Lab tools for pre-certification and validation.

Lab certification tools are designed for formal pre-certification testing. They're typically used by QA teams at the end of the development cycle to validate that the application conforms to specific test plans from each card brand. These tools are required to obtain official EMV Level 2 certifications and often rely on probe-based hardware and manual processes.

Swittest for developers.

By contrast, Swittest is designed for payment application developers and integrates directly into their daily workflows and enables:
- Automated testing of EMV Level 2 functionality on every commit
- Custom test cases to simulate edge cases beyond standard test plans
- Virtualized test environments that don’t require physical terminals

This gives developers the tools they need to build for certification from day one—catching issues early, validating updates quickly, and expanding test coverage beyond what’s possible with certification tools alone.

Why combine Swittest + lab tools? 

Swittest and lab tools serve different but complementary roles.
Teams can use Swittest during development to:
- Run EMV L2 tests continuously in CI pipelines or local dev environments
- Quickly debug issues using virtual terminals and developer logs
- Validate fixes across multiple brands and configurations before involving QA or external labs
- Then, use lab tools at the end of the cycle for formal pre-certification with official probes and documentation.

By combining both tools:
- Developers gain autonomy to test and improve their code without waiting on QA
- QA teams receive better-prepared builds, reducing back-and-forth during certification
- Teams gain more test coverage, improve quality, and shorten time-to-certification