A Structured Testing Methodology for Knowledge-Based Systems

  • Authors:
  • Abeer El-Korany;Ahmed A. Rafea;Hoda Baraka;Saad Eid

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In recent years, knowledge-based software technology has proven itself to be a valuable tool for solving hitherto intractable problems. Developers of knowledge-based systems must ensure that the system will give its users accurate advice or correct solutions to their problems. Thus, knowledge-based systems must be debugged and validated just like any other piece of software. It has been found that one of the most important problems in developing knowledge-based systems is the lack of methods to verify and validate its KB. The aim of this article is to define a methodology and its supporting tool set that are used together in order to completely test knowledge-based systems. The suggested testing methodology couples different verification and validation activities that are collectively valuable in raising the level of system correctness.