Software testing is a very expensive and time consuming process. It can account for up to 50% of the total cost of the software development. Distributed systems make software testing a daunting task. The research described in this paper investigates a novel multi-agent framework for testing 3-tier distributed systems. This paper describes the framework architecture as well as the communication mechanism among agents in the architecture. Web-based application is examined as a case study to validate the proposed framework. The framework is considered as a step forward to automate testing for distributed systems in order to enhance their reliability within an acceptable range of cost and time.
@article{arxiv.1512.00313,
title = {A Multi-Agent Framework for Testing Distributed Systems},
author = {Hany F. El Yamany and Miriam Capretz and Luiz Fernando Capretz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.00313},
year = {2015}
}