What do the software reliability growth model parameters represent?

Yashwant K. Malaiya, Jason Denton. What do the software reliability growth model parameters represent?. In Eighth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 1997, Albuquerque, NM, USA, November 2-5, 1997. pages 124-135, IEEE Computer Society, 1997. [doi]

@inproceedings{MalaiyaD97,
  title = {What do the software reliability growth model parameters represent?},
  author = {Yashwant K. Malaiya and Jason Denton},
  year = {1997},
  doi = {10.1109/ISSRE.1997.630857},
  url = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ISSRE.1997.630857},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/MalaiyaD97},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {124-135},
  booktitle = {Eighth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE 1997, Albuquerque, NM, USA, November 2-5, 1997},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  isbn = {0-8186-8120-9},
}