Beast methodology: An agile testing methodology for multi-agent systems based on behaviour driven development

Carrera, Álvaro; Iglesias, Carlos Á.; Garijo, Mercedes Ruiz

doi:10.1007/s10796-013-9438-5

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“…However, the study does not clearly state the transformation strategy and no cost-effective solution by focusing on test case reduction. In addition to above studies, the following study [30] proposed a methodology for test case generation using an open source framework Behavioural Agent Simple Testing (BEAST). It uses Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) techniques and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) for generation of test cases process.…”

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Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Mustafa¹,

Kadir²,

Ibrahim³

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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The overall aim of software testing is to deliver the error-free and high-quality software products to the end users. The testing process ensures that a software is aligned with the user specification and requirements. In software testing process, there are many challenging tasks however test case generation process is considered as the most challenging one. The quality of the generated test cases has a significant impact on efficiency and effectiveness of the testing process. In order to improve the quality of a developed software, the test cases should be able to achieve maximum adequacy in the testing and requirements' coverage. This paper presents a comparative evaluation of the prominent requirement-based test case generation approaches. Five evaluation criteria namely, inputs for test case generation, transformation techniques, coverage criteria, time and tool's support are defined to systematically compare the approaches. The results of the evaluation are used to identify the gap in the current approaches and research opportunities in requirements-based test case's generation.

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“…The study [30] presented a method to generate abstract level test suites from requirement's models using modeldriven testing paradigm. Navigational Development Techniques are incorporated in functional system test cases.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Mustafa¹,

Kadir²,

Ibrahim³

2017

International Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology

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“…The paper "Beast methodology: An agile testing methodology for multi-agent systems based on behavior driven development" (Carrera et al 2014) focuses on multiagent systems methodologies. In more detail, the authors propose a methodology for testing multiagent systems based on several platforms.…”

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Advances in infrastructures and tools for multiagent systems

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“…They provide a method for decomposing a goal into subgoals and link them to US elements. (Carrera et al, 2014) use US as testing mechanism for agent-oriented software development. Only one US template is used and aligned to JBehave (http://jbehave.org).…”

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Towards an Agent-driven Software Architecture Aligned with User Stories

Wautelet¹,

Heng

Kolp

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence

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Agile principles have taken an increasing importance in the last decades. Software Architecture (SA) definition is perceived as a non-agile practice as it is executed in a top-down manner, reminding waterfall development, and sometimes imposes heavy documentation. This paper proposes to systematically build an agent-oriented SA from a set of User Stories (US), the core artifact to document requirements in agile methodologies. Previous research has allowed to define a unified US meta-model for the generation of templates relating WHO, WHAT and WHY elements. This meta-model's elements define a syntax issued from practitioners templates associated with semantics from Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering frameworks, more precisely i*. With a set of US following the templates of this previous model, the link between the US and SA concepts is systematically studied and a transformation process is proposed. The SA can decline agent behaviors aligned with requirements and organizational behaviors. Moreover, requirements (thus US) are subject to evolution through agile iterations; the SA can evolve with these changes in a semi-automatic manner. We thus argue that the Agent-SA produced with our transformation process contributes to the overall project agility. STRUCTURING USER STORY CONCEPTSThis section exposes the "building blocks" used within this research.

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Beast methodology: An agile testing methodology for multi-agent systems based on behaviour driven development

Cited by 27 publications

References 15 publications

Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Comparative Evaluation of the State-of-art Requirements-based Test Case Generation Approaches

Advances in infrastructures and tools for multiagent systems

Towards an Agent-driven Software Architecture Aligned with User Stories

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