A kind of software fault diagnosing framework based on Multi-Agent

One of the most expensive and time-consuming activities of the software is locating the fault. Therefore, the software fault diagnosis technology and the Spectrum-based Fault Localization (SFL) is very significant to software quality assurance. Recently, the fault diagnosis technology based on the artificial intelligence theory attracts more and more attention. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have autonomy, intelligence and social ability, which is well-suited for diagnosing software systems, and which can easily be integrated with existing software testing schemes of software intensive equipment. In this paper, a kind of 4-layer Framework based on MAS for fault diagnosis is innovative presented. The proposed Framework is applied to real software diagnosis to validate its effectiveness.