Framework for Near Field Communication Controller Interface Protocol over Virtual IC

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless connectivity technology used to transfer various types of information quickly and easily between two NFC-enabled devices, when held close to each other. NFC host software or middleware software (software that connects the host application to the NFC system) testing involves interaction with the NFC hardware system. In unit testing, developers often deal with software artifacts that have many dependencies while writing automated unit tests. In these cases, one has the option to instantiate the dependencies or use mock objects to simulate the expected behavior of the dependencies. The proposed NFC Mock Framework is a software application that is used to mimic the behavior of an NFC Controller and also eliminate the hardware dependency for handling various NFC use cases like the positive, negative, and error cases for Middleware testing. Middleware or Host software testing can be made feasible even in the absence of an NFC Controller by replacing the transport layer of NFC with a Mock Framework.