Open AccessMATT: Multi Agents Testing Tool Based Nets within Nets
Author(s) -
Sara Kerraoui,
Yacine Kissoum,
Mohammed Redjimi,
Moussa Saker
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of information and organizational sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.146
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1846-9418
pISSN - 1846-3312
DOI - 10.31341/jios.40.2.1
Subject(s) - computer science , test strategy , task (project management) , model based testing , quality (philosophy) , integration testing , product (mathematics) , non regression testing , software , test case , reliability engineering , machine learning , software system , systems engineering , engineering , software construction , programming language , philosophy , regression analysis , geometry , mathematics , epistemology
Testing is a software development activity, devoted to evaluating product quality and improving it by identifying defects and problems. Concerning multi agent systems, testing is a challenging task, which asks for new testing techniques dealing with their specific nature. The techniques need to be effective and adequate to evaluate agent’s autonomous behaviors and build confidence in them.The "Model Based Testing" (MBT) is a technique particularly interested among all existing solutions of tests. This latter is based on a system model, which produces abstract test cases. To run these last ones against systems under test,the abstract test cases have to be transformed to concrete ones.As part of this effort, we propose a model based testing approach for multi agent systems based on such a model called Reference net, where a tool, which aims to providing a uniform and automated approach is developed. The feasibility and the advantage of the proposed approach are shown through a short case study.