| 1981 | A Comparison of Lifecycle Models. Pentti Kerola, Peter Freeman |
| 1981 | A Database Model for Effective Configuration Management in the Programming Environment. Karen E. Huff |
| 1981 | A Meta-Model for Software Development Resource Expenditures. John W. Bailey, Victor R. Basili |
| 1981 | A Partition Analysis Method to Increase Program Reliability. Debra J. Richardson, Lori A. Clarke |
| 1981 | A Procedure for Designing Abstract Interfaces for Device Interface Modules. K. H. Britton, R. A. Parker, David Lorge Parnas |
| 1981 | A Report on Random Testing. Joe W. Duran, Simeon C. Ntafos |
| 1981 | A Requirements and Design Aid for Relational Data Bases. M. L. Wilson |
| 1981 | A Robust B-Tree Implementation. James P. Black, David J. Taylor, David E. Morgan |
| 1981 | A Software Methodology for Buidling Interactive Tools. R. W. Lingard |
| 1981 | A User Interface for Online Assistance. Nathan Relles, Lynne A. Price |
| 1981 | Active Data Structures. Gregory R. Andrews, David P. Dobkin, Peter J. Downey |
| 1981 | An Algorithm to Support Code-Skeleton Generation for Concurrent Systems. Maria Heloisa (Lolo) Penedo, Daniel M. Berry, Gerald Estrin |
| 1981 | An Automated Program Testing Methodology and Its Implementation. Dorothy M. Andrews, Jeoffrey P. Benson |
| 1981 | An Incremental Programming Environment. Peter H. Feiler, Raul Medina-Mora |
| 1981 | An Index Organization for Applications with Highly Skewed Access Patterns. Christer Hultén |
| 1981 | An Innovative Approach to System Requirements Analysis by Using Structural Modeling Method. N. Komoda, K. Haruna, H. Kaji, H. Shinozawa |
| 1981 | An Interactive Tool for Program Manipulation. Anne Adam, Paul Y. Gloess, Jean-Pierre H. Laurent |
| 1981 | Application Downloading. Robert Balzer, Alvin S. Cooperband, Martin S. Feather, Philip E. London, David S. Wile |
| 1981 | BIGMAC II: A FORTRAN Language Augmentation Tool. Eugene W. Myers, Leon J. Osterweil |
| 1981 | Beyond ALBE/P: Language Neutral Form. J. W. Lewis |
| 1981 | Completeness Criteria for Testing Elementary Program Functions. William E. Howden |
| 1981 | Conspectus of Software Engineering Environments. Hans-Ludwig Hausen, Monika Müllerburg |
| 1981 | Development of Computer Programs by Problem Analysis Diagram (PAD). Y. Futamura, T. Kawai, H. Horikoshi, M. Tsutsumi |
| 1981 | Early Experiences with Euclid. David B. Wortman, James R. Cordy |
| 1981 | Evaluation of a Software Requirements Document by Analysis of Change Data. Victor R. Basili, David M. Weiss |
| 1981 | Executable Requirements for Embedded Systems. Pamela Zave, Raymond T. Yeh |
| 1981 | Experience with Application of Modern Software Management Controls. D. L. Paster |
| 1981 | Experience with a Modular Typed Language: PROTEL. P. M. Cashin, Marc L. Joliat, Rym F. Kamel, D. M. Lasker |
| 1981 | HFP: A Hierarchical and Functional Programming Based on Attribute Grammar. T. Katayama |
| 1981 | Implementing a Software Management Discipline. Robert E. Loesh, B. Larman, P. Molko, Donald J. Reifer |
| 1981 | Interactive Software Development Tool: ISDT. Motoei Azuma, M. Takahashi, Susumu Kamiya, K. Minomura |
| 1981 | Lilith: A Personal Computer for the Software Engineer. Niklaus Wirth |
| 1981 | Methods for Improving Controlled Experimentation in Software Engineering. Thomas G. Moher, G. Michael Schneider |
| 1981 | On the Time Overhead of Counters and Traversal Markers. Ira R. Forman |
| 1981 | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software Engineering, San Diego, California, USA, March 9-12, 1981. Seymour Jeffrey, Leon G. Stucki |
| 1981 | Program Complexity Measure for Software Development Management. Takeshi Sunohara, Akira Takano, Kenji Uehara, Tsutomu Ohkawa |
| 1981 | Program Refinement by Transsformation. Thomas E. Cheatham Jr., Glenn H. Holloway, Judy A. Townley |
| 1981 | Program Slicing. Mark D. Weiser |
| 1981 | Prototyping as a Tool in the Specification of User Requirements. Hassan Gomaa, D. B. H. Scott |
| 1981 | Resource = Abstract Data Type + Synchronization - A Methodology for Message Oriented Programming. Paulo R. F. Cunha, T. S. E. Maibaum |
| 1981 | Software Architecture Based on Communicating Residential Environments. Erik Sandewall, Claes Strömberg, Henrik Sörensen |
| 1981 | Specifying and Proving Properties of Sentinel Processes. Krithi Ramamritham, Robert M. Keller |
| 1981 | Sufficient Tset Sets for Path Analysis Testing Strategies. Steven J. Zeil, Lee J. White |
| 1981 | The Effect of Modularization and Comments on Program Comprehension. Scott N. Woodfield, Hubert E. Dunsmore, Vincent Y. Shen |
| 1981 | The Effects of Symbology and Spatial Arrangement on the Comprehension of Software Specifications. Sylvia B. Sheppard, Elizabeth Kruesi, Bill Curtis |
| 1981 | The Evolution of Programs: Program Abstraction and Instantiation. Nachum Dershowitz |
| 1981 | The Finalization Operation for Abstract Types. Richard L. Schwartz, P. M. Melliar-Smith |
| 1981 | The Two-Step Commitment Protocol: Modeling, Specification and Proof Methodology. Jean-Loup Baer, Georges Gardarin, Claude Girault, Gérard Roucairol |
| 1981 | Use of Cluster Analysis to Evaluate Software Engineering Methodologies. Eric Chen, Marvin V. Zelkowitz |
| 1981 | User Software Engineering and the Design of Interactive Systems. Anthony I. Wasserman |
| 1981 | Using Attributed Grammars to Test Designs and Implementations. Arthur G. Duncan, John S. Hutchison |