The new testing environments are dedicated to the development needs of CME Globex electronic trading customers.

• Certification Environment mirrors the production environment, including functionality and messaging.
• New Release Environment reflects the next functional release to support customers' development and certification efforts for new functionality.

Both environments are similar in size and scale to the production environment and support straight-through processing for CME Globex to Clearing testing, and are connected to clearing test environments so customers can test front-end and back-end systems simultaneously.

CME CERTLink and Client CERTLink connectivity are currently available for performance testing, and VPN connectivity for functional testing only.

Documentation on the testing environments and related connectivity is available online in the Certification and Testing SDK. Comprehensive documentation for CME Globex connectivity and development is available in the CME Globex SDKs.

With this launch, CME Group is also introducing AutoCert+ , the next-generation automated certification tool.

Access to Certification, New Release Certification and AutoCert+
Request iLink IDs for the testing and certification environments and AutoCert+ by contacting your CME Globex Account Manager.