| 2025 | APSEC | Explainable Software Engineering: From State of the Practice to State of the Art. | Zheng Li, Maria Angela Ferrario, Ben Crossey, Austen Rainer |
| 2023 | APSEC | Exploiting Paired Concepts to Facilitate Software Engineering Education. | Zheng Li, Austen Rainer |
| 2022 | CloudCom | On Kubernetes-aided Federated Database Systems. | Zheng Li, Nicols Saldas-Vallejos, Mara Andrea Rodrguez, Austen Rainer |
| 2022 | PROFES | Managing the Root Causes of "Internal API Hell": An Experience Report. | Guillermo Cabrera-Vives, Zheng Li, Austen Rainer, Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Diego Rodrguez-Mancini, Francisco Frster |
| 2021 | EASE | Storytelling in human-centric software engineering research. | Austen Rainer |
| 2021 | EASE | Towards a corpus for credibility assessment in software practitioner blog articles. | Ashley Williams, Matthew Shardlow, Austen Rainer |
| 2019 | EASE | How do empirical software engineering researchers assess the credibility of practitioner-generated blog posts? | Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer |
| 2019 | EASE | Do software engineering practitioners cite software testing research in their online articles?: A larger scale replication. | Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer |
| 2019 | ICSOC | Mobile Apps with Dynamic Bindings Between the Fog and the Cloud. | Dionysis Athanasopoulos, Mitchell McEwen, Austen Rainer |
| 2017 | EASE | Interactive Posters: An Alternative to Collect Practitioners' Experience. | Philipp Diebold, Matthias Galster, Austen Rainer, Sherlock A. Licorish |
| 2017 | EASE | Investigating developers' email discussions during decision-making in Python language evolution. | Pankajeshwara Sharma, Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu, Nigel Stanger, Sherlock A. Licorish, Austen Rainer |
| 2017 | EASE | Toward the use of blog articles as a source of evidence for software engineering research. | Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer |
| 2016 | APSEC | Identifying Practitioners' Arguments and Evidence in Blogs: Insights from a Pilot Study. | Ashley Williams, Austen Rainer |
| 2010 | SGAI | Selecting Features in Origin Analysis. | Pam Green, Peter C. R. Lane, Austen Rainer, Sven-Bodo Scholz |
| 2009 | EASE | An assessment of published evaluations of requirements management tools. | Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham, Cei Sanderson |
| 2008 | EASE | A follow-up empirical evaluation of evidence based software engineering by undergraduate students. | Austen Rainer, Sarah Beecham |
| 2006 | EASE | A Preliminary Empirical Investigation of the Use of Evidence Based Software Engineering by Under-graduate Students. | Austen Rainer, Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo |