The new test system ‘Spectro TP’ – which has been qualified by GlobalPlat-form – advances interoperability in the Smart Card market. The all-interface Smart Card Conformance Test Platform will support operators as well as card and chip manufacturers in successfully marketing secure Smart Card solutions and services.
Conformance testing for mobile terminals as a way of avoiding interoperability problems between terminals and cards in the field has been known for a long time. GlobalPlatform now seeks the same for the Smart Card market and has established a compliance program. The new card conformance tester Spectro TP has demonstrated its ability of fully supporting GlobalPlatform's functional requirement in terms of ETSI SWP/HCI test case execution dur-ing the last GlobalPlatform ‘TestFest’ at the end of November. Spectro TP has achieved the GP qualification after its test cases had run successfully against a variety of cards.
