A Brief Introduction to IoT Testing

What is the Internet of things(IoT)?

The IoT is the network that consists of vehicles, home appliances, microchips or any other connected electronic devices and in IoT interconnection facilities collection and exchanges huge amount of data.IOT connected devices and those devices communicate and transfer a huge amount of data and that data uploaded it to cloud.
IOT technology allows the end users to control devices over the internet network.

The most common component of the internet of things are:

1.Application
2.network 
3.data center
4.sensor

IOT examples:

1.Smart Watches: Smart wearable watches are easily synchronized with the mobile phones. using these it's capturing such as sleeping activity, daily physical activity and see the mobile notification and attending the call.
2.Health: Using these devices we monitoring patients health situation.

The technology used in IOT:

1.Radio Frequency Code(RFID)tags and Electronic Product Code(EPC)
2. Near Field Communication(NFC) is used to activate two-way interaction b/w electronic devices.
3. Bluetooth is used for short-range communication.
4.Z-wave
5.WIFI 

What is IoT testing?

It is also a type of testing in which we test IOT devices which we tested interconnected IOT devices and network.

Types of IOT testing:

1.Usability testing
2.compatibility testing
3.data integrity
4.security
5.Performance

1. Usability Testing: There are many devices of different measurements are used by the users.so perceptions vary from user to user.thats why usability testing is very important in IoT testing. Usability testing in terms of displaying data, processing data etc should be tested thoroughly.

2.Compatibility Testing: There are many devices are connected through IOT system that's why tester perform compatibility testing.

3.Data integrity Testing: In which we test the integrity of data in IOT testing as it involves a huge amount of data.

4.Security Testing: It is important to validate user via authentication.

5.Performance Testing: it is important because in this type of IoT devices every second's thousands user hot the API.

IOT Testing Tools:

1.shodan
download link:https://www.shodan.io/
2.Thingful
download link: https://www.thingful.net
3.Wireshark
4.Tcpdump

Challenges of IOT Testing:

1.software and hardware
2.User interface
3.network availability