Coelho, Roberta and Cirilo, Elder and Kulesza, Uirá and von Staa, Arndt and Rashid, Awais (2007) JAT:a test automation framework for multi-agent systems. In: Software Maintenance, 2007. ICSM 2007. IEEE International Conference on. IEEE Publishing, pp. 425-434. ISBN 978-1-4244-1256-3
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Automated tests have been widely used as a supporting mechanism during software development and maintenance activities. It improves the confidence on software releases as it seeks to uncover regression bugs, and serves as a live documentation which is very useful when evolving systems. Concerning multi agent systems (MASs), some characteristics such as agent autonomy and asynchronous message-based interaction bring a degree of non-determinism which presents new testing challenges. This paper proposes JAT, a framework for building and running MASs test scenarios, which relies on the use of aspect-oriented techniques to monitor the autonomous agents during tests and control the test input of asynchronous test cases. The tool has been developed on top of JADE, a widely used agent platform implemented in Java. We have used JAT on testing 3 different MASs. Our experience shows that JAT can be used to build test scenarios which can achieve high fault-detection effectiveness.
| Item Type: | Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings |
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| Subjects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications |
| ID Code: | 51125 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_pure |
| Deposited On: | 07 Nov 2011 11:28 |
| Refereed?: | No |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2012 13:22 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/51125 |
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