Promising a convenient life by enabling machine-to-machine and machine-to-human communication, IoT (Internet of things) technologies are fast gaining ground. In the not-too-distant future, we might see refrigerators automatically ordering items that need replenishing and cars steering us around on their own. This means designers, developers and QA engineers will have more opportunities than ever before to significantly impact the lives of millions.
There will never be enough QA engineers for testing IoT offerings, because there will be numerous layers and devices to test for functionality, interoperability, security, and more. Although a certain high level of manual testing will be required for , having more to test means that they will need to prioritize and automate whatever you can. This would increase the demand for better automation testing, leading to a rise in the number of sophisticated testing models in the connected world.
APIs connecting our connected world should be automated as much as possible because without a fully functioning API, there will simply not be connected to the Internet anymore. Creating API tests manually, based on a written description, can be time-consuming and inaccurate.
An API, typically based on JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), is often layered on top of the transport protocol. This transport layer helps interact with the device. Automation Engineers can use these protocols and APIs to automate IoT devices. The Automation framework must be able to support these protocols and APIs in order to be effective.
An IoT gateway helps connect smart IoT endpoints with sensors over cloud. With the help of the rest APIs of the IoT endpoints we have developed a test environment where all APIs are integrated with our automation framework.
In this talk, we will demonstrate how to integrate established connection between IoT endpoints and cloud server with automation environment to help teams to bring APIs into automation of IoT devices which helps in detecting reliability, functionality of IoT endpoints.