  To effectively test parts of the Internet of Things (IoT) systems with a
state machine character, Model-based Testing (MBT) approach can be taken. In
MBT, a system model is created, and test cases are generated automatically from
the model, and a number of current strategies exist. In this paper, we propose
a novel alternative strategy that concurrently allows us to flexibly adjust the
preferred length of the generated test cases, as well as to mark the states, in
which the test case can start and end. Compared with an intuitive N-switch
coverage-based strategy that aims at the same goals, our proposal generates a
lower number of shorter test cases with fewer test step duplications.
