Download or read book Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Algorithms in Software Engineering: Applications and Techniques written by Chis, Monica and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary Computation and Optimization Algorithms in Software Engineering: Applications and Techniques lays the foundation for the successful integration of evolutionary computation into software engineering. It surveys techniques ranging from genetic algorithms, to swarm optimization theory, to ant colony optimization, demonstrating their uses and capabilities. These techniques are applied to aspects of software engineering such as software testing, quality assessment, reliability assessment, and fault prediction models, among others, to providing researchers, scholars and students with the knowledge needed to expand this burgeoning application.