Simulator application on mobile device for integration testing

Abstract

Methods and systems for performing efficient integration tests on mobile device for contactless data transfers are described. Rather than performing contactless communications with a variety of test user devices (e.g., test smart cards), which may be time consuming and may present physical difficulty, a mobile device can simulate the result of these communications using a simulator application operating on the mobile device. A contactless communication application, also operating on the mobile device, can communicate with the simulator application in order to generate interaction payloads based on stored data records corresponding to the test user devices. These interaction payloads can then be transmitted by the mobile device to a processing computer. Later, the mobile device may receive a response from the processing computer or another computer system, indicating if the interaction payloads were successfully received and interpreted. This in turn may indicate if the integration test was successful.