Automated unit testing intelligent agents in PDT
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: demo papers
Run-time conformance checking of mobile and distributed systems using executable models
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Systems: Testing, Analysis, and Debugging
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Agent-based software engineering combines the strengths of agent theory with the practical software engineering methods for developing large intelligent systems. Designing and implementing agent-based systems are complicated tasks because the agent's BDI characteristics (Beliefs, Desires, Intentions) when codified in the design/implementation as software characteristics may have acquired diflerent connotations. Consequently testing the reliability of the implementation is equally hard. It is necessary to choose an agent's software abstraction that has a minimal deviation from the BDI agent concept, and use it as a formal basis to test an implementation. This paper proposes one such method for conformance testing of BDI properties in an agent-based system.