This paper investigates software agents testing, and in particular how to automate test generation. We propose a novel approach, which takes advantage of agent interaction ontologies that define content semantic of agent interactions to: (1) generate test inputs; (2) guide the exploration of the input space during generation; and, (3) verify messages exchanged among agents with respect to the defined interaction ontology. We integrated the proposed approach into a testing framework, called eCAT, which can generate and evolve test cases automatically, and run them continuously.
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Titolo: | Ontology-based Test Generation for Multi Agent Systems |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2008 |
Abstract: | This paper investigates software agents testing, and in particular how to automate test generation. We propose a novel approach, which takes advantage of agent interaction ontologies that define content semantic of agent interactions to: (1) generate test inputs; (2) guide the exploration of the input space during generation; and, (3) verify messages exchanged among agents with respect to the defined interaction ontology. We integrated the proposed approach into a testing framework, called eCAT, which can generate and evolve test cases automatically, and run them continuously. |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11582/3673 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |