Um mapeamento sistemático de testes para aplicações IoT

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) is spreading rapidly due to easy access to the internet and the major challenges being raised by the research community. IoT applications have many peculiarities in their construction, they are smart objects that connect through different channels with humans or with themselves, they have different architectures, different interfaces, different functions, they are inserted in different contexts, they can make their own decisions autonomously and provide different services. Because the IoT systems have several peculiarities, testing these applications becomes complex, specific approaches and methodologies are necessary to perform the tests. Therefore, this work proposes to characterize the state of the art of the tests in IoT applications through a systematic mapping. This mapping aims to find the approaches

used in the IoT application tests and the main challenges encountered in these tests. Twenty- five papers that address the research questions defined in this paper were selected. Among these

papers, we found for aiding testing that had more focus on model-based testing, construction of platforms and tools for the aid of the tests. Among the main challenges for the IoT applications testing, the security and the interoperability are the most discussed in the literature. Through this mapping, we have also observed efforts in the last few years to propose approaches for testing IoT applications, but there is still no consensus in the community about the best processes, methodologies and tools to be adopted.