Dispatching the Demanding Dozen:
Preparing Your Testers to Face The Financial Industry’s Top 12 Challenges

Finding Tools to Meet Primary Testing Goals

To deliver error-free code on time and within budget, you must have tools for:

• Unit testing to validate individual software components or modules against the design specifications
  
  
• Conformance testing to verify the implementation’s conformance to industry standards
  
  
• Functional testing to validate that the application meets the requirement specifications
  
  
• Performance testing using benchmarks to compare the system to past performance, or to determine the system’s ability to scale to anticipated processing rates (as in stress testing)
  
  
• Stress testing to evaluate a system at or beyond the limits of standard processing rates
  
  
• Integration testing to verify that any updated modules perform correctly when integrated with other modules.
  
  
• User acceptance testing during which the system is tested by prospective users and is evaluated based on whether or not the customer will accept the new system
  
  
• Regression testing to verify by consistent, repeatable testing that any additions or changes made to the system have not caused the failure of any previously provided functions

About Paragon Application Systems

Paragon Application Systems is a leading global provider of ePayment simulation, configuration and testing software solutions to the financial industry. More than 450 financial institutions in over 80 countries use Paragon tools to improve quality and reduce time-to-market. Paragon’s broad customer base includes major interchanges, merchant acquirers, processors, leading software providers, banks and credit unions. Visit Paragon Application Systems at www.paragonedge.com or email info@paragonedge.com.

ⁱACI Worldwide, "Study Predicts Doubling in Electronic Payment Volumes by 2010". Press release 2006-May-4. http://www.aciworldwide.com/igsbase/igstemplate.cfm?SRC=MD010&SRCN=index&GnavID=17&SnavID=82&TnavID=82&kw=Study%20Predicts%20Doubling%20in%20Electronic%20Payment%20Volumes%20by%202010. Cited 2006-Oct-1.

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