FASTest™ for ISO

ISO 8583 Simulation and Testing from Your PC: Automated and Verifiable with FASTest™

The Best PC tool for Significantly Reducing the ePayment Testing Effort for EFT Switches and POS Devices

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) simulation and testing is invaluable when you need to certify with an ePayments switch, send transactions through a credit or debit card processor, add a new Point-of-Sale (POS) device, or expand your host application. However, testing with a variety of ISO 8583 message formats can be challenging. FASTest™ is the first Windows®-based PC tool to significantly reduce the EFT simulation and testing effort for EFT switches.

>> Our Customers Say

EFT Testing that is Fast, Flexible, and Thorough

• Choose existing test scripts or easily build customized scripts
• Thoroughly test all message types: requests, replies, reversals, logons and logoffs, handshakes and key changes
• Simulate dynamic and intelligent responses to messages using FASTest’s Auto Reply features
• Eliminate the chore of bitmap calculations
• Easily construct test messages—using wizards to populate message fields with valid data (or even invalid data for "what if" scenarios)
• Automatically replay all of the transactions in your FASTest script—transactions that previously required hours in the test lab—with a single click
• Quickly validate triple DES encryption
• Accurately test EMV chip card transactions

Solve Problems and Document EFT Testing Results

• Resolve real life problems by importing and replaying production data and comparing obtained results against your expected results
• Print test results to easily document your EFT testing program

Increase Testing Productivity

• Schedule pre-selected tests to run automatically—24/7 and receive an e-mail of results or archive them for later viewing (Optional add-on feature)
• Share test cases including test groups, scripts, cards, transactions, and messages using FASTest’s export/import utility

Easy Network Pre-Certification

If you drive terminals or perform processing for other institutions, you can offer FASTest to your members as a tool for simulating their connection to your system. Pre-certifying with a simulated connection reduces the time and expense associated with verifying these inter-network message exchanges. FASTest is the ideal EFT simulator to test all of your applications that use the ISO 8583 message set including your:

• Host authorization system
• EFT switch interface
• Credit card processor, and
• POS terminal-driving applications

Ask Paragon about certified versions of FASTest for Visa, STAR, NYCE or Fifth Third. Paragon takes pride in the exhaustive set of test cases provided for key interfaces (though you are free to add new ones). Frequently, the test cases are labeled according to the network's own documentation.

Use One Tool for All of Your ePayment Simulation and Testing Needs

• Because FASTest's user interface and operation are virtually the same, regardless of the message format, you can easily move from one format to another
• FASTest is available to simulate and validate over 60 financial message formats including POS, ISO, IFX and ATM

Contact Paragon to find out how you can strengthen your ePayment simulation and testing program with FASTest.

Copyright © 1996-2009, Paragon Application Systems