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Automated unit testing intelligent agents in PDT

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The Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) is an agent development tool that supports the Prometheus design methodology and includes features like automated code generation. We enhance this tool by adding a feature that allows the automated unit testing of agents that are built from within PDT.

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Bakar NSelamat A(2018)Agent systems verificationApplied Intelligence10.1007/s10489-017-1112-z48:5(1251-1274)Online publication date: 1-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10489-017-1112-z
El Houda Dehimi NShepperd MHall TMyrtveit I(2014)Towards a novel testing approach for holonic agentsProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/2601248.2613079(1-4)Online publication date: 13-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2601248.2613079
Khamis MNagi K(2013)Designing multi-agent unit tests using systematic test design patterns-(extended version)Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence10.1016/j.engappai.2013.04.00926:9(2128-2142)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.engappai.2013.04.009
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Automated unit testing intelligent agents in PDT
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Intelligent agents

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Bakar NSelamat A(2018)Agent systems verificationApplied Intelligence10.1007/s10489-017-1112-z48:5(1251-1274)Online publication date: 1-May-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10489-017-1112-z
El Houda Dehimi NShepperd MHall TMyrtveit I(2014)Towards a novel testing approach for holonic agentsProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering10.1145/2601248.2613079(1-4)Online publication date: 13-May-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2601248.2613079
Khamis MNagi K(2013)Designing multi-agent unit tests using systematic test design patterns-(extended version)Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence10.1016/j.engappai.2013.04.00926:9(2128-2142)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.engappai.2013.04.009
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