Software Test Automation for Multi-Platform Client/Server Applications

Abstract

To assist a solution to the problem of the test environment spanning multiple platforms, this paper applies mobile agents to automated test execution. A test driver can be launched by a mobile agent to remote client sites to run the tests. During the testing, the mobile agent will use the Network Class Server to dynamically load the classes relevant to this test. The test result on each client site will be sent back by the mobile agent. The mobile agent roams across different platforms and finally it arrives at the application server site to bring back the trace file for inspecting the interaction behaviour among clients. This work can really let the tests run on multiple client sites across different platforms.