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Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering - The Legacy of Victor R. Basili (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering - The Legacy of Victor R. Basili (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
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Although software engineering can trace its beginnings to a NATO
conf- ence in 1968, it cannot be said to have become an empirical
science until the 1970s with the advent of the work of Prof. Victor
Robert Basili of the University of Maryland. In addition to the
need to engineer software was the need to understand software. Much
like other sciences, such as physics, chemistry, and biology,
software engineering needed a discipline of obs- vation, theory
formation, experimentation, and feedback. By applying the
scientific method to the software engineering domain, Basili
developed concepts like the Goal-Question-Metric method, the
Quality-Improvement- Paradigm, and the Experience Factory to help
bring a sense of order to the ad hoc developments so prevalent in
the software engineering field. On the occasion of Basili's 65th
birthday, we present this book c- taining reprints of 20 papers
that defined much of his work. We divided the 20 papers into 6
sections, each describing a different facet of his work, and asked
several individuals to write an introduction to each section.
Instead of describing the scope of this book in this preface, we
decided to let one of his papers, the keynote paper he gave at the
International C- ference on Software Engineering in 1996 in Berlin,
Germany to lead off this book. He, better than we, can best
describe his views on what is - perimental software engineering.
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