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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - ACM Fellow For contributions to empirical software engineering.
  • 1990 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to software quality and productivity.

Overview

Victor R. Basili is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields including Software, Information Systems, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their research contributions cover several areas within software engineering, particularly in Software Engineering Techniques and Practices, Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies, Software Testing and Debugging Techniques, and Software Reliability and Analysis Research.

Victor R. Basili has authored several recent papers, including:

  • Reflections on the Empirical Software Engineering journal, 2021, published in Empirical Software Engineering
  • Toward Measurement-Based Software Engineering, 2025, published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as Empirical Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Their collaborative work includes frequent coauthors Lionel Briand, David M. Weiss, and Dieter Rombach.

Victor R. Basili has received recognition in the form of awards including the ACM Fellow in 1997 for contributions to empirical software engineering and the IEEE Fellow in 1990 for contributions to software quality and productivity.

Best Publications

  • The Goal Question Metric Approach

    Victor R. Basili;Gianluigi Caldiera;H. Dieter Rombach

  • A validation of object-oriented design metrics as quality indicators

    V.R. Basili;L.C. Briand;W.L. Melo

  • The TAME project: towards improvement-oriented software environments

    V.R. Basili;H.D. Rombach

  • Iterative and incremental developments. a brief history

    C. Larman;V.R. Basili

  • A Methodology for Collecting Valid Software Engineering Data

    Victor R. Basili;David M. Weiss

  • Top 10 list [software development]

    B. Boehm;V.R. Basili

  • Building knowledge through families of experiments

    V.R. Basili;F. Shull;F. Lanubile

  • Property-based software engineering measurement

    L.C. Briand;S. Morasca;V.R. Basili

  • The empirical investigation of perspective-based reading

    Victor R. Basili;Scott Green;Oliver Laitenberger;Forrest Shull

  • Experimentation in software engineering

    V. R. Basili;R. W. Selby;D. H. Hutchens

  • Software errors and complexity: an empirical investigation0

    Victor R. Basili;Barry T. Perricone

  • Comparing the Effectiveness of Software Testing Strategies

    V.R. Basili;R.W. Selby

  • Comparing detection methods for software requirements inspections: a replicated experiment

    A.A. Porter;L.G. Votta;V.R. Basili

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  • Iterative enhancement: A practical technique for software development

    V. R. Basili;A. J. Turner

  • Software modeling and measurement: the Goal/Question/Metric paradigm

    Victor R. Basili

  • Identifying and qualifying reusable software components

    G. Caldiera;V.R. Basili

  • The role of experimentation in software engineering: past, current, and future

    Victor R. Basili

  • Empirical Findings in Agile Methods

    Mikael Lindvall;Victor R. Basili;Barry W. Boehm;Patricia Costa

  • How reuse influences productivity in object-oriented systems

    Victor R. Basili;Lionel C. Briand;Walcélio L. Melo

  • Software errors and complexity: an empirical investigation

    Victor Basili;Barry T. Perricone

Frequent Co-Authors

Forrest Shull
Forrest Shull Carnegie Mellon University
Marvin V. Zelkowitz
Marvin V. Zelkowitz University of Maryland, College Park
Carolyn Seaman
Carolyn Seaman University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Lionel C. Briand
Lionel C. Briand University of Ottawa
Jeffrey C. Carver
Jeffrey C. Carver University of Alabama
Jürgen Münch
Jürgen Münch Reutlingen University
Barry Boehm
Barry Boehm University of Southern California
Sandro Morasca
Sandro Morasca University of Insubria
Natalia Juristo
Natalia Juristo Technical University of Madrid
Filippo Lanubile
Filippo Lanubile University of Bari Aldo Moro

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