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Already during development and definitely after finishing your agent, it is essential to do some testing! You and your group members can test your agent. But generally speaking, developers are not the best testers of their own software. Therefore, it will also be important to involve other users outside your team (e.g., your friends, family, another team doing this project) and ask them to interact with your agent (and, of course, you should return the favor and check out another team’s agent too!). You can read more about this in the System testing Agent Testing and User studyStudy section.
Before you get started, make sure to check out the main Project Deliverables. Apart from a working agent (a MARBEL and Dialogflow agent) that you evaluated, your project work should also result in an end report a Final Report in which you describe its main features and its performance based on the testing you did, amongst other things. More information on the report requirements can be found in the 2023: End Report Section. For now, let’s You should also maintain a log book of the main project activities that you worked on, and make the data available that you used to evaluate your agent. You can also already look ahead at how your work will be evaluated by checking out the Assessment Rubric.
Okay, now you should be ready to Get Started.