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Smarter Testing, Faster Releases: How PAX Technology, Inc.’s CyberLab is Revolutionizing Payment App Development
In the ever-evolving world of digital payments, speed, security, and efficiency are no longer optional; they’re mandatory. That’s where PAX’s CyberLab comes in. This revolutionary cloud-based testing platform is changing how payment applications are developed, tested, and certified, saving time and resources while accelerating innovation.
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What is CyberLab?
PAX Technology’s CyberLab is a cloud-based platform designed to streamline the development, testing, and certification of payment applications on PAX Android terminals. The devices are managed by advanced robotics and supported by skilled system engineers, giving developers remote access to fully functional, physical terminals.
This enables developers to build, test, and debug their software without having a single terminal on hand, removing physical limitations from the development process while preserving all the realism of a true device environment.
What are the Real Benefits?
The payments landscape moves fast. Merchants demand custom solutions; they need applications, and they want them quickly. Traditional QA and manual testing processes simply can’t keep up with that pace.
In the development of payment applications, virtual terminals play a critical role by allowing developers to simulate a full range of transaction types including purchases, refunds, pre-authorizations, and voids without the need for physical hardware.
CyberLab changes the game by allowing developers to:
- • Automate Functional Testing
- • Conduct Compatibility Testing
- • Simulate full transaction flows
- • Eliminate the need for in-person testing or multiple QA analysts
- • Accelerate the software life cycle from ideation to production-ready
In fact, CyberLab has been shown to replace the productivity of 3.75 QA testers per day, thanks to its automation and remote access capabilities. With browser-based testing and scriptable automation, development teams can work faster, smarter, and from anywhere.
Real Devices, Real Results
Unlike other virtual solutions that rely on simulation, CyberLab runs on real terminals. This ensures absolute accuracy and reliability in testing results, which is critical in the world of payment applications where precision matters.
Developers can create and run customized test scripts to check compatibility across multiple device models, all without lifting a physical card. With screen recording and script debugging features, it’s easy to pinpoint issues and make rapid adjustments.
Security at Its Core
Testing environments are just as critical as production environments when it comes to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. Virtual terminals, emulators, and sandboxes must be designed to prevent real cardholder data exposure. PCI compliance during testing not only protects organizations from potential breaches but also ensures that the transition from testing to live operation is smooth, secure, and audit ready. CyberLab was built with this in mind.
CyberLab ensures:
- • Isolation of test systems from live networks
- • Use of tokenized or anonymized card data for simulations
- • Full encryption of any sensitive data
- • Secure, auditable environments that align with compliance mandates
With CyberLab, you get peace of mind knowing your testing is secure and won’t compromise your PCI compliance.
Stress Test Like A Pro
Need to push your app to its limits? All Android developers can leverage CyberLab to stress test their applications by giving the terminal commands with automated test scripts. CyberLab’s support for automated functional, compatibility, and performance testing allows Android developers to stress test their applications without physical interaction, meaning they can automate card taps, swipes, and PIN entries, even simulate user behavior over hundreds of transactions, with real-time results and feedback.
These commands can also be screen recorded to make sure the proper actions are taking place according to the script. This is revolutionary and changing the development world as we know it. It’s a modern testing lab for a modern payments world.
Who Benefits from CyberLab?
CyberLab isn’t just for developers. It’s designed to serve various roles across the payments ecosystem:
- • Developers: For debugging, script testing, and bug verification
- • QA Teams: For full automation of smoke, compatibility, and performance testing
- • Customer Support: For reproducing issues quickly and remotely
- • Sales Engineers: For demonstrating applications on real terminals — without needing a demo kit
CyberLab is more than a virtual terminal, it’s a fully equipped, cloud-based development environment that brings physical payment hardware to your fingertips. It speeds up delivery, reduces costs, strengthens compliance, and empowers teams to do more with less. For those developing for the PAX ecosystem, CyberLab isn’t just an option — it’s a competitive advantage.
To learn more visit: https://www.pax.us/solutions/cyberlab or contact us at [email protected].