On understanding laws, evolution, and conservation in the large-program life cycle

The mythical man-month: essays on software engineering

Choice Reviews Online · 1996 · 2.5K citations

Software Maintenance, Engineering, Software Engineering +23

Research directions in software technology

Peter Wegner · International Conference on Software Engineering · 1978 · 63 citations

Software Maintenance, Engineering, Software Engineering +17

The encyclopaedia of ignorance

Anthony R. Michaelis · Endeavour · 1978 · 38 citations

Epistemic Justice, Epistemology, Philosophical Inquiry +3

A mathematical model for the evolution of software

C.M. Woodside · Journal of Systems and Software · 1979 · 24 citations

Software Maintenance, Empirical Software Engineering Research, Engineering +10