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SUNIT: A Unit Testing Framework for Test Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems

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Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VII (AOSE 2006)

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Complex and distributed nature of multi-agent systems (MASs) makes it almost impossible to identify of all requirements at the beginning of the development. Hence, development of such systems needs an iterative and incremental process to handle complexity and the continuously changing na-ture of the requirements. In this paper, a test driven multi-agent system devel-opment approach that naturally supports iterative and incremental MAS con-struction is proposed. Also a testing framework called as SUnit which supports the proposed approach by extending JUnit framework is introduced. This framework allows writing automated tests for agent behaviors and interactions between agents. The framework also includes the necessary mock agents to model the organizational aspects of the MAS.

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  1. Ege University, Department of Computer Engineering, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey

    Ali Murat Tiryaki, Sibel Öztuna, Oguz Dikenelli & Riza Cenk Erdur

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Tiryaki, A.M., Öztuna, S., Dikenelli, O., Erdur, R.C. (2007). SUNIT: A Unit Testing Framework for Test Driven Development of Multi-Agent Systems. In: Padgham, L., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Agent-Oriented Software Engineering VII. AOSE 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70945-9_10

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