Research Article

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

Table 1

Detected faults (days from release and number of errors) for three versions of Apache, 2.0.35/2.0.36/2.0.39. Note that some failure data is not shown due to page limit. For example, as no faults are detected on the 42nd day in Apache 2.0.35, no failure data is shown on this day.

Apache 2.0.35Apache 2.0.36Apache 2.0.39
Days from releaseDetected errorsDays from releaseDetected errorsDays from releaseDetected errors

151211
252522
343132
414143
525153
647272
768181
829191
101103101
118122111
125131153
132152162
142171173
151182181
172211191
183251223
194271231
201292241
214302252
232313261
241321281
251333291
262341302
271353311
282383321
311401353
341431381
431441391
1031421
431
493
501
511
571
661
701
811
1641