Design of Conformance Testing Framework for IP-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks have gained immense popularity for decades and a new approach, IP-based WSNs, has recently emerged as a future technology advancing the era of ubiquitous computing. Thus, this paper designs a conformance testing framework suitable for IP-WSNs. The framework is an automatic testing methodology that consists of a test agent as a test executor located on the Internet side, a test manager in a gateway that manages testing jobs and test cases, and a software under test (SUT), which represents the actual target in the sensor nodes. The testing framework leverages the useful method of existing tools, complements their drawback.