Test derivation for semantically described IoT services

Encapsulating IoT resources in services with comprehensive semantic descriptions of the involved components is a promising approach to overcome current silo architectures in the IoT domain. More important than the enablement of service composition, automated test derivation is expected to be on of the key drivers of rapid creation of robust IoT applications. The paper describes how concepts for semantically described web services can be transferred into the IoT domain. Therefore, methodology to enrich service descriptions for (semi-) automated test derivation and the required IoT specific adaptations are discussed in detail. First prototypical implementations prove that the envisaged lightweight extension can amplify the usefulness of web services descriptions for the test derivation for IoT-based services.