Basili, which significantly have shaped the field of empirical software engineering from its very beginning. He was the first to claim that software engineering is required to follow the model of other physical sciences and develop an experimental paradigm. He is one of the pioneers of some software that can be asserted that their results are not only scientifically recognized but is also used as an industry standard. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, celebrated with a symposium in his honor at the International Conference on Software Engineering in St. The result is this collection of timeless pillar commenting software engineering, until now only available in scattered publications.