Continuous Testing in the Development of IoT Applications

Internet-of-Things has evolved with the increased volume of data of interconnecting the physical world to the Internet. Cloud provides the underlying power for IoT to become a disrupting technology, revolutionizing the cloud, as we know it. IoT applications need to adapt frequently and rapidly to new requests. Increasing competition and rapidly changing market needs require from nowadays companies' flexibility and fast time to market of their products. To achieve these goals more and more organizations are relying on new IT technologies and software development processes. Though there are many publications around DevOps as a methodology and the use of a process for continuous integration and continuous development, there are fewer solutions provided which incorporate a software delivery pipeline incorporating all processes: continuous business planning, agile development, continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous testing. The paper proposes a DevOps architecture and agile tools to be used in the implementation of a fully integrated DevOps pipeline based on open-source. Furthermore, continuous testing is covering test best practices and methods, which along with the DevOps pipeline can be widely implemented in any cloud environment, regardless of the cloud provider chosen.