Software Engineering: Problems and Perspectives

A Complexity Measure

Thomas J. McCabe · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1976 · 5.8K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Algorithms +15

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules

David Lorge Parnas · Communications of the ACM · 1972 · 4.7K citations · Full text

Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering +16

Time-Dependent Error-Detection Rate Model for Software Reliability and Other Performance Measures

Amrit L. Goel, Kazu Okumoto · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 1979 · 1.8K citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +16

Structured design

W. P. Stevens, G. J. Myers, Larry L. Constantine · IBM Systems Journal · 1974 · 1.2K citations

Engineering, Design, Systems Engineering +7

A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem

Lawrence H. Putnam · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1978 · 804 citations

Management, Operations Management, Budgeting +12