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Is there a Java based API to simulate smart card access and thereby write functional tests for a functionality that depends on data read from smart card? We use contact based readers in this case so simulation is needed if we want to write functional tests. I have heard about jCardSim but not sure if it is applicable or how to use it (examples)?

Sotirios Delimanolis
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  • May I know why this question was down voted? I definitely need to find an API to write functional test code for smart card access and the category for down vote seems to be of "off-topic". I can't understand how it appears to be off topic, when my question looks at least to me to be programming related? – Paddy Jul 31 '15 at 02:47
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You can implement a terminal for the javax.smartcardio library. That terminal doesn't have to be an actual terminal, it can also be a virtual one. This is also how jCardSim works, last time I looked anyway.

Of course you don't need all that if you just have to test the "data read from the smart card". Data can be stored on disk and the encoding can be tested separately.

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