Design and implementation of testing platform for middleware of wireless sensor networks

Abstract

Middleware for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is system software between WSNs and applications, which provides a set of common application program interface (API). With the deeper research on the middleware of WSN, the researchers focus on the testing technologies on middleware of WSN and testing platform of middleware of WSN. In this paper, we summarize and propose the standards and common methods of the testing for middleware of WSN, referencing on the ISO/IEC 9126, CSTC and China Mobile standards. We design and implement a testing platform for middleware of WSN based on Web Integration and Eclipse Plug-in technologies, which could conduct the reliability testing, the performance testing and the stress testing for certain specific middle-ware. The platform provides two common testing methods including the manual way and the automatic way, which aims to efficiently verify the performance, the handling capability of error and the handling capability of concurrent for the middleware of WSN. Finally we give the design details and processes of each software module, and show the experimental evaluation of the testing platform. © 2013 Springer-Verlag.