eCAT: a tool for automating test cases generation and execution in testing multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Cu D. Nguyen;Anna Perini;Paolo Tonella

  • Affiliations:
  • Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy;Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: demo papers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We introduce eCAT, a tool that supports deriving test cases semi-automatically from goal-based analysis diagrams, generates meaningful test inputs based on agent interaction ontology, and more importantly it can evolve and execute test cases automatically and continuously on a multi-agent system (MAS). Our experiments have shown that the proposed tool can exercise MAS more extensively and effectively than manual testing under the usual time constraints.