• Ms. J CECILIA VIKASHINI
• Ms. M. RAJALAKSHMI

Software agents and multi-agent systems are a promising technology for today's complex, distributed systems. Methodologies and techniques that address testing and reliability of these systems are increasingly demanded, in particular to support systematic verification/validation and automated test generation and execution. To address the first problem, we proposed a goal-oriented testing methodology, aiming at defining a systematic and comprehensive testing process for engineering software agents. Concerning the second problem, the peculiar properties of software agents make testing them troublesome. We developed a number of techniques to generate test cases, automatically or semi-automatically. Our experiments have shown that each technique has different strength. For instance, while the random technique is effective in revealing crashes or exceptions, the ontology-based one is strong in detecting communication faults.

Software agent testing, goal-oriented testing methodology, multiagent systems,Agent-oriented software engineering.

"Software testing in small industries", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.313-321, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901B40.pdf

"Software testing in small industries", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp313-321, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901B40.pdf