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Mutation operators for JADE mobile agent systems

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Ahmad A. Saifan,

Heider A. WahshehAuthors Info & Claims

ICICS '12: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2222444.2222460

Published: 03 April 2012 Publication History

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Mobile Agent System (MAS) is a distributed software system responsible for supporting and managing mobile agents. It is suitable to develop many applications for mobile computing. Testing and debugging MASs is hard to do, due the complex execution of MAS. In this paper we are interested in using mutation analysis to evaluate, compare and improve quality for MASs. There are many mutation operators in the literature. However, they are insufficient for MASs. This paper we extract 26 mutation operators for JADE MASs. Those mutation operators are categorized into four levels based on the specific fault features of JADE Mobile Agent System.

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Mutation operators for JADE mobile agent systems
1. Software and its engineering
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