Victor R. Basili (born 13 April 1940, in Brooklyn, New York), is an emeritus professor at the Department of Computer Science, which is part of the
University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. He holds a
Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public university, public research university in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded in 1883, it is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. With 53,082 stud ...
and two honorary degrees. He is a fellow of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
From 1982 through 1988 he was chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. He is currently a senior research fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering – Maryland and from 1997 to 2004 was its executive director.
He is well known for his works on measuring, evaluating, and improving the
software development process
In software engineering, a software development process or software development life cycle (SDLC) is a process of planning and managing software development. It typically involves dividing software development work into smaller, parallel, or s ...
, as a pioneer of
empirical software engineering, especially through his papers on the
Goal/Question/Metric Approach, the
Quality Improvement Paradigm, and the Experience Factory.
Many of these ideas developed through his affiliation with the
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
Goddard Space Flight Center Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL), which he helped to create and was one of its directors from 1976 through 2002.
Basili received the
ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award
in 2000.
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External links
cs.umd.edu
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1940 births
American computer scientists
1997 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the IEEE
Harvard University alumni
Living people
American engineering academics
Software engineering researchers
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
American software engineers
University of Texas at Austin alumni
20th-century American scientists
21st-century American scientists