C. M. Lott's Publications

All of my publications are accessible from this page in PDF format. Each category is sorted beginning with the most recent work.

Publications in Refereed Journals

1. M. A. Fecko and C. M. Lott, ``XML-based requirements engineering for an electronic clearinghouse,'' Information and Software Technology, 47(13), October 2005.
   18 pages; pdf, 654K bytes

2. M. A. Fecko and C. M. Lott, ``Lessons learned from automating tests for an operations support system,'' Software--Practice and Experience, v. 32, October 2002.
   23 pages; pdf, 365K bytes

3. C. M. Lott, ``A controlled experiment to evaluate on-line process guidance,'' Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 2(3), September 1997.
   27 pages; pdf, 94K bytes

4. C. M. Lott, ``Breathing new life into the waterfall model.'' IEEE Software, 14(5), September 1997.
   5 pages; pdf, 20K bytes

5. C. M. Lott and H. D. Rombach, ``Repeatable software engineering experiments for comparing defect-detection techniques,'' Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 1(3), 1996.
   34 pages; pdf, 170K bytes

6. C. M. Lott, ``Measurement support in software engineering environments,'' Int. Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 4(3), September 1994.
   21 pages; pdf, 89K bytes

7. C. M. Lott and H. D. Rombach, ``Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans,'' Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7), June/July 1993.
   18 pages; pdf, 124K bytes

Publications in Non-Refereed Journals

1. C. M. Lott, ``Automating tests on a PowerJ web applet with SilkTest,'' Segue@Work Newsletter, October 2000.
   5 pages; pdf, 25K bytes
   Sample code mentioned in the paper: text, 40k bytes

2. C. M. Lott, ``Process and measurement support in SEEs,'' ACM Software Engineering Notes, 18(4), October 1993.
   16 pages; pdf, 74K bytes

3. C. M. Lott, ``Correctness is congruent with quality,'' ACM Software Engineering Notes, 15(5), October 1990.
   2 pages; pdf, 8K bytes

Publications in Conference Proceedings

1. C. M. Lott, A. Jain, S. Dalal, ``Modeling Requirements for Combinatorial Software Testing,'' Proceedings of A-MOST '05, May 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA.
   7 pages; pdf, 124K bytes

2. M. A. Fecko and C. M. Lott, ``Improving the Requirements Engineering Process for an Electronic Clearinghouse,'' Proceedings of RE'02, September 2002, Essen, Germany.
   9 pages; pdf, 155K bytes

3. S. R. Dalal, A. Jain, N. Karunanithi, J. M. Leaton, C. M. Lott, G. C. Patton, and B. M. Horowitz, ``Model-based testing in practice,'' Proceedings of ICSE'99, May 1999, Los Angeles, California.
   10 pages; pdf, 74K bytes

4. S. R. Dalal, A. Jain, N. Karunanithi, J. M. Leaton, and C. M. Lott, ``Model-based testing of a highly programmable system,'' Proceedings of ISSRE'98, November 1998, Paderborn, Germany.
   5 pages; pdf, 42K bytes

5. C. M. Lott, ``Cost estimation in a highly dynamic software business,'' Proceedings of the 1997 Workshop on Process Modeling and Empirical Studies of Software Evolution, May 1997, Boston, Massachusetts.
   4 pages; pdf, 14K bytes

6. E. Kamsties and C. M. Lott, ``An empirical evaluation of three defect-detection techniques,'' Proceedings of the Fifth European Software Engineering Conference, 25-28 September 1995, Sitges, Spain.
   22 pages; pdf, 120K bytes

7. C. M. Lott, B. Hoisl, and H. D. Rombach, ``The use of roles and measurement to enact project plans in MVP-S,'' Proceedings of the Fourth European Workshop on Software Process Technology, 3-5 April 1995, Leiden, The Netherlands.
   21 pages; pdf, 122K bytes

8. A. Epping and C. M. Lott, ``Does software design complexity affect maintenance effort?'' Proceedings of the 19th NASA/GSFC Software Engineering Workshop, 30 Nov-1 Dec 1994, Greenbelt, Maryland.
   16 pages; pdf, 85K bytes

9. P. Giese, B. Hoisl, C. M. Lott, and H. D. Rombach, ``Data collection in a process-sensitive software engineering environment,'' Proceedings of the Ninth International Software Process Workshop, 5-7 October 1994, Airlie, Virginia.
   3 pages; pdf, 22K bytes

10. H. D. Rombach, A. Bröckers, C. M. Lott, and M. Verlage, ``Development environments for support of quality-oriented project plans'' (German title: Entwicklungsumgebungen zur Unterstützung qualitätsorientierter Projektpläne), Proceedings of Softwaretechnik 93, 8-10 November 1993, Dortmund, Germany.
    8 pages; pdf, 56K bytes

11. C. D. Klingler, M. Neviaser, A. Marmor-Squires, C. M. Lott, and H. D. Rombach, ``A case study in process representation using MVP-L,'' Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Computer Assurance (COMPASS 92), Gaithersburg, Maryland, 15-18 June 1992, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992.
    10 pages; pdf, 70K bytes
    Also, here is a hypertext version of this paper (each section in a separate file).

12. M. Pantelis, C. M. Lott, and H. D. Rombach, ``A MVP-L solution for the software process modeling problem,'' Collected Solutions from the Seventh International Software Process Workshop, Yountsville, California, October 1991.
    42 pages; pdf, 100K bytes

13. C. M. Lott and H. Dieter Rombach, ``An MVP-L1 solution for the software process modeling problem,'' Collected Solutions from the Sixth International Software Process Workshop, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, 29-31 October 1990.
    31 pages; pdf, 99K bytes

Technical Reports

1. Christiane Differding, Barbara Hoisl, and Christopher M. Lott, ``Technology Package for the Goal Question Metric Paradigm,'' Technical Report 281/96, Universität Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, April 1996.
   27 pages; pdf, 67K bytes

2. E. Kamsties and C. M. Lott, ``An empirical evaluation of three defect-detection techniques,'' Technical Report ISERN-95-02, Universität Kaiserslautern, Postfach 3049, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, 1995.
   Note that the on-line version of the technical report does not include the objects or lists of faults in those objects. Please contact me directly if you require these materials.
   90 pages; pdf, 329K bytes

3. A. Bröckers, C. M. Lott, H. D. Rombach and M. Verlage, ``MVP-L language report version 2,'' Technical Report 265/95, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Kaiserslautern, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, 1995.
   94 pages; pdf, 166K bytes

4. A. Bröckers, C. M. Lott, H. D. Rombach and M. Verlage, ``MVP-L language report,'' Technical Report 229/92, Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Kaiserslautern, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, 1992.
   47 pages; pdf, 90K bytes

5. C. M. Lott, ``Defining a virtual machine for executing MVP-L project plans,'' Scholarly paper, Department of Computer Science, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, August 1991.
   42 pages; pdf, 187K bytes

My Ph.D. dissertation

The dissertation was titled ``Measurement-based feedback in a process-centered software engineering environment'' and was supervised by Dr. Victor R. Basili at the University of Maryland. I defended the dissertation on 23 February 1996.
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