Using anti-ant-like agents to generate test threads from the UML diagrams

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3502, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-80

  Li, Huaizhong ^a   Lam, C Peng ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE AGENTS; TESTING;

ANTI-ANT-LIKE AGENTS; SOFTWARE TESTING; THIN-THREADS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML); AUTOMATED APPROACH; LABOR INTENSIVE; SCENARIO-BASED; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UML DIAGRAMS; USAGE SCENARIOS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 24944471287     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11430230_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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