An Agent-based Approach for the Maintenance of Database Applications

Agent Systems in Software Engineering

“…Moreover, this restriction is made clearer by the fact that the software engineering process is not covered in its complete form. Almost all attempts target software testing with the exception of (Gardikiotis et al, 2007a) where software maintenance is also treated in depth. The above work is also the only one where the existing platform has proven its extensibility by including generic software engineering agents.…”

“…Finally, in all cases besides (Kung, 2004) no particular approach has been bundled to validate the strength of the model's functionality while the issues of test planning optimization and agent society evolution need further exploration. Proceeding with multi-agent systems approaches (Qi et al, 2006;Zhu, 2004;Gardikiotis et al, 2007a) they do not share many things in common. In all three approaches, agents can be designed for different tasks, deal with different representation formats and deployed on different platforms.…”

“…In (Qi et al, 2006) the objective is to show an implementation of (Kung, 2004) by adjusting a data-flow testing method to properly handle web applications. The approaches of (Zhu, 2004;Gardikiotis et al, 2007a) suggest enriched architectures since they have an evolutionary and adaptive nature where existing techniques can be adapted to new application environments while new techniques can be also plugged in. Furthermore, ontological aspects are taken into consideration.…”

“…In (Gardikiotis et al, 2007a), an approach for the software engineering of distributed database applications (DA) is presented. The approach is founded on the employment of software agents and adopts the architecture of an intelligent, flexible and extensible agent system that complies with the nature of multi-tier DAs.…”

“…The presented architecture can easily be extended to support other software engineering tasks. In fact, the presented system is derived from an extended version of previous work described in (Gardikiotis et al, 2007a), which focused solely on software maintenance.…”