No one wants to issue a recall rush to market or an emergency software update, so extensive and thorough testing is essential to product success. Remembering the 2016 forced recall of 4.3 million cameras that contributed to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is enough to keep any engineer awake at night.
In an ideal world, we would all have the time and resources available to fully test software for months, but few of us are working in that world. The range of devices, incompatible standards, insufficiently defined standards, protocols and environments further complicate comprehensive testing. The cost of maintaining in-house test resources is huge, forcing many organizations to tolerate incomplete and representative testing. Testing is a critically challenging issue in this market and industry.
Engineers may find some to their IoT testing woes addressed by QualiTest’s recently announced an advanced IoT testing solution. This solution offers a comprehensive testing solution developed specifically for IoT systems. QualiTest’s approach offers multiple benefits over in-house testing solutions:
- A full range of security, performance, interoperability, connectivity, power, robustness, communication and mobile app test capabilities to more comprehensively test IoT systems
- Simulated network experiments to more comprehensively test scenarios that cannot be readily or practically implemented in the field
- Testing of real devices in advanced lab testing and real-world crowd testing to better evaluate user interaction and usage
- Diverse testing on a range of devices to better evaluate portability and compatibility between different devices
- A lower cost test solution that provides broader more complete testing at lower cost than in-house testing