Speed, Accuracy, Control: Web FASTest Delivers

Web FASTest is a comprehensive testing platform that prioritizes user access, collaboration, automation, and control to help organizations manage the evolving world of digital payments more efficiently.

Web FASTest productivity gains will help save both time and money, turning your testing operations into a competitive advantage.

By enabling your teams to be more efficient, more accurate, and more successful, Web FASTest will enable them to consistently deliver a superior payment experience to your customers on every transaction. 

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Web FASTest at a Glance

Web FASTest has been specifically designed to streamline and optimize the payment testing and certification processes used by virtually all credit and debit card issuers, acquirers, networks, gateways, and retailers. 

Web FASTest provides 24x7 access and self-service capabilities for both the acquiring and issuing sides of the messages that make up a digital payment transaction for any given specification, including EMV contact and contactless processing, putting users in total control of their testing environment.   

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Web FASTest Capabilities

1. A Complete Payment Testing Platform

Web FASTest is a scalable, multi-module testing framework for creating, sharing, and running simulated financial transactions.

The web-enabled application empowers multiple users in different physical locations to remotely access payment test data via a simple browser-based interface for testing a variety of financial message processing scenarios.

3. Collaboration and Efficiency

Web FASTest provides a centralized command and control infrastructure, allowing system administrators to easily manage user access, roles, and permissions, as well as providing access to test scripts, cards, and media. 

Flexible automation capabilities complement and enhance manual testing efforts, enabling teams to run more tests in less time. Automation also provides the opportunity to schedule and run large sets of transactions for regression testing.

5. Performance Testing

The integrated performance testing capabilities of Web FASTest make it easy to use existing functional test scripts to run different types of load tests at any time.

Regular and rigorous performance testing helps ensure your payment systems can handle changes in transaction volumes, including rapid spikes and peak workloads, with no negative impacts on the consumer payment experience.

7. Faster Certification Time Frames

Card issuers need to test messages and transactions as if they have been sent in by acquirers, processors, or networks.  Merchants and acquirers need a test host that can act as an issuer and correctly respond to messages and transactions.

Web FASTest supports both issuers and acquirers by providing current and accurate specification data, along with 24/7 anytime, anywhere remote access and self-service capabilities to improve the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of their testing operations and reduce the time and cost involved with payment card certification.

2. Visibility and Versatility

Web FASTest combines significant out-of-the-box functionality with configurable options for both issuer and acquirer message processing and validation - allowing users to edit and validate fields down to the bit level.

Web FASTest also provides detailed visibility into EMV tag data, message processing, and encryption logic.

4. Project Tracking
The Web FASTest Project Dashboard feature allows users to define and create specific groups of tests - with expected results - so that they can quickly and easily track the progress of any project or the progress of multiple projects at a glance.
6. Continuous Integration

Modern payment testing tools like Web FASTest are designed to integrate with enterprise systems, such as CI/CD pipelines.

This integration, via the published API, helps foster collaboration and ensures that every code change, no matter how minor, can be tested before deployment.

The Web FASTest API can also make payment testing data and operations accessible to other applications and systems.

8. Flexible Deployment Options

Web FASTest supports multiple system configuration options and can be deployed on-prem or in either a public or private cloud environment.

Deployment flexibility helps reduce infrastructure costs while providing 24x7 access to testing resources across multiple time zones and geographies.

Web FASTest also supports SAML 2.0, facilitating secure and efficient integration with SSO environments.

1. A Complete Payment Testing Platform

Web FASTest is a scalable, multi-module testing framework for creating, sharing, and running simulated financial transactions.

The web-enabled application empowers multiple users in different physical locations to remotely access payment test data via a simple browser-based interface for testing a variety of financial message processing scenarios.

2. Visibility and Versatility

Web FASTest combines significant out-of-the-box functionality with configurable options for both issuer and acquirer message processing and validation - allowing users to edit and validate fields down to the bit level.

Web FASTest also provides detailed visibility into EMV tag data, message processing, and encryption logic.

3. Collaboration and Efficiency

Web FASTest provides a centralized command and control infrastructure, allowing system administrators to easily manage user access, roles, and permissions, as well as providing access to test scripts, cards, and media. 

