Regression Testing Techniques for Agent Oriented Software

Author

Srivastava, Praveen Ranjan ; Karthik Anand, V. ; Subba Reddy, V. ; Raghurama, G.

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst. Group, BITS Pilani, Pilani, India

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

225

Abstract

- In recent years, agent-based systems have received considerable attention in both academics and industry. The agent-oriented paradigm can be considered as a natural extension of the object-oriented (OO) paradigm. In this paper, a procedure using message flow graph (MFG) for regression testing of agent oriented software systems is proposed. This method however can be used when the interaction pattern of an agent changes. Furthermore a procedure for selection of modification-traversing regression test cases using execution trace is proposed. For illustration purpose, a multi agent air ticket booking system is implemented using JADE 3.5 and tested using our proposed methods.

Keywords

flow graphs; multi-agent systems; object-oriented methods; program testing; regression analysis; agent oriented software systems testing; agent-based systems; interaction pattern; message flow graph; multiagent air ticket booking system; object-oriented paradigm; regression testing techniques; Collaboration; Computer science; Flow graphs; Industrial electronics; Information systems; Information technology; Instruments; Software systems; Software testing; System testing; Agents; JADE; MFG; Regression testing; Software Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology, 2008. ICIT '08. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bhubaneswar

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3745-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2008.30

Filename

4731330