Ontology-based test generation for multiagent 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 - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2008

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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: (i) generate test inputs; (ii) guide the exploration of the input space during generation; and, (iii) 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.