MODE: A Customizable Open-Source Testing Framework for IoT Systems and Methodologies

Rareș Cristea, Ciprian Paduraru, Alin Stefanescu, Alin Stefanescu

2025

Abstract

With the growing integration of software and hardware, IoT security solutions must become more efficient to maintain user trust, boost enterprise revenue, and support developers. While fuzzing is a common testing method, few solutions exist for fuzzing an entire IoT application stack. The absence of an open-source application set limits accurate methodology comparisons. This paper addresses these gaps by providing an open-source application set with real and artificially injected issues and proposing a framework for guided fuzzing. The solutions are language-agnostic and compatible with various hardware. Finally, we evaluate these methods to assess their impact on vulnerability discovery.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cristea R., Paduraru C. and Stefanescu A. (2025). MODE: A Customizable Open-Source Testing Framework for IoT Systems and Methodologies. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-742-9, SciTePress, pages 441-448. DOI: 10.5220/0013267500003928

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase25,
author={Rareș Cristea and Ciprian Paduraru and Alin Stefanescu},
title={MODE: A Customizable Open-Source Testing Framework for IoT Systems and Methodologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE},
year={2025},
pages={441-448},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013267500003928},
isbn={978-989-758-742-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE
TI - MODE: A Customizable Open-Source Testing Framework for IoT Systems and Methodologies
SN - 978-989-758-742-9
AU - Cristea R.
AU - Paduraru C.
AU - Stefanescu A.
PY - 2025
SP - 441
EP - 448
DO - 10.5220/0013267500003928
PB - SciTePress