annotations for Improving Developer Activity Metrics, Advances in Software Engineeringi, to appear.
• Heckman, S. and Williams, L., Systematic Literature Review of Actionable Alert Identification Techniques for Automated Static Code Analysis, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 53, No. 4, April 2011.
• Meneely, A. Cochoran, M., and Williams, L., Improving Developer Activity Metrics with Issue Tracking Annotations, Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, electronic proceedings.
• Heckman, S. and Wolliams, L., A Model Building Process for Identifying Actionable Static Analysis Alerts, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST) 2009, Denver, CO, pp. 161-170.
• Meneely, A. and Williams, L., On Preparing Students for Distributed Software Development with a Synchronous, Collaborative Development Platform, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2009, Chatanooga, TN,pp. 529-533.
• Heckman, S. and Williams, L., On Establishing a Benchmark for Evaluating Static Analysis Alert Prioritization and Classification Techniques, Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics 2008, pp. 41-50.
• Ho, C-w, Williams, L., and Robinson, B., Examining the Relationships between Performance Requirements and “Not a Problem” Defect Reports, Requirements Engineering (RE) 2008, Barcelona, Spain,
• Layman, L., Williams, L., and St. Amant, L., MimEc:  Intelligent User Notification of Faults in the Eclipse IDE, Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE) workshop at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Leipzig, Germany, pp. 73-76.
• Meneely, A., Williams, L., Gehringer, E. ROSE: A Repository of Education-Friendly Open-Source Projects, ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) 2008, Madrid, Spain, pp. 7-11.
• Sherriff, M. and Williams, L., Empirical Software Change Impact Analysis Using Singular Value Decomposition, International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation 2008, Lillehammer, Norway, pp. 268-277.
• Ho, C-w, Williams, L., Antón, A., Improving Performance Requirements Specification from Field Failure Reports, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference 2007, New Delhi, India, pp. 79-88.
• Layman, L., Williams, L, St. Amant, R., Toward Reducing Fault Fix Time: Understanding Developer Behavior for the Design of Automated Fault Detection Tools, Empirical Software Engineering and Metrics (ESEM) 2007, Madrid, Spain, pp. 176-185. Best Paper Award
• Williams, L.,Structuring Families of Industrial Case Studies in Empirical Software Engineering Issues:  Critical Assessment and Future Directions, edited by Basili, V., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., and Selby, R., Berlin:  Springer LNCS 4336, p. 134, 2007.
• Prechelt, L. and Williams, L.,Industry-Research Collaboration Working Group Results in Empirical Software Engineering Issues:  Critical Assessment and Future Directions ,edited by Basili, V., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., and Selby, R., Berlin:  Springer LNCS 4336, p. 153-157, 2007.
• Williams, L., Erdogmus, H., and Selby, R.,Roadmapping Working Group 4 Results in Empirical Software Engineering Issues:  Critical Assessment and Future Directions, edited by Basili, V., Rombach, D., Schneider, K., Kitchenham, B., Pfahl, D., and Selby, R., Berlin:  Springer LNCS 4336, p. 134, 2007.
• Layman, L., Williams, L., and Slaten, K., Note to Self: Make Assignments Meaningful, ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2007, Covington, KY, pp. 459-463.
• Layman, L., Cornwell, T., Williams, L., Osborne, J., Personality Profiles and Learning Styles of Advanced Undergraduate Computer Science Students, NCSU CSC Technical Report, TR-2005-40, August 29, 2005.
• Williams, L., Layman, L., Abrahamsson, P., Establishing the Essential Components of a Technology-Dependent Framework: A Strawman Framework for Industrial Case Study-Based Research, Workshop on Evidence-Based Software Engineering at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2005, St. Louis.
• Williams, L., Smith, S., Rappa, M., Resources for Agile Software Development in the Software Engineering Course, Course Materials, Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) 2005, Ottawa, CA, pp. 236-238.
• Rappa, M., Smith, S., Yacoub, A ., Williams, L., OpenSeminar: A Web Based Collaboration Tool for Open Educational Resources , IEEE Collaborate Com, San Jose, CA.
• Baheti, P., Williams, L., Dagnino, A., Cordes, A., On Identifying Defects in a Knowledge Management System, Software Engineering Knowledge Engineering (SEKE) 2003, San Francisco, pp. 385-392.
• Borstler, J. Carrington, D. Hislop, G.W. Lisack, S. Olson, K. Williams, L. Teaching PSP: challenges and lessons learned, IEEE Software, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 42-48, Sept/Oct 2002.  
• George, B., Mansour, M., Williams, L., A multidisciplinary virtual team, 14th international conference on college teaching and learning, 2002, Jacksonville, FL.
• Carter, Ryan, Anton, Annie, Dagnino, Aldo, and Williams, Laurie.  Evolving Beyond Requirements Creep:  A Risk-Based Evolutionary Prototyping Model.  Requirements Engineering 2001, Toronto, Toronto, Canada, pp. 138-145..
• Anton, A., Carter, R., Srikanth, H., Sureka, A., Williams, L., Yang, K., Tailored CMM for Small e-Commerce Company-Level 2:  Repeatable, NCSU Technical Report, NCSU Technical Report, TR-2001-09, August 23, 2001.  
• Anton, A. Carter, R., Earp, J., and Williams, L. EPRAM:  Evolutionary Prototyping Risk Analysis and Mitigation (e-Commerce Software Development Process Document), NCSU Technical Report, TR-2001-08, August 20, 2001.
• Kessler, Robert R. and Williams, Laurie, If This Is What It's Really Like, Maybe I Better Major in English: Integrating Realism into a Sophomore Software Engineering Course, Frontiers in Education (FIE) 1999, San Juan, pp. 12a 4-12. 
• Williams, L. But, isn't that cheating?  Frontiers in Education Conference Faculty Fellow, 1999. FIE '99. 29th Annual , Volume: 2, San Juan, 1999.
• Williams, Laurie, Instilling a Defect Prevention Philosophy, Frontiers in Education (FIE) 1998, Tempe, AZ, Session S4C. 
• Williams, Laurie, Adjusting the Instruction of the Personal Software Process to Improve Student Participation, Frontiers in Education (FIE)1997, Pittsburgh, Session T2B

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