Internet of Things: Current Challenges in the Quality Assurance and Testing Methods

TL;DR

This paper reviews current challenges in IoT quality assurance, highlighting issues like security and interoperability, and presents survey-based insights into testing methodologies specific to IoT solutions.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of IoT quality assurance challenges and discusses specific testing areas not thoroughly covered in existing literature.

Findings

Identified key challenges in IoT quality assurance

Survey results reveal gaps in current testing practices

Highlights need for specialized IoT testing methodologies

Abstract

Contemporary development of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology brings a number of challenges in the Quality Assurance area. Current issues related to security, user's privacy, the reliability of the service, interoperability, and integration are discussed. All these create a demand for specific Quality Assurance methodology for the IoT solutions. In the paper, we present the state of the art of this domain and we discuss particular areas of system testing discipline, which is not covered by related work sufficiently so far. This analysis is supported by results of a recent survey we performed among ten IoT solutions providers, covering various areas of IoT applications.