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Ascert Raises the Stress Testing Bar

1/14/2020

 
Financial Services Companies increase stress test capabilities using advanced test technologies from Ascert

As alternative methods of consumer purchase continue to be created and transaction volumes increase, the need for financial institutions to verify system capacity quickly and accurately is critical. So called “stress testing” is aimed at ensuring transactional workloads at volumes that are in line with, and above, predicted peak production levels. VersaTest is uniquely capable and scalable to meet this challenge – helping with optimizing, tuning, and finding error conditions at real-life operational transaction rates.

“It is important to our customers that our ability to simulate transaction loads and traffic keep pace with their business growth”, said Paul Adams, Product Architect at Ascert. “Working closely with our partners during stress testing exercises, we are able to push their software & hardware configurations to their absolute limits.”

Ascert recently completed a stress test project of an HPE NonStop system belonging to a top-10 world-ranked financial institution. Using standard off-the-shelf software deployed on a flexible array of virtual servers, VersaTest was used to simulate the company’s point-of-sale terminals, back-end authorizing hosts and related card-issuer networks. The project achieved transaction per second levels more than double the previous exercise conducted for the same client, and 10 times the levels they were achieving in the run up to Y2K.

VersaTest’s ability to rapidly scale and balance across virtual nodes means there is no real upper limit to the TPS rates possible. Stress testing of full end-to-end payment transactions at rates of tens of thousands of TPS are now possible for any organization with a large and diverse enough consumer-base to demand such large-scale usage.

Ascert provides certification and stress testing services both on-premise and via the company’s popular cloud based test system called Ascertified (www.Ascertified.com). A growing number of companies have created a hybrid of both cloud and self-hosted options, increasing flexibility for both internal users and external partners.

To find out more about Ascert products and standard test interfaces visit the Ascert website or contact a local Ascert office.

About Ascert:
Ascert is recognized as a leading provider of premier testing software solutions. Ascert was founded in 1992 to provide automated software testing solutions that help companies measure the performance, reliability and scalability of their mission-critical back-end servers and applications. With over 100 clients worldwide, Ascert's products and services are used at some of the world's most successful companies.

Off-the-shelf simulators for Ascert’s VersaTest product include solutions for EFT testing, POS testing, stress testing, ATM testing, Fraud testing, IFX testing, EMV/chip card testing, ISO8583 testing and 3270 & 6530 terminal testing. Ascert’s custom simulators have been used for testing air traffic control systems and biometric payment systems. Ascert delivers flexible solutions that are either customer site installed or accessed via Ascert’s Remote Testing Services. Ascert's products assist testing professionals across industry segments to better manage their testing processes and environments through an end-to-end tool set.

For inquiries in the America’s and Asia-Pacific:
Richard B. Greene
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Modern Test Automation for Legacy Applications

12/14/2018

 
Published in "The Connection" magazine, Nov/Dec 2018

Green Screen, in 2018, seriously?

​It's hard to say what is most surprising. To be sitting in the last throes of 2018, writing an article about green screen applications. Or to have recently found myself deep in the bowels of 3270 and 6530 terminal data streams writing code to automate the testing of them. More accurately, that should really read 'porting code' - since my firm, Ascert, has had a TAL screen handling and testing library since I first joined (and worked on it) back in 1997. Even then, I think most of us assumed it was the last chance saloon for a technology that would soon go the way of the dinosaurs, disco, and flares. But time and the future makes fools of us all I guess. Especially those whose predictions of the death of the mainframe have proved somewhere between premature and wildly inaccurate. 

​At least the cause of this peculiar turn of events is simple to explain – a customer needed it. Rather less easy to explain is why this wasn't just one isolated customer, but a steady stream of requests from different sources over a period of months. Having barely had a single conversation over testing this style of application for the last 20 years, all of a sudden it was a hotter topic than contactless EMV testing, or Open Banking APIs. Being more of a practitioner than an analyst though, I parked my curiosity as to this resurgent interest and got on with the far more solvable task of understanding what was required and cracking on with delivering it. In so doing, I unwittingly uncovered some pieces that could help explain what was going on...

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