Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA)

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

The 4+1 View Model of architecture

Philippe Kruchten · IEEE Software · 1995 · 2.1K citations · Full text

Computing, Project Management, Systems Engineering +16

Foundations for the study of software architecture

Dewayne E. Perry, Alexander L. Wolf · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 1992 · 2K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Software Engineering +11

A classification and comparison framework for software architecture description languages

Nenad Medvidović, Richard N. Taylor · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2000 · 2K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Programming Languages +12

Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation

Alan J. Albrecht, John E. Gaffney · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1983 · 1.6K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Programming Languages +16