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Structured Acceptance Test Suite Generation Process for Multi-Agent System

Author(s) -

Belkacem Athamena,

Zina Houhamdi

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

computer and information science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1913-8997

pISSN - 1913-8989

DOI - 10.5539/cis.v5n1p55

Subject(s) - computer science , agent oriented software engineering , software engineering , test suite , process (computing) , context (archaeology) , acceptance testing , suite , test strategy , software , systems engineering , software development , test case , machine learning , programming language , history , paleontology , regression analysis , archaeology , engineering , biology

In recent years, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies are proposed to develop complex distributed systems based upon the agent paradigm. The implementation for such systems has usually the form of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). Testing of MAS is a challenging task because these systems are often programmed to be autonomous and deliberative, and they operate in an open world, which requires context awareness. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for goal-oriented software acceptance testing. It specifies a testing process that complements the goal oriented methodology Tropos and strengthens the mutual relationship between goal analysis and testing. Furthermore, it defines a structured and comprehensive acceptance testing process for engineering software agents by providing a systematic way of deriving test cases from goal analysis.

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