Test-driven development of web and enterprise agents

Test-driven development asserts that the test code is equally important as the production code. In this paper we propose a new unit testing framework in which the unit of work is an agent. The framework has emerged as a necessity during the development of our enterprise-scale multiagent middleware, and has therefore been designed as a practical solution. It includes a message-based and an interceptor-based architecture, and supports simultaneous testing of both client-side and server-side agents.

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