Reading is a fundermental technology for achieving quality software. This talk provides a motivation for reading as a quality improvement technology, based upon experiences in the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, showing the evolution of our study of reading via a series of experiments. The experiments range from the early reading vs. testing experiments to various Cleanroom experiments that employed reading to the development of new reading techniques currently under study.

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Bio: Dr. Victor R. Basili is a Professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, were he served as chairman for six years. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He was involved in the design and development of several software projects, including the SIMPL family of programming languages. He works on the development of quantitative approaches for software management, engineering, and quality assurance, using models and metrics for improving the software development process and product. He is one of the founders and principals in the Software Engineering Laboratory, a joint venture between NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the University of Maryland and Computer Sciences Corporation, established in 1976, recipient of the first Process Improvement Achievement Award by the IEEE and the SEI in 1994, and a NASA Group Achievement Award in 1996. Basili received the NASA Group Achievement Award for the GRO Ada experiment in 1989, and the NASA/GSFC Productivity Improvement and Quality Enhancement Award for the Cleanroom project in 1990. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, co-editor-and-chief of the International Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, has chaired major conferences, and is an IEEE and ACM Fellow.

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