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Africonology CEO Mandla Mbonambi
There are seven layers that lie within
the Internet of Things; people and
process, applications, data analytics, data
ingestions, global infrastructure, the quality
of connectivity and edge computing,
and things. The goal is to unlock how to
make sense of these layers within IoT by
determining what type of testing is required.
With the right systems in place, every
problem can become an opportunity.
The proliferation of IoT devices and software
projects necessitates a sufficiently equipped
testing specialist. It also asks that there are
strategies in place to address the emergence
of these new challenges around usability,
integration, interoperability, performance and
synchronisation. The human element is critical
to unlocking this potential by looking at the
entire IoT ecosystem. It is the ‘why’ that’s
capable of pulling the threads of security,
performance, compatibility, interoperability
and data integrity into a cohesive pattern.
Testing is required to find the loopholes that
may exist within the network of devices,
platforms and systems. Already there are
real-world examples of how this has changed
business parameters and problems. The
business must know exactly how reliable its
solutions and ecosystems are and how viable
within the real world. And they need insight
into customer responses.
The game has changed. It is the ‘all eyes
on you’ market. It’s the time to examine
capability and delivery, to test automation
and to invest in the right tools. These are
the steps towards assessing the health of
your ecosystem and ensuring your customers
are happy. To effectively fulfil the remit of
IoT, the organisation must move away from
traditional quality assurance methodologies
towards intensive quality engineering. This
is the new roadmap, the one that blends
the why of the human with the ‘how’ of the
technology to determine the results of IoT. n
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