Agent-based test management for software system test

In the scope of industrial automation systems, a relatively high quality of the software system test has to be achieved by the test management in order to guarantee the required reliability of the system. A major challenge of the test manager is the limited number of available test resources. The test manager cannot execute a complete test with all test cases in each test cycle. He has to decide with much manual work, which test cases are executed. In this paper, the Adaptive Test Management System (ATMS) based on software agents is presented to relieve the test manager from this manual work. The goal of the ATMS is to increase the test efficiency and reduce the test costs.