Design of intelligent agents for collaborative testing of service-based systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 22-28

  Bai, Xiaoying ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Ma, Bo ^b   Gong, Yunzhan ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

collaborative testing; intelligent agent; service oriented architecture

Indexed keywords

ACTION MODELS; AGENT DESIGN; AGENT MODEL; COLLABORATIVE TESTING; DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE; DYNAMIC COLLABORATIONS; PERFORMANCE TESTING; RUNTIMES; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE-BASED SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ABILITIES; TEST CONFIGURATIONS; TEST RESULTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 79959486601     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982595.1982601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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