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The Center for Empirically-Based Software Engineering has been established by the University of Southern California (USC) and the University of Maryland (UMD), under the sponsorship of the National Science foundation (NSF), to strengthen and propagate the results of empirical research in software engineering. Results take two main forms:
- Improved empirical understanding of software engineering project phenomenology via experimental data, predictive and descriptive models, and quantitative and qualitative observational analyses.
- Improved methods and techniques, such as the Experience Factory and Goal-Model-Question-Metric paradigms, experimental design techniques, and predictive model development and validation methods.
A number of organizations have recognized the value of CeBASE and such research in evaluating software technology readiness and in improving software quality, productivity, and cycle time. USC and UMD have several dozen industrial affiliate organizations, which support and collaborate on such initiatives as USC’s COCOMO II family of parametric estimation models and UMD’s Perspective-Based Reviewing techniques. NASA has also included CeBASE in the plans for its High Dependability Computing initiative.
More information is available at www.cebase.org
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