Analysis of software security testing using metaheuristic search technique

Metaheuristic search technique is one of the advance approach when compared with traditional heuristic search technique. To select one option among different alternatives is not hard to get but really hard is give assurance that being cost effective. This hard problem is solved by the meta-heuristic search technique with the help of fitness function. Fitness function is a crucial metrics or a measure which helps in deciding which solution is optimal to choose from available set of test sets. This paper discusses hill climbing, simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization techniques in detail explaining with the help of the algorithm. If metaheuristic search techniques combine some of the security testing methods, it would result in better searching technique as well as secure too. This paper primarily focusses on the metaheuristic search techniques.