<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Basili, Victor R.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The role of experimentation in software engineering: past, current, and future</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering</style></secondary-title><tertiary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ICSE '96</style></tertiary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1996</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=227726.227818</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">IEEE Computer Society</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Washington, DC, USA</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">442–449</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0-8186-7246-3</style></isbn><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Software engineering needs to follow the model of other physical sciences and develop an experimental paradigm for the field. This paper proposes the approach towards developing an experimental component of such a paradigm. The approach is based upon a quality improvement paradigm that addresses the role of experimentation and process improvement in the context of industrial development. The paper outlines a classification scheme for characterizing such experiments.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>