Perhaps the most recognized pioneer in the field is Victor Basili (www.cs.umd.edu/~basili) who not only published some of the earlier work in the area in one o the first “empirical” laboratories (NASA Software Engineering Laboratory) but also founded the Empirical Software Engineering Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/10664) and lead the formation of a community in empirical software engineers [...]
