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Unit testing in multi-agent systems using mock agents and aspects

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Roberta Coelho,

Arndt von Staa,

Carlos LucenaAuthors Info & Claims

SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

Pages 83 - 90

https://doi.org/10.1145/1138063.1138079

Published: 22 May 2006 Publication History

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In this paper, we present a unit testing approach for MASs based on the use of Mock Agents. Each Mock Agent is responsible for testing a single role of an agent under successful and exceptional scenarios. Aspect-oriented techniques are used, in our testing approach, to monitor and control the execution of asynchronous test cases. We present an implementation of our approach on top of JADE platform, and show how we extended JUnit test framework in order to execute JADE test cases.

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Unit testing in multi-agent systems using mock agents and aspects
1. Software and its engineering
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        Software testing and debugging

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SELMAS '06: Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems

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117 pages

ISBN:1595933956

DOI:10.1145/1138063

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Ricardo Choren
Military Institute of Engineering, Brazi)
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Alessandro Garcia
Lancaster University, UK
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Holger Giese
University of Paderborn, Germany
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Ho-fung Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
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Carlos Lucena
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Alexander Romanovsky
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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