Testing in Prometheus Methodology - Plan Oriented Approach
Narendran Sivakumar, K. Vivekanandan, M. Kanimozhi · 2013
Abstract — Agent Orientation is emerging as a dominant research area and also prevails as a new paradigm for constructing complex distributed system. Agents provide designers/developers with a way of structuring applications around autonomous, communicative elements. Thus, Agent Oriented Software Engineering (AOSE) is concerned with the use of agents in the development of complex distributed systems, especially in open and dynamic environments. Several AOSE methodologies were developed for specifying and designing agent system. Prometheus is a practical AOSE methodology that aims to provide everything that is needed to specify and design agent systems. Existing AOSE methodologies including Prometheus doesn’t provide enough support for testing and that becomes one of the most fundamental obstacles to large-scale take-up of agent technology in industrial practice. This paper aims at evaluating the lifecycle coverage of Prometheus and also explores the scope for testing the system that has been analyzed and designed using Prometheus.