What is Robot Army Testing?

Question

What is Robot Army Testing? Where is it used? How can I learn it?

Answer 1

I'm not sure that it exists. There's Rational Robot, an automated testing record-and-playback tool, but you have to buy it. I've yet to hear of Robot Army testing, however, although I agree with Nick - it sounds AWESOME :)

The only mention I can find of it ANYWHERE is on:

http://www.mail-archive.com/wtr-general@rubyforge.org/msg07756.html

So maybe it's also known as MBT (Model Based Testing)?

If so, take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_testing for information on that and some handy links to tutorials etc.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

If by "Robot Army Testing" you mean assembling a suite of automated tests on a grand scale (sort of xUnit on steroids) then this presentation provides a helpful introduction. It is also known as Model-Based Testing.

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As uberRouse notes, the use of randomly generated values in testing is interesting. I first came across this in 2005. It was a tool called Agitator from Agitar Software which took manually written unit tests and expanded on the coverage by plugging in random values and edge cases.

Answer 3

This term is not on WikiPedia. Everything, that is at least a little popular technology appears there quickly. Are you sure you don't misspell it?

Answer 4

Robot Framework maybe? We use it and it's great!

Answer 5

Here's a link to my blog page about a set of interviews on "Ethical and Legal Aspects of Unmanned Systems." The last interview from "A Developer's Perspective" generally describes (overview) a grand process for testing and "acceptable deployment" of intelligent autonomous military robotic systems. Note that you can either order the printed publication or download a pdf immediately.

http://highlevellogic.blogspot.com/2011/01/ethical-and-legal-aspects-of-unmanned.html

Answer 6

BTW, it sounds like web-site DDOS testing ;)