Dr. Pfleeger
is well-known for her work in empirical studies of software engineering
and is the author of many books and articles. She has been named repeatedly
by the Journal of Systems and Software as one of the world's top
software engineering researchers. Among her books are:
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Software Engineering: The Production
of Quality Software (Macmillan, 1987 and 1991)
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Software Metrics: A Rigorous
and Practical Approach (with Norman Fenton; PWS Publishing, 1997)
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Applying
Software Metrics (with Paul Oman; IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997)
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Software Engineering: Theory
and Practice (second edition, Prentice Hall, 2001)
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Solid Software (with
Les Hatton and Chuck Howell; Prentice Hall, 2001)
Shari Lawrence Pfleeger is a
senoir researcher at the Rand Corporation, and president of Systems/Software,
Inc., a consultancy specializing in software engineering and technology.
She has been a developer and maintainer for real-time, business-critical
software systems, a principal scientist at MITRE Corporation's Software
Engineering Center, and manager of the measurement program at the Contel
Technology Center. She has also held several research and teaching
positions at prestigious institutions.
A former associate editor
of IEEE Software and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering,
she is currently a member of the editorial board of Prentice Hall's
Software Quality Institute series.
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