IoT Testing-as-a-Service: A New Dimension of Automation

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) systems has become a global trend enhancing the capabilities smart computing era involving a variety of distributed end-devices and multi- scalable applications. The collaborative nature of IoT systems connected through the Internet increases the heterogeneity of coming data streams that need to be processed for correct decision making in a real-time environment. The processing of huge data streams for remotely distributed IoT systems create loops for data breaches and open new challenges for security and scalability of system testing. Thus, the testing of IoT systems is becoming the necessity, requires automated testing framework due to the amount of IoT devices and processing of data events is prone to error by traditional software testing. An automated IoT testing service based framework is purposed in this paper, to test the distributed IoT systems by reducing cost and scalability issues of software testing. The infrastructure of IoT systems demands a large number of platforms be developed which requires systematic testing approach. Therefore, the purposed automated IoT testing as a service model performs distributed interoperability testing, oneM2M based conformance testing, security testing of distributed systems and validating semantics/syntactic testing of IoT devices in a systematic approach. Lastly, to provide more strength to the work we discussed and analyze existing IoT testing models to evaluate our proposed model.