Role of Evolutionary algorithms in Software Reliability Optimization

Software Reliability is an important feature of software quality, like other quality attribute as functionality, usability, performance, serviceability, maintainability, documentation etc. This Software reliability optimization is very important in software development field. Lots of software reliability models have been specified in last few years. This paper reviews the different Evolutionary algorithms for reliability optimization to solve challenging problems in the field of academia and industry. There are many algorithms which have been already used for optimization of software reliability model like Genetic, Ant colony optimization, Bee colony optimization, Bacterial Foraging Optimization; Particle swam optimization, BAT, CAT and hybrid. But still there are so many evolutionary algorithms which are still unused. In this paper we explore the role of some of the well known evolutionary techniques for optimizing software reliability.