A rule-based multi-agent system for testing distributed applications

The emphasis of recent works is focused on the use of rules based systems that describe the system behavior by simple rules which increase the flexibility and easiness of programming. In the context of the distributed test where a set of parallel testers exchange 110 messages to perform the test, some potential problems of coordination can arise amongst remote testers. These problems are usually known as controllability and Observability issues. We present in this paper our approach based on the use of a rule based multi-agent system to overcome such problems.