Automated Software Testing System Using Multi-Agent System Characteristics Approach

This research revealed that automated software testing using combination of the three methods with multi agent system approach is successfully done. Software testing has a role in maintaining the quality of resulted software. Software testing is commonly done by doing the test of the usage of software with certain test case. There are a lot of testing method that can be used. The testing with more than one method is needed to maintain the software quality from some aspect that being focus on testing from each method. As the objective of this research, the automated software testing system modelled in the multi agent system approach. The developed multi agent system here consist of 1 Interface Agent, and 3 Tester Agents. Interface Agent is an agent which has a role to distribute the testing task that will be done. While, Tester Agent is an agent which role to do the testing execution using three different methods, they are Data Driven Testing, White-box Testing and Black-box Testing. From the testing done, it is known that the automated software testing system can be done by developed multi agent based system appropriately. The combination of the three methods can be executed independently with a good result. The software testing performed by the system developed in this research provide more complete results than testing conducted by human testers. This research can give a positive contribution to fasten the testing step in software development.