Victor Basili

Professor Emeritus

(301) 405-2668

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Education:

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Special Awards/Honors:

ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow

Biography:

Victor Basili is a professor emeritus of computer science in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

His research focuses on empirical software engineering. Shaping the field from its inception, Basili was the first to claim that software engineering needed to follow the model of other physical sciences and develop an experimental paradigm.

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Publications

1999

Zhang Z, Basili VR, Shneiderman B. 1999. Perspective-based Usability Inspection: An Empirical Validation of Efficacy. Empirical Software Engineering. 4(1):43-69.

1998

Zhang Z, Basili VR, Shneiderman B. 1998. An Empirical Study of Perspective-Based Usability Inspection. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual MeetingProceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 42(19):1346-1350.

1997

Morasca S, Briand LC, Basili VR, Weyuker EJ, Zelkowitz MV, Kitchenham B, Lawrence Pfleeger S, Fenton N. 1997. Comments on "Towards a framework for software measurement validation". Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 23(3):187-189.

1996

Basili VR, Green S, Laitenberger O, Lanubile F, Shull F, Sørumgård S, Zelkowitz MV. 1996. The empirical investigation of Perspective-Based Reading. Empirical Software Engineering. 1(2):133-164.

1995

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, McGarry F, Page J, Waligora S, Pajerski R. 1995. SEL's software process improvement program. Software, IEEE. 12(6):83-87.

Porter A, Votta LG, Basili VR. 1995. Comparing detection methods for software requirements inspections: a replicated experiment. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 21(6):563-575.

1994

McGarry F, Pajerski R, Page G, Waligora S, Basili VR. 1994. Software Process Improvement in the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory..

1985

Gannon J, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Yeh R. 1985. Research in Programming Languages and Software Engineering..

1984

Basili VR, Chang S, Gannon J, Katz E, Panlilio-Yap MN, Ramsey C L, Zelkowitz MV, Bailey J, Kruesi E, Sheppard S. 1984. Monitoring an Ada software development. ACM SIG Ada Letters. IV(1):32-39.

Zelkowitz MV, Yeh RT, Hamlet RG, Gannon JD, Basili VR. 1984. Software Engineering Practices in the US and Japan. Computer. 17(6):57-66.

1983

Zelkowitz MV, Yeh R, Hamlet RG, Gannon JD, Basili VR. 1983. The Software Industry: A State of the Art Survey. Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering: The Legacy of Victor R. Basili. 1:383-383.

1979

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 1979. Measuring software development characteristics in the local environment. Computers & Structures. 10(1–2):39-43.

1978

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 1978. Operation of the Software Engineering Laboratory. Proceedings of the Second US Army/IEEE Software Life Cycle Management Workshop. New York: Computer Societies Press.

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 1978. Analyzing medium-scale software development. Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering. :116-123.

1977

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 1977. The software engineering laboratory: Objectives. Proceedings of the fifteenth annual SIGCPR conference. :256-269.