"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
- Francis Bacon

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Selected Papers

• Quantitatively Measuring Object-Oriented Couplings Jeff Offutt, Aynur Abdurazik and Stephen R. Schach. Springer's Software Quality Journal, 6(4):489-517, December 2008. doi: 10.1007/s11219-008-9051-x. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Maintainability of the Kernels of Open-Source Operating Systems: A Comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, Liguo Yu, Stephen R. Schach, Kai Chen, Gillian Z. Heller and Jeff Offutt. Journal of Systems and Software, 79:807-815, December 2005. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Categorization of Common Coupling and its Application to the Maintainability of the Linux Kernel, Liguo Yu, Stephen R. Schach, Kai Chen and Jeff Offutt. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 30(10):694-706, October 2004. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Open-Source Change Logs, Kai Chen, Stephen R. Schach, and Jeff Offutt. Kluwer's Empirical Software Engineering, 9(3):197-210, September 2004. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Maintaining Evolving Component-based Software With UML, Ye Wu and Jeff Offutt. Proceedings Seventh European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Benevento, Italy, March 2003, pp 133 -142. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Determining the Distribution of Maintenance Categories: Survey Versus Empirical Study, Stephen R. Schach, Bo Jin, David R. Wright, Gillian Z. Heller, and Jeff Offutt. Kluwer's Empirical Software Engineering, 8(4):351-365, December 2003. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Quality Impacts of Clandestine Common Coupling, Stephen R. Schach, Bo Jin, David R. Wright, Gillian Z. Heller, and Jeff Offutt. Kluwer's Software Quality Journal, 11(3):211-218, July 2003. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Determining the Distribution of Maintenance Categories: Survey Versus Empirical Study, Stephen R. Schach, Bo Jin, David R. Wright, Gillian Z. Heller, and Jeff Offutt. Kluwer's Empirical Software Engineering, 8(4):351-365, December 2003. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• The Adherence of Open Source Java Programmers to Standard Coding Practices, Mahmoud Elish and Jeff Offutt. The 6th IASTED International Conference Software Engineering and Applications, Cambridge, MA, November 2002. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• An Empirical Comparison of Modularity of Procedural and Object-Oriented Software, Lisa Ferrett and Jeff Offutt. The Eighth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS '02), Greenbelt, MD, November 2002. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Applying a Semantic Fault Model to the Empirical Study of Corrective Maintenance, Jane Huffman Hayes and Jeff Offutt. Eighth IEEE Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance, Montreal, Canada, October 2002. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Maintainability of the Linux Kernel, Steve Schach, Bo Jin, David Wright, Gillian Z. Heller and Jeff Offutt. IEE Proceedings Journal: Special Issue on Open Source Software Engineering, 149(1):18-23, February 2002. [Abstract]       [PDF]

• Stephen R. Schach, Bo Jin, David R. Wright, Gillian Z. Heller, Jeff Offutt. Dependencies Within the Linux Kernel. The ACM Mid-Southeast Chapter Fall Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, November 2001

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