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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2019.23.10.1216

A Developer Support Tool for Efficient Testing of IoT Applications  

Lee, Euihyeok (Department of Computer Engineering, Graduate School, KOREATECH)
Kim, Dongwoo (Department of Computer Engineering, Graduate School, KOREATECH)
Kang, Seungwoo (School of Computer Science and Engineering, KOREATECH)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering / v.23, no.10, 2019 , pp. 1216-1227 More about this Journal
Abstract
We propose TITAN (Tool for IoT ApplicatioN testing), a developer support tool that enables efficient testing of IoT applications. TITAN is designed to allow IoT application developers to run their applications under the development environment without being restricted by physical environments and users' behaviors required to test application logic being developed. Using TITAN, IoT application developers can save the time and effort needed to repeatedly perform the testing of application logic while they develop their applications. In this paper, we present the system architecture of TITAN and its current prototype implementation. We evaluate the usefulness and usability of TITAN through a small user study with two example IoT applications. The study participants show their positive perception about the usefulness of TITAN. We further discuss the limitations of the current study and future research directions.
Keywords
IoT; developer tool; testing; IoT application;
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