A Multi-Agent Software Environment for Testing Web-based Applications

  • Authors:
  • Qingning Huo;Hong Zhu;Sue Greenwood

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • COMPSAC '03 Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Computer Software and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents an agent-based software environmentfor testing web-based applications. The infrastructureof the system consists of a lightweight agent platformthat supports agent communication, an ontology of softwaretesting that enables flexible integration of multipleagents, and a formalism using XML to represent both thebasic and compound concepts of the ontology. Relationsbetween testing concepts are defined and their propertiesare analysed. A number of agents are implemented toperform various tasks in testing web-based applications.Broker agents use the ontology as a means of inferences tomanage the knowledge about agents and assign each taskto the most appropriate agent.