Integrating and automating testing in multi-agent system development

这项研究将提供一种机制，使多智能体系统的测试更容易、更彻底。多智能体技术非常强大，可以节省企业开发复杂系统的大量时间和精力。自动化测试将确保使用该技术构建的系统更加健壮，并且还将大大节省测试所需的时间。由于其复杂性，多智能体系统是出了名的难以测试。然而，在这个项目中使用的方法将能够智能地生成潜在困难的测试用例，也可以生成基于指定功能的测试用例。

This research will provide mechanisms that facilitate easier and more thorough testing of multi-agent systems. Multi-agent technology is extremely powerful and can save businesses substantial time and effort in developing complex systems. Automated testing will ensure that systems built using this technology are more robust, and will also enable substantial savings in time required for testing. Multi agent systems are notoriously difficult to test, due to their complexity. However the approaches used in this project will enable intelligent generation of test cases that are potentially difficult, and also generation of test cases that are based on specified functionality.