The Internet has revolutionized everyday life and IoT, with its system of interconnected vehicles, home appliances, buildings, medicinal equipment, health monitors or any other electronic equipment having embedded electronics, microchips and other components has played a key role in making our lives easier and simpler. While we enjoy the comfort of connected devices and an advanced and easy lifestyle, it is pertinent to note that an IoT solution before it is rolled out needs to undergo trough testing.
Why is it challenging to undertake IoT testing?
IoT testing is a challenging task and some of the reasons why it is challenging to undertake IoT testing include but are not limited to
- Volume of data generated is huge.
- The variety of data generated is also large.
- Number of components involved may be many and they may interact across multiple platforms and interfaces
Challenges In IOT testing
What are the common challenges in IOT testing? Grhombustech.com, a leading IoT testing services company, delivers some key insights and inputs in the article below.
1. Cloud Platforms
In real time, the data that is sent to the cloud may be structured or unstructured. Further, there are multiple cloud platforms supporting IoT services including but not limited to AWS, Azure etc. Effective testing across various platforms is absolutely vital to ensure that all components in the value chain perform optimally.
2. Network Reliability
IoT devices generate volumes of real time data and the data velocity and veracity are high. Thus, network status can have a pertinent impact on performance. It may be as simple as an inconsistent Internet connection to something a bit more complicated like hardware issues. Proper testing protocols must be put in place to ensure that different conditions are simulated and responses noted to ensure correct performance without any loss of data.
3. Diversity of Devices
An IoT system is a sum of various components and the entire performance will depend on the robustness of the connected systems. Even if a particular system or third-party dependency breaks down, then we have a challenge. Hence, analysing the ecosystem, detecting the vulnerability and increased running of automated tests will solve the problem.
4. Security Threats and Assessment
While devices and technology are growing day by day, the vulnerabilities and avenues for attack are also increasing. There are numerous possibilities of attack and hijack of IoT components and systems. Hence, proper definition is necessary right from the design and implementation phase to ensure a highly reliable and secure solution.
5. Variety of Protocols
There are many protocols for communication and some of them include
- Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT),
- Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) and
- Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Use of APIs will help solve the interaction challenges. However, the test setup must be able to accommodate all protocols, APIs, devices and networks to deliver valid and effective results. Further, the complexity of the software and system may hide any bugs present and hence, an all-round analysis is required to ensure successful IoT testing and successful implementation.
Why Grhombustech?
Grhombustech is a leader in offering IOT testing services. As a leading software development company in UK, we bring rigour and expertise to our every activity. We are also a leading custom app development, EdTech and Salesforce CRM implementation company in the UK and bring critical thinking, innovative solutions and a process approach to any project.
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