Literature survey of Ant Colony Optimization in software testing

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a well known and rapidly evolving meta-heuristic technique. A large number of optimization problems have already taken advantage of the ACO technique while countless others are on their way. A copious amount of effort has also been put in by the researchers for applying ACO in solving various software testing problems. This paper presents a survey of twenty-one such studies, identified as relating to the use of ACO in diverse software testing concepts. To the best of our knowledge, no literature survey could be found published in the same context till date. Consequently, the twenty one studies have been rigorously analyzed to find some common parameters which can be grouped together or compared in order to provide a useful insight into the field.