Network Solutions: Pre-Certification Testing

Change is a constant in a thriving ePayments environment. Perhaps you are updating your host system, implementing network mandates, or connecting with a new credit or debit card network. Any changes that effect transaction processing between networks and financial institutions require testing to ensure they will work in production. By pre-certifying with a network simulator, you can catch and fix errors thereby reducing the time and expense of actual on-line certification testing.

Paragon offers products and services for accurate, easy pre-certification testing. Paragon FASTest™ is a QA and regression testing tool that accurately simulates several EFT networks. Network members can test changes that are identical to those they will experience in production. This enables users to verify that their host system can accurately process transactions prior to on-line network certification.

If you are a switch or debit or credit card processor, you can offer FASTest or Web FASTest™ to members for pre-certification testing. Certification testing typically involves someone at your network member’s site and a technician at your site conducting the same test transactions over and over until they are processed correctly. Web FASTest is a centralized test tool that enables switch network members to conduct on-demand, unattended testing from their PCs—24 hours a day—through your Internet or Intranet connection, without requiring a technical resource on-site.

Paragon Professional Services Specialists combine pre-certification testing knowledge with expertise in more than 60 financial transaction message formats. Services include:

• Delivering and installing FASTest and Web FASTest software
• Customizing production data files for testing
• Updating test cases to support mandates
• Comprehensive product training

To find out more about how Paragon software and services can help you save time and money with pre-certification testing, contact sales@paragonedge.com.

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