IoT Dev+Test 2016 - Concurrent Sessions

After joining Uber in early 2015, Apple Chow and Bian Jiang encountered an Uber-unique challenge while investigating UI testing tools for their mobile applications. Many of their sanity tests required the rider application and driver application to communicate and coordinate actions in order to complete the end-to-end testing scenario. Learn how Apple, Bian, and their team created Octopus, a platform agnostic tool for scenario testing. They will discuss how it coordinates the communication across different apps running on different devices. You can apply this approach for any tests that...

IoT technology is a driving force for what some are calling the 4th Industrial Revolution—or Industry 4.0—which predicts that manufacturing as we know it will morph into something almost completely new. To support this revolution, the demand for software will grow exponentially, possibly leading us to a new software crisis. Stefano Rizzo presents eight key predictions about software and supporting technologies that will make Industry 4.0 a reality and deliver the promises of IoT. Stefano describes a new generation of application development and test/QA platforms replacing the current crop...

For the past decade cellular machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and more recently IoT applications have been deployed across many industries: vehicle telematics, smart grid, medical, distribution, and many more. When considering cellular M2M for IoT applications, there is a perception of excessive monthly recurring costs, high chip set costs, connectivity issues, or the limited bandwidth of existing networks. Join Brian Huey as he covers the driving M2M cellular trends, including LTE releases, building management, residential, smart grid, new technologies, and the expected capital...

Better and more meaningful results always happen when your team has clarity of vision around WHY they're doing what they're doing. "The Future” is about getting technology out of the way of our everyday functions and actions while using it to enhance lives in every conceivable way. We must be thinking far beyond what’s next. The process is almost always about people, and most people need to ease into change. As designers of software, we need to be thinking about what is several futures down the road and breaking that vision into baby steps that won’t freak people out or be “too much too...

Launching enterprise IoT products to the marketplace is a complex maze of steps and hurdles that takes most IoT development teams eighteen-to-twenty-four months to reach. Why does it take so long? Developers have to merge the diverse disciplines of back-end IT requirements, RF design, mixed signal, big data, and much more into a complete IoT system. Eric King discusses the major steps of Internet of Things development and shows you how to make your systems simpler and less risky. Eric explores the often forgotten areas of testing and certification for IoT systems and the increasing...

With the vast number of platforms and device models, testing products on mobile can be a time-consuming and costly effort. Executing test automation on actual devices is one key to achieving scale and speed. How, when, and where do we build and execute these automation scripts on real devices? Danni Wu shares the approaches she uses at Bing to automate mobile device testing. At Bing, they run mobile automated test suites across different stages of product development cycles—pre-check-in, rolling integration build, pre-ship, and production. To validate different quality aspects of products...

Telemetry and machine-to-machine communication have evolved from custom, purpose-built solutions into a new generation of Internet of Things products that broker data to multiple clouds. Michael Finegan focuses on public vs. private networks and how to create intelligent end-node and gateway solutions using embedded cellular and long range RF systems. Learn when you should use a pre-certified device and when to move to a custom embedded module. Michael shares how to prototype solutions using ARM’s mbed (crowdsourced) browser-based compiler and how to move into production using cloud-based...

A common problem in mobile and IoT systems is the large number and combinations of hardware, operational, and software configurations that need to be tested. For example, the so-called Android fragmentation problem might lead a test team to test hundreds of device and several software configurations, potentially yielding thousands or even tens of thousands of tests. Combinatorial testing, a technique involving mathematics and specific tooling, allows teams to reduce the number of test cases, while still assuring good error finding capabilities. Jon Hagar examines test combinatorial...

In the Internet of Things (IoT) world, you need to understand and exploit opportunities in the rapidly evolving core connectivity domain. To ensure that products will realize IoT benefits, plans and roadmaps must include connectivity requirements, activities, and projected costs. Steven Woodward shares perspectives from communication industry standards—NIST, TM Forum, QuEST Forum, ISO/ IEC, OMG, and ITU-T. He describes the NIST Cloud Carrier Framework that clarifies where the carrier and communication activities fit into the cloud and IoT ecosystem. This model defines the connectivity...

As organizations implement their mobile strategy, testing teams must support new technologies—while still maintaining existing systems. Melissa Tondi describes the major trends and innovations in mobile technology, usage patterns, tools, and test equipment that you should consider when transitioning existing test teams or starting new ones. Based on information from more than two years of research with a lab-based consultant team, Melissa focuses on areas that balance efficiency and productivity, including use of a Device Matrix technique to select devices to test against, and when to use...