A New Software Reliability Growth Model: Multigeneration Faults and a Power-Law Testing-Effort Function

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Total cost as a function of desired reliability level, with estimated values based on Apache 2.0.36. The type-II reliability definition is adopted for such analysis. Solid line: our proposed mode; dot line: the Only- model; dash-dot line: the No- model; dash line: the Goel-Okumoto model.