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The influence of organizational structure on software quality: an empirical case study by Nagappan, Nachiappan, Murphy, Brendan, Basili, Victor

“…Often software systems are developed by organizations consisting of many teams of individuals working together. Brooks states in the Mythical Man Month book…”
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Iterative and incremental development: A brief history by Larman, Craig, Basili, Victor R

“…Although many view iterative and incremental development as a modern practice, its application dates as far back as the mid-1950s. Prominent…”
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Software defect reduction top 10 list by Boehm, Barry, Basili, Victor R

“…Software's complexity and accelerated development schedules make avoiding defects difficult. Boehm and Basili present ten techniques to help reduce flaws in…”
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Linking Software Development and Business Strategy Through Measurement by Basili, Victor R, Lindvall, Mikael, Regardie, Myrna, Seaman, Carolyn, Heidrich, Jens, Munch, Jurgen, Rombach, Dieter, Trendowicz, Adam

“…The GQM+Strategies approach extends the goal/question/metric paradigm for measuring the success or failure of goals and strategies, adding enterprise-wide…”
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Building knowledge through families of experiments by Basili, V.R., Shull, F., Lanubile, F.

“…Experimentation in software engineering is necessary but difficult. One reason is that there are a large number of context variables and, so, creating a…”
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Understanding the High-Performance-Computing Community: A Software Engineer's Perspective by Basili, V.R., Carver, J.C., Cruzes, D., Hochstein, L.M., Hollingsworth, J.K., Shull, F., Zelkowitz, M.V.

“…Computational scientists developing software for HPC systems face unique software engineering issues. Attempts to transfer SE technologies to this domain must…”
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Maturing Software Engineering Knowledge through Classifications: A Case Study on Unit Testing Techniques by Vegas, S., Juristo, N., Basili, V.R.

“…Classification makes a significant contribution to advancing knowledge in both science and engineering. It is a way of investigating the relationships between…”
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A pilot study to compare programming effort for two parallel programming models by Hochstein, Lorin, Basili, Victor R., Vishkin, Uzi, Gilbert, John

“…Writing software for the current generation of parallel systems requires significant programmer effort, and the community is seeking alternatives that reduce…”
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A validation of object-oriented design metrics as quality indicators by Basili, V.R., Briand, L.C., Melo, W.L.

“…This paper presents the results of a study in which we empirically investigated the suite of object-oriented (OO) design metrics introduced in (Chidamber and…”
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An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2003–2007 and 2004–2008) by Wong, W. Eric, Tse, T.H., Glass, Robert L., Basili, Victor R., Chen, T.Y.

“…An ongoing, annual survey of publications in systems and software engineering identifies the top 15 scholars and institutions in the field over a 5-year…”
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The ASC-Alliance Projects: A Case Study of Large-Scale Parallel Scientific Code Development by Hochstein, L., Basili, V.R.

“…Computational scientists face many challenges when developing software that runs on large-scale parallel machines. However, software-engineering researchers…”
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Property-based software engineering measurement by Briand, L.C., Morasca, S., Basili, V.R.

“…Little theory exists in the field of software system measurement. Concepts such as complexity, coupling, cohesion or even size are very often subject to…”
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An operational process for goal-driven definition of measures by Briand, L.C., Morasca, S., Basili, V.R.

“…We propose an approach (GOM/MEDEA) for defining measures of product attributes in software engineering. The approach is driven by the experimental goals of…”
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Defining and validating measures for object-based high-level design by Briand, L.C., Morasca, S., Basili, V.R.

“…The availability of significant measures in the early phases of the software development life-cycle allows for better management of the later phases, and more…”
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An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2002–2006) by Wong, W. Eric, Tse, T.H., Glass, Robert L., Basili, Victor R., Chen, T.Y.

“…This paper summarizes a survey of publications in the field of systems and software engineering from 2002 to 2006. The survey is an ongoing, annual event that…”
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Reflections on the Empirical Software Engineering journal by Basili, Victor, Briand, Lionel

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Lessons learned from 25 years of process improvement: the rise and fall of the NASA software engineering laboratory by Basili, Victor R., McGarry, Frank E., Pajerski, Rose, Zelkowitz, Marvin V.

“…For 25 years the NASA/GSFC Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) has been a major resource in software process improvement activities. But due to a changing…”
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A unified model of dependability: capturing dependability in context by Basili, V., Donzelli, P., Asgari, S.

“…In contemporary societies, individuals and organizations increasingly depend on services delivered by sophisticated software-intensive systems to achieve…”
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An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2001–2005) by Wong, W. Eric, Tse, T.H., Glass, Robert L., Basili, Victor R., Chen, T.Y.

“…This paper presents the findings of a five-year study of the top scholars and institutions in the systems and software engineering field, as measured by the…”
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Comparing detection methods for software requirements inspections: a replicated experiment by Porter, A.A., Votta, L.G., Basili, V.R.

“…Software requirements specifications (SRS) are often validated manually. One such process is inspection, in which several reviewers independently analyze all…”
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