AUTOMATED UNIT TESTING FOR AGENT SYSTEMS

Zhiyong Zhang; John Thangarajah; Lin Padgham

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AUTOMATED UNIT TESTING FOR AGENT SYSTEMS

Topics: Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Oriented Software Engineering

In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering ENASE - Volume 1, 10-18, 2007 , Barcelona, Spain

Authors: Zhiyong Zhang ; John Thangarajah and Lin Padgham

Affiliation: RMIT, Australia

Keyword(s): Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, Multi-Agent Systems, Unit Testing.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Agent Models and Architectures ; Agents ; Artificial Intelligence

Abstract: Although agent technology is gaining world wide popularity, a hindrance to its uptake is the lack of proper testing mechanisms for agent based systems. While many traditional software testing methods can be generalized to agent systems, there are many aspects that are different and which require an understanding of the underlying agent paradigm. In this paper we present certain aspects of a testing framework that we have developed for agent based systems. The testing framework is a model based approach using the design models of the Prometheus agent development methodology. In this paper we focus on unit testing and identify the appropriate units, present mechanisms for generating suitable test cases and for determining the order in which the units are to be tested, present a brief overview of the unit testing process and an example. Although we use the design artefacts from Prometheus the approach is suitable for any plan and event based agent system.

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Zhang, Z.; Thangarajah, J. and Padgham, L. (2007). AUTOMATED UNIT TESTING FOR AGENT SYSTEMS. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE; ISBN 978-989-8111-10-4; ISSN 2184-4895, SciTePress, pages 10-18. DOI: 10.5220/0002585900100018

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