Using Automatic Failure Detection for Cognitive Agents in Eclipse: (Demonstration)
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Abstract
The main goal of our demonstration, is to show how an automated testing framework for cognitive agents facilitates the detection of failures and aids in the localization of faults. We have proposed an automated testing framework for cognitive agents and an associated test approach based on test templates for frequently occurring failure types. By using a concrete implementation of the testing framework for the GOAL agent programming language, an integration with the existing source-level debugger was created within the Eclipse environment, thus fully implementing the design within a state-of-the-art setting. This implementation and its source are publicly available, and used in our demonstration in order to illustrate concrete examples of its use, and provide insight into practical implementation details that may be valuable for the adaptation into other agent programming languages.
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ISBN:9781450342391
- General Chairs:
- Catholijn M. Jonker,
- Stacy Marsella,
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- John Thangarajah,
- Karl Tuyls
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