SUNIT: A Unit Testing Framework for Test Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems

Tiryaki, Ali Murat; Öztuna, Sibel; Dikenelli, Oğuz; Erdur, Rıza Cenk

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70945-9_10

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“…A tester agent is used in the testing framework to automate the execution of test cases. Tiryaki develops the SUNIT [27] testing framework, which tests the agent systems developed by the Seagent platform [28]. SUNIT, which is also on top of JUNIT, specifies a set of APIs for human developers to manually generate test cases based on the SEAGENT model of an agent system.…”

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Automated Testing for Intelligent Agent Systems

Zhang

Thangarajah

Padgham

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper describes an approach to unit testing of plan based agent systems, with a focus on automated generation and execution of test cases. Design artefacts, supplemented with some additional data, provide the basis for specification of a comprehensive suite of test cases. Correctness of execution is evaluated against a design model, and a comprehensive report of errors and warnings is provided to the user. Given that it is impossible to design test suites which execute all possible traces of an agent program, it is extremely important to thoroughly test all units in as wide a variety of situations as possible to ensure acceptable behaviour. We provide details of the information required in design models or related data to enable the automated generation and execution of test cases. We also briefly describe the implemented tool which realises this approach.

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Automated Testing for Intelligent Agent Systems

Zhang

Thangarajah

Padgham

2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Mock agents that simulate real agents in communicating with the agent under test are implemented manually, each corresponding to one agent role. Sharing this inspiration from JUnit [8], Tiryaki et al [19] proposed a test-driven MAS development approach that supports iterative and incremental MAS construction. A testing framework called SUnit, which is built on top of JUnit and Seagent [7], was developed to support the approach, allowing the writing of tests for agent behaviours and interactions between agents.…”

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Evolutionary testing of autonomous software agents

Nguyen

Perini

Tonella

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Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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A system built in terms of autonomous agents may require even greater correctness assurance than one which is merely reacting to the immediate control of its users. Agents make substantial decisions for themselves, so thorough testing is an important consideration. However, autonomy also makes testing harder; by their nature, autonomous agents may react in different ways to the same inputs over time, because, for instance they have changeable goals and knowledge. For this reason, we argue that testing of autonomous agents requires a procedure that caters for a wide range of test case contexts, and that can search for the most demanding of these test cases, even when they are not apparent to the agents' developers. In this paper, we address this problem, introducing and evaluating an approach to testing autonomous agents that uses evolutionary optimization to generate demanding test cases.

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“…Mock agents that simulate real agents in communicating with the agent under test were implemented manually; each corresponds to one agent role. Sharing the inspiration from JUnit [15] with Coelho et al [8], Tiryaki et al [40] proposed a test-driven MAS development approach that supported iterative and incremental MAS construction. A testing framework called SUnit, which was built on top of JUnit and Seagent [12], was developed to support the approach.…”

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Multi-Agent System Testing: A Survey

Houhamdi¹

2011

IJACSA

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Abstract-In recent years, agent-based systems have received considerable attention in both academics and industry. The agent-oriented paradigm can be considered a natural extension to the object-oriented (OO) paradigm. Agents differ from objects in many issues which require special modeling elements but have some similarities. Although there is a well-defined OO testing technique, agent-oriented development has neither a standard development process nor a standard testing technique. In this paper, we will give an introduction to most recent works presented in the area of testing distributed systems composed of complex autonomous entities (agents). We will provide pointers to work by large players in the field. We will explain why this kind of system must be handled differently than less complex systems.

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SUNIT: A Unit Testing Framework for Test Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems

Cited by 35 publications

References 13 publications

Automated Testing for Intelligent Agent Systems

Automated Testing for Intelligent Agent Systems

Evolutionary testing of autonomous software agents

Multi-Agent System Testing: A Survey

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