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Foundations of Empirical Software Engineering
Legacy of Victor R. Basili
> Event
Description
> Program
Date: Monday
- 16 May
Organizers: Barry
Boehm, Dieter Rombach & Marvin Zelkowitz
Rose Garden
Room [Floor
Plan] |
Although software engineering can trace its beginning to a NATO conference
in 1968, it cannot be said to have become an empirical science until the 1970s
with the advent of work of Professor Victor R. Basili of the University
of Maryland. In addition to the need for engineering software was the need to
understand software as well as its developing processes, techniques, methods
and tools. Much like other sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, software
engineering needed a discipline of observation, theory formation, experimentation
and feedback. By applying the scientific method to the software engineering
domain, Vic Basili developed concepts like the Goal-Question-Metric method,
the Quality-Improvement paradigm, and the Experience-Factory approach to help
bring a sense of order to the ad-hoc development so prevalent in the software
engineering field.
On the occasion of Vic Basili’s 65th
birthday, we hold this symposium summarizing and reflecting on his collected
work. In six sessions we will
cover his contributions to the following areas of software engineering
research
> Formal languages & formal
methods
> Measurement
> Software Engineering Laboratory
> Learning organizations & experience
factory
> Technical developments and empirical studies
> Experience bases
Each session will be summarized by a leading
expert who has worked with Vic Basili in the past. This collected body
of work has incrementally led
to the establishment of the discipline of “experimental software engineering”.
In that the symposium will be interesting to people who have followed Vic
Basili’s work more or less closely in the past, but also to young
researchers who can learn from his profound and thorough research methods
in order to
model their own careers.
Registration for the event will be handled
through the ICSE registration.
Included in the registration fee ($120) you will receive a copy of the
book published by Springer Verlag
which includes reprints of milestone papers and summaries w.r.t. all sessions.
Program
| 09:00 |
Welcome,
Introduction, & Summary of Vic Basili's Biography |
Barry Boehm |
USC |
| Technical
Presentations (Chair: Dieter Rombach, U. of Kaiserslautern and Fraunhofer
Institute of Experimental Software Engineering) |
| 09:45 |
Session
1 - Formal languages & formal
methods |
Ali Mili |
New Jersey Institute
of Technology |
| 10:30 |
BREAK |
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| 11:00 |
Session
2 - Measurement |
Lionel Briand |
Carleton U |
| 11:45 |
Session
3 - Software Engineering Laboratory |
Michael A. Cusumano |
MIT |
| 12:30 |
LUNCH |
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| 14:00 |
Session
4 - Learning Organization & Experience
Factory |
Jyrki Kontio |
Helsinki University of
Technology |
| 14:45 |
Session
5 - Technical Development & Empirical Studies |
Forrest Shull |
Fraunhofer Center
Maryland |
| 15:30 |
BREAK |
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| 16:00 |
Session
6 - Experience Bases |
Ross Jeffery |
U. of New South Wales |
| 16:45 |
Response of Vic Basili:
Current Research, Q&A & Closing |
Victor Basili |
U. of Maryland |
| 18:30 |
Dinner at
a nearby restaurant, graciously funded by several corporate contributors
for all symposium attendees. |
