| With the rapid growth of mobile commerce in recent years, Location-based services (LBS) have generated a lot of interests and attracted many new researchers and market players developing and offering numerous applications in recent years. Therefore, effective testing strategies need to be considered for LBS. However, various technologies and the complex architecture involved in LBS cause numerous challenges on the LBS testing from many perspectives, including functionality, usability, performance, scalability, interoperability and security. In this thesis, we investigate the principles of all types of LBS and define the primary challenges on the LBS testing, and present a new test framework for testing Location-based services. The key idea of this test framework is to introduce a scalable test framework that enables a rapid prototyping test environment and the easy integration of third party components. We implement our test framework with the TTCN-3 testing language and the SWANS wireless simulator, and evaluate the test framework with an empirical investigation to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our test framework on the LBS testing from six testing strategies, including functional testing, usability testing and server side testing, performance testing, security testing and interoperability testing. |
