Extension of Object-Oriented Software Testing Techniques to Agent Oriented Software Testing.

Extension of Object-Oriented Software Testing Techniques to Agent Oriented Software Testing

In recent years, agent-based systems have received considerable attention in both academics and industry. The agent-oriented paradigm can be considered a natural extension to the object-oriented (OO) paradigm. Agents differ from objects in many issues which require special modeling elements but have some similarities. Although there is a well-defined OO testing technique, agent-oriented develop...

Agent Oriented Software Testing – Role Oriented approach

Several Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) methodologies were proposed to build open, heterogeneous and complex internet based systems. AOSE methodologies offer different conceptual frameworks, notations and techniques, thereby provide a platform to make the system abstract, generalize, dynamic and autonomous. Lifecycle coverage is one of the important criteria for evaluating an AOSE me...

The problematics of testing object-oriented software

Within object-oriented methods, testing has received less attention than analysis, design, and coding. However, object-orientedness does not make testing obsolete and can even introduce new problems into the production of correct programs and their testing. Most work in testing has been done with "procedure-oriented" software in mind. Traditional methods, despite their efficiency, cannot be app...

Automatic Testing of Object-Oriented Software

Effective testing involves preparing test oracles and test cases, two activities which are too tedious to be effectively performed by humans, yet for the most part remain manual. The AutoTest unit testing framework automates both, by using Eiffel contracts — already present in the software — as test oracles, and generating objects and routine arguments to exercise all given classes; manual test...

Developing an Object-Oriented Software Testing Environment