Testing in Agent Based Systems

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Testing in Agent Based SystemsAHS

M. JUNA

TAHIR M

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Outine

!"at is Agent#

Testing in Muti Agent System

Testing F$ame%&$'

Testing Te("ni)ues *&$ Agent BaseSystem

+&n(usi&n


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!"at is Agent#

“One that acts or has the power or authority to act or represent ano

S&*t%a$e Agent,A software agent is a computer program that works

toward goals in a dynamic context on behalf of

another entity (human or computational), perhaps fora long period of time, with discontinuous direct

supervision or control, and exhibits a significant

flexibility and even creativity degree in how it tries to

transform goals into action tasks


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he following are the types of Agents!

Inteigent Agents

+&a-&$atie Agent

Inte$*a(e Agent

M&-ie Agent

In*&$mati&n/Inte$net Agent

Rea(tie S&*t%a$e Agent

Hete$&gene&us Agent System

Ty0es O* Agents


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Intelligent Agent

"ensor Agent Action

#nput Output

Eni$&nment


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#ntelligent agents continuously perform three functions!

• o !ynamic con!itions in theen"ironment #erce$tion

• to a%ect con!itions in theen"ironment

Action• to inter$ret $erce$tions& sol"e

$ro'lems& !raw inerences& an!!etermine actions(

)easoning


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+"a$a(te$isti(s &* Inteigent Agent

Autonomy Goal OrientedCommunicative

Learning

Pro Activeeactivity

!ocial Ability "obilit

IntelligentAgent


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Muti Agent System

$ore than one agent is composed together and

interaction is exhibited among themselves to achieve

the targeted goal is termed as a $ulti%Agent "ystem

($A")&


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E1am0es

Aut&n&m&us Ai$0anes

'urrently large airplanes have most of the

technologies for autonomous flight like

control of individual airplanes

coordination of activities with other

airplanes relies on central authorities &


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E1am0eInte$net Agents

tons of chat bots

sales and marketing agents

customer service

"earching the #nternet for the answer to a specific uery can be a

long and tedious process& "o, why not allow a computer program

an agent do searches for us* he agent would typically be given a uery that would reuire

synthesi+ing pieces of information from various different #nternet

information sources&

ailure would occur when a particular resource was unavailable&


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Testing In Muti Agent Systems

est -evels .nit testing

Agent testing

#ntegration or /roup testing

"ystem or "ociety esting Acceptance testing


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!"y testing MAS is +"aenging#

Dist$i-uted/asyn("$&n&us Aut&n&m&us Message 0assing

Eni$&nment Fa(t&$ Ba('2-&1 MAS


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!"y t"e$e is a need &* s0e(iai3ed

Testing#

"urvey states that the agent based software are currently been tested

by using Ob0ect%Oriented (OO) testing techniues, upon mapping of

Agent%Oriented (AO) abstractions into OO constructs& 1owever agent

properties such as Autonomy, 2roactivity, and 3eactivity etc&, cannot

be mapped into OO constructs&


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Aut&mated +&ntinu&us Testing

Te("ni)ue *&$ MAS system

4hat is Automated 'ontinuous esting* 4hy Automated 'ontinuous esting*

'omponents of Automated 'ontinuous esting echniue!

Autonomous ester Agent

$onitoring Agent

Automated est 'ase generation echniue for Autonomous

est Agent!

5) 3andom esting 6)7volutionary $utation esting


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e+AT F$ame%&$'

e'A is agent testing framework that implements automatedcontinuous testing of $A"& he framework facilitates test

suites derivation from goals analysis following the goal%

oriented testing methodology, semi%automatically generating

test suites skeletons from goal analysis diagrams


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+&m0&nents &* e+AT F$ame%&$'

est "uite 7ditor

#t allows human testers to derive test suites from goal analysis

diagrams

Autonomous ester Agent

#t is capable to automatically generate new test cases and toexecute them on a $A"

$onitoring Agents

#t monitor communication among agents&


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e+AT F$ame%&$' *&$ Aut&mated

+&ntinu&us Testing


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Testing Te("ni)ues In Agent Based

Systems


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R&e O$iented A00$&a("

A role can be defined as a entity that exposes

to the agent that plays it a set of actions

3ole is an important attribute of an agent &

4ell defined interface


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R&e O$iented M&de


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R&e O$iented Testing

8 An 9 8 /i ( 8 30 ( 8 3ek ) ) where i 9 0 9 k 9 x 9 5

"72 5! "elect the Agent to be tested&

"72 6! #dentify /oals (/i), 3oles (30) and their corresponding

3esponsibilities (3ek)

"72 :! ;esign 3ole $odel ;iagram (Ax (/i 30 3ek)

"72

"72 =! ;efine the interacting agents and situations&

"72 >! #dentify environmental factors pre%conditioning input trigger 3ek

"72 ?! #dentify fulfillment criteria that satisfies 3esponsibility

"72 @! 3un test cases


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R&e O$iented Unit Testing

his techniue focuses primarily on the smallest building blocks&

#ndividual goals

A role can be represented as

/oal

3esponsibilities 2rotocol

2ermissions


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ROUT E1am0e


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R&ut E1am0e


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R&e S("ema

)ole schema $ro"i!es a well/!e0ne! interace(


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Adantage 4 Disadantage

3ole based approach helps the multi agent system

developers in testing the individual unit of the agent based

system&

esting whether the agent performs its role properly is achallenging task&


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Unit Testing In MAS

Unit testing is a s&*t%a$e development process in

which the smallest testable parts of an application,

called units, are individually and independently

scrutini+ed for proper operation& Unit testing is often

automated but it can also be done manually&


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Unit testing using M&(' Agents

#n $A" $ock Agent is a regular agent tha

communicates with 0ust one agent! the Agen

.nder est (A.)&

he $ock Agents plan is euivalent to a tes

script&


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Agent unit test approach is composed of five participants

est suit est 'aseAgent

under test$ockAgent

Agent

$onitor


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Unit Testing Using M&(' Agents 5$&s 4

+&ns

#n $A"s .nit esting aims to remove faults along the application development& .nit testing is independent of any development life cycle used&

.nit testing in $A" verifies whether each agent in isolation respects its

specifications under normal and abnormal conditions&

#t is a role based approach, we can find out the individual behavior of agents&

his approach doesnt create complete test cases, it needs to be combined with

other strategies to make a thorough set of test cases&

his approach only tests individual agent, group testing of agents or system of

agents as a whole is not considered&


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+&n(usi&n

$ost of the existing research work on testing software agen

and $A" focuses mainly on agent and integration leve

Basic issues of testing software agents like message passing

distributedCasynchronous have been consideredD testin

frameworks have been proposed to facilitate testing process


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Re*e$en(es & Bergenti, $& /lei+es, and & Eambonelli, “$ethodologies and "oftware 7ngineering for Agent

"ystems”, he Agent%Oriented "oftware 7ngineering 1andbook, "pringer, Fol& 55, 6GG


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PAgent Oriented "oftware esting L 3ole Oriented approach (IJACSA) International

Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 3, No.12, 212 !"

N.Siva#umar and $.Vive#anandan "ivakumar, &, and K& Fivekanandan& Q7xploring the eed for "peciali+ed esting

echniue for an Agent%Based "oftware&Q %&'*+S 6GG6&? (6GG6)&

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