Providing an empirical basis for optimizing the verification and testing phases of software development. - Lionel C. Briand; Victor R. Basili; Christopher J. Hetmanski (ISSRE, 1992)

Modeling and Managing Risk Early in Software Development. - Lionel C. Briand; William M. Thomas; Christopher J. Hetmanski (ICSE, 1993)

Developing Interpretable Models with Optimized Set Reduction for Identifying High-Risk Software Components. - Lionel C. Briand; Victor R. Basili; Christopher J. Hetmanski (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 1993)