Desafíos de las pruebas de aplicaciones IoT en ciudades inteligentes

Alejandro Miguel  Güemes Esperón; Martha Dunia Delgado Dapena; Francisco  Maciá Pérez; Jose Vicente Berna Martinez; Iren Lorenzo Fonseca

Authors

Alejandro Miguel Güemes Esperón Technological University of Havana "José Antonio Echeverría" https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9704-9449
Martha Dunia Delgado Dapena Technological University of Havana "José Antonio Echeverría"
Francisco Maciá Pérez University of Alicante
Jose Vicente Berna Martinez University of Alicante
Iren Lorenzo Fonseca University of Alicante

Keywords:

software testing, IoT, smart cities

Abstract

Information and communication technologies are key elements in the development of smart cities. They make it possible to provide intelligence to all areas and generate sustainable services and solutions that provide a better quality of life for citizens. Nowadays, new concepts and socio-technological paradigms such as the Internet of Things (IoT) are being introduced. This article addresses the testing of IoT applications in intelligent environments, a topic of growing interest among researchers and members of the software industry, in the search for a testing strategy to ensure that the solutions obtained have the desired quality. Several published works were analyzed, with the objective of identifying the fundamental characteristics of this type of applications and the most appropriate types of tests. A testing strategy for IoT applications and the characterization of a set of tools that contribute to their automation were obtained.

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