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# Publications

Published 2026-05-05

A list of recent publications:

- Karl Beecher. Saros: An Eclipse Plug-in for Distributed Party Programming. *Methods & Tools*, Fall 2011, pp. 44–47, Martinig & Associates, ISSN: 1661-402X.
- Lutz Prechelt, Karl Beecher. Four Generic Issues for Tools-as-Plugins Illustrated by the Distributed Editor Saros. *1st Workshop on Developing Tools as Plug-ins (TOPI ’11)*, Waikiki, Honolulu, USA, May 2011.
- Stephan Salinger, Christopher Oezbek, Karl Beecher, Julia Schenk. Saros: An Eclipse plug-in for distributed party programming. *CHASE 2010 Workshop, co-located with 2010 IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering*, Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.
- Karl Beecher. Evolution in Free Software: A Study of Multiple Repositories. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Lincoln, UK, 2009. (Download thesis here)
- Andrea Capiluppi and Karl Beecher. Structural Complexity and Decay in FLOSS Systems: An Inter-Repository Study. *Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering*, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 2009.
- Karl Beecher, Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff. Identifying exogenous drivers and evolutionary stages in FLOSS projects.*Journal of Systems and Software*, 82, pp. 739 — 750, Elsevier, May 2009.
- Andrea Capiluppi, Cornelia Boldyreff, Karl Beecher and Paul Adams. Quality Factors and Coding Standards: A Comparison Between Forges. *Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (Proceedings of the 2nd SQM Workshop, co-located with the 12th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering*, *Athens, Greece),* vol. 233, March 2009.
- Karl Beecher, Cornelia Boldyreff, Andrea Capiluppi and Stephen Rank. Evolutionary Success of Open Source Software: an Investigation into Exogenous Drivers. *Electronic Communications of the EASST: ERCIM Symposium on Software Evolution*, 17(8), 2008.
- Karl Beecher, Cornelia Boldyreff, Andrea Capiluppi and Stephen Rank. Evolutionary success of Open Source software: an investigation into exogenous drivers, *Proceedings of the EVOL Workshop, co-located with 2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance*, Paris, France, 2007.
- Karl Beecher. The Evolution of Code Quality in Free Software, *Proceedings of the 1st York Doctoral Symposium*, 2007, University of York, UK

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