| 2011 | COMPSAC | Error-Based Software Testing and Analysis. | William E. Howden |
| 2011 | ISSRE | Error Models and Software Certification. | William E. Howden |
| 2009 | ICSoft | Applicability of BET to Elusive Bugs in Diverse Application Areas. | M. Chaudhary, B. Chen, P. Desai, R. Hemmatti, F. Lionetti, T. Hachisuka, William E. Howden |
| 2008 | COMPSAC | Superfit Combinational Elusive Bug Detection. | R. Barzin, S. Fukushima, William E. Howden, S. Sharifi |
| 2008 | ICSoft | Elusive Bugs, Bounded Exhaustive Testing and Incomplete Oracles. | William E. Howden |
| 2007 | ICSoft | Test Frameworks for Elusive Bug Testing. | William E. Howden, Cliff Rhyne |
| 2005 | COMPSAC | Software Test Selection Patterns and Elusive Bugs. | William E. Howden |
| 1997 | COMPSAC | Systems testing and statistical test data coverage. | William E. Howden |
| 1997 | ISSRE | Confidence-based reliability and statistical coverage estimation. | William E. Howden |
| 1996 | APSEC | Keynote Address: Auditing Informal Software Testing and Analysis Processes. | William E. Howden |
| 1996 | APSEC | The Derivation of Functional Specifications from Source Code. | William E. Howden, Suehee Pak |
| 1996 | ISSTA | Linear and Structural Event Sequence Analysis. | William E. Howden, G. M. Shi |
| 1995 | COMPSAC | Temporal Event Analysis and Program Understanding. | William E. Howden, G. M. Shi |
| 1994 | ISSRE | Software trustability. | William E. Howden, Yudong Huang |
| 1994 | ISSTA | Confidence Oriented Software Dependability Measurement (Abstract). | William E. Howden, Yudong Huang |
| 1989 | ICSE | Error-Based Validation Completeness. | William E. Howden |
| 1989 | ISSTA | Validating Programs without Specifications. | William E. Howden |
| 1981 | ICSE | Completeness Criteria for Testing Elementary Program Functions. | William E. Howden |
| 1978 | COMPSAC | Functional program testing. | William E. Howden |
| 1978 | ICSE | Theoretical and Empirical Studies of Program Testing. | William E. Howden |
| 1974 | SIGGRAPH | Solution plans and interactive problem solving. | William E. Howden |