Automated unit testing for agent systems

ENASE 2007 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 10-18

  Zhang, Zhiyong ^a   Thangarajah, John ^a   Padgham, Lin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Multi agent systems; Unit testing

Indexed keywords

AGENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; AUTOMATED UNIT TESTING; DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGY; MODEL BASED APPROACH; TESTING FRAMEWORK; TESTING MECHANISM; UNIT TESTING;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84880295983     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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