Automating Failure Detection in Cognitive Agent Programs

Vincent Koeman, Koen Hindriks, Catholijn Jonker

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Abstract

Debugging is notoriously dicult and extremely time consuming but also essential for ensuring the reliability and quality of a software system. In order to reduce debugging effort and enable automated failure detection, we propose an
automated testing framework for detecting failures in cognitive agent programs. Our approach is based on the assumption that modules within such programs are a natural unit for testing. We identify a minimal set of temporal operators that enable the specication of test conditions and show that
the test language is suciently expressive for detecting all failures in an existing failure taxonomy. We also introduce an approach for specifying test templates that supports a programmer in writing tests. Furthermore, empirical analysis
of agent programs allows us to evaluate whether our approach using test templates detects all failures.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems
EditorsJ. Thangarajah, K. Tuyls, C. Jonker, S. Marsella
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1237-1246
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-4239-1
Publication statusPublished - 2016
EventAAMAS 2016 : 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 9 May 201613 May 2016
Conference number: 15
https://sis.smu.edu.sg/aamas2016

Conference

ConferenceAAMAS 2016
Abbreviated titleAAMAS
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period9/05/1613/05/16
Internet address

Keywords

  • multi-agent systems
  • testing
  • verification

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