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Questions tagged [testing]

For questions about automated or manual tests to verify the safety, security and functionality of Internet of Things devices. For software testing, consider asking at Software Engineering Stack Exchange instead, or Software Quality Assurance & Testing Stack Exchange.

Use this tag for questions that are about automated/manual testing of IoT devices.

Consider the question check list if your question fits the tag. You can also look at the example questions. If this tag doesn't fit your question have a look below at somehow related tags that might fit your question better.

Question checklist

  • Is the question about testing a device connected to the Internet of Things?
  • Is the question not just about general software testing processes?

Example questions

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How can I properly test my device's PCB antenna?

I'm in the middle of testing a Z-Wave device I created with a PCB antenna. I want to make sure that the antenna has a good range and the signal strength generated is strong enough and comparable to similar devices in the field. How can I properly…
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What simple security tests can I perform on my MQTT network?

I am about to set up an MQTT network at home. I want to build up some knowledge by practical exercises. It would be a small network with the broker hosted on my laptop (Windows 7) and some Raspberry Pi powered client. Also I am thinking about making…
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Testing the success of Over the Air updates

What is the best practice to ensure an IoT device has been updated successfully? What do you need to do in order to test OTA updates and authenticate devices? Taking it a step further, how can you monitor/manage the software versions (updates) of a…
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Ways of testing IoT sensor security

I am supervising a group of students and their task is to build iot sensors for a few different tasks (ie temperature, movement). I want to score them on how securely they design their sensors among other things, since security seems to be such a…
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How does the Nest Protect autotest?

I've been reading about Nest's various devices, and one particularly useful device has come to my notice: Nest Protect. However, one thing still puzzles me. It says on their web page that: The new Nest Protect has been redesigned from the…
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Testing security of IoT devices

Searching the archives for "fuzz" and "pentest" only results in 2-3 relevant threads on this topic and they are all from 2016/2017. I would really like to subject my IoT devices (e.g. surveillance cameras) to severe testing to uncover bugs and other…
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Testing a telemetry and telecommand interface

I am currently writing a generic telecommand and telemetry library which I plan to use on Zephyr RTOS. Given an input CSV file, it generates some C++ code which can then easily be integrated in the rest of the project. Specifically, it generates a…
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How do you debug your ESP32 applications?

So, I asked a question on Hardware Recommendations, looking for a Windows USB dongle for LoRa/LoRaWan and BT5/BLE I want to develop on ESP32 and to use my Windows laptop as a server to the ESP32's client. The reason I asked that question looking for…
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Test automation

Hey I'm looking at implementing some test automation running on target devices and reporting back up to Azure. Has anyone implemented any sort of test automation where metrics and pass/fail information reported to a central server? For example, if…
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Testing range for WLAN IEEE 802 11b/g/n

Are there any standardised test standards to test the Wifi Range of my ESP32 inside of my products enclosure. I want to know what range(s) it can operate so I can provide recommendations to users of my product.
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