Towards an Acceptance Testing Approach for Internet of Things Systems

Internet of Things (IoT) applications and systems pervade our life increasingly and assuring their quality is of paramount importance. Unfortunately, few proposals for testing these complex—and often safety-critical—systems are present in the literature and testers are left alone to build their test cases. This paper is a first step towards acceptance testing of an IoT system that relies on a smartphone as principal way of interaction between the user and a complex system composed by local sensors/actuators and a remote cloud-based system. A simplified mobile health (m-health) IoT system for diabetic patients is used as an example to explain the proposed approach.