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Test Driven Life Cycle Management for Internet of Things based Services: a Semantic Approach

Authors:
Eike Steffen Reetz
Daniel Kümper
Anders Lehmann
Ralf Tönjes

Keywords: model based testing; Internet of Things; life cycle management; semantic test description

Abstract:
Concepts for Internet of Things (IoT) are currently limited to particular domains and are tailored to meet only limited requirements of their narrow applications. To overcome current silo architectures, we propose a business oriented service composition of IoT enabled services with (semi-) automated model based testing capabilities. Explicit description of services as well as the target environment allows for automated design and execution of tests, hence enabling fast and robust IoT based service provision. This work proposes a semantic description of the test design and execution process to enable reasoning of test behaviour and suitability in the different phases of a service life cycle. The proposed work describes a test model and an appropriate test architecture. A first testbed implementation demonstrates their applicability. The proposed approach enriches current views of IoT architectures with knowledge from the field of service oriented architectures and makes them usable in distributed environments with partial unreliable resources by introducing a formalised integration of automated testing into the life cycle management.

Pages: 21 to 27

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4316

ISBN: 978-1-61208-233-2

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012