On the Lack of Consensus Among Technical Debt Detection Tools. - Jason Lefever; Yuanfang Cai; Humberto Cervantes; Rick Kazman; Hongzhou Fang (ICSE (SEIP), 2021)

CIDER: Concept-based Interactive Design Recovery. - Hongzhou Fang; Yuanfang Cai; Rick Kazman; Jason Lefever (ICSE-Companion, 2022)

Identifying Anti-Patterns in Distributed Systems With Heterogeneous Dependencies. - Hongzhou Fang; Yuanfang Cai; Rick Kazman; Jason Lefever (ICSA-C, 2023)

Towards the Assisted Decomposition of Large-Active Files. - Jason Lefever; Yuanfang Cai; Rick Kazman; Hongzhou Fang (ICSA-C, 2023)

M-score: An Empirically Derived Software Modularity Metric. - Ernst Pisch; Yuanfang Cai; Rick Kazman; Jason Lefever; Hongzhou Fang (ESEM, 2024)

Prevalence and severity of design anti-patterns in open source programs - A large-scale study. - Alan Liu; Jason Lefever; Yi Han; Yuanfang Cai (Inf. Softw. Technol., 2024)

Deicide: Decomposing Complex Classes into Responsibility Modules. - Jason Lefever; Yuanfang Cai; Rick Kazman; Ernst Pisch (ICSA, 2025)

Concern-Based Management of Software Design Complexity. - Jason Lefever (ICSE Companion, 2025)

A Holistic Approach to Design Understanding Through Concept Explanation. - Hongzhou Fang; Yuanfang Cai; Ewan D. Tempero; Rick Kazman; Yu-Cheng Tu 001; Jason Lefever; Ernst Pisch (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2025)