Flexible automation capabilities complement and enhance manual testing efforts, enabling teams to run more tests in less time. Automation also provides the opportunity to schedule and run large sets of transactions for regression testing.

4. Project Tracking
The Web FASTest Project Dashboard feature allows users to define and create specific groups of tests - with expected results - so that they can quickly and easily track the progress of any project or the progress of multiple projects at a glance.
5. Performance Testing

The integrated performance testing capabilities of Web FASTest make it easy to use existing functional test scripts to run different types of load tests at any time.

Regular and rigorous performance testing helps ensure your payment systems can handle changes in transaction volumes, including rapid spikes and peak workloads, with no negative impacts on the consumer payment experience.

6. Continuous Integration

Modern payment testing tools like Web FASTest are designed to integrate with enterprise systems, such as CI/CD pipelines.

This integration, via the published API, helps foster collaboration and ensures that every code change, no matter how minor, can be tested before deployment.

The Web FASTest API can also make payment testing data and operations accessible to other applications and systems.

7. Faster Certification Time Frames

Card issuers need to test messages and transactions as if they have been sent in by acquirers, processors, or networks.  Merchants and acquirers need a test host that can act as an issuer and correctly respond to messages and transactions.

Web FASTest supports both issuers and acquirers by providing current and accurate specification data, along with 24/7 anytime, anywhere remote access and self-service capabilities to improve the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of their testing operations and reduce the time and cost involved with payment card certification.

8. Flexible Deployment Options

Web FASTest supports multiple system configuration options and can be deployed on-prem or in either a public or private cloud environment.

Deployment flexibility helps reduce infrastructure costs while providing 24x7 access to testing resources across multiple time zones and geographies.

Web FASTest also supports SAML 2.0, facilitating secure and efficient integration with SSO environments.

Web FASTest Technical Highlights

Bringing functional, regression, and performance testing capabilities together into a single platform that can be deployed on-prem or in the cloud, Web FASTest delivers the features, functions, and flexibility needed to turbocharge your payment testing operations.

Connectivity 

  • 24x7 access for unattended testing
  • Simple browser UI (tabs, find, back, etc.)
  • TLS 1.2, TR 31, and TR 34 key blocks
  • Published API
  • Configurable deployment options

 

Functionality

  • Issuer and Acquirer message processing
  • EMV contact and contactless
  • Issuer scripts, ARQC, and ARPC processing
  • Functional, regression & pre-cert testing
  • Performance testing (stress, load, etc.)

Collaboration

  • Configurable user roles and permissions
  • Shared access to cards, scripts, results, etc.

  • Individual sandbox environments
  • Project definition and tracking
  • Results archive for review & re-testing

 

Control

  • Centralized management infrastructure

  • Bit-level editing and validation
  • Flexible automation options
  • Logs & reports for audits & analytics

  • Full system administrator functions

Web FASTest Message Specifications

Web FASTest supports issuer and acquirer message processing for dozens of regional, national, and global message specifications. Paragon provides regular release updates for supported formats to help clients keep up to date with card scheme mandates and compliance changes.

Following is a partial list of supported specifications. If you don't see what you need, please ask!

AFFN (FIS)
American Express GNS
AS2805
BASE24 HISO 87
BIC ISO POS & ATM
CO-OP
CULIANCE
Diners Club Xpress
Discover (Authorization)
FIS (Formerly eFunds)
FDR-180, -183, & -184
Fiserv EPOC ISO
Fiserv EPOC ANSI
Interac Debit and Interac Flash (POS)
Interac Cash (ATM)
ISO 20022 (Beta)
Mastercard DMS
Mastercard IPS
Mastercard NEX
Mastercard SMS
NYCE
Presto!
PULSE
SHAZAM
SPAN2 MBI - 'mada'
Northeast
UnionPay
Visa BASE I
Visa DPS
Visa SMS
Vocalink LIS5
WEX (Wright Express)

Device Formats

Diebold Nixdorf D912
HPDH
NCR NDC+
SPDH
Triton
Wincor

Due to variations in card scheme, payment network, and processor specifications, their capabilities may differ.  Please consult Paragon for details.

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For more than 30 years Paragon has been providing innovative solutions to some of the largest and most sophisticated financial services organizations in the world, including banks, card brands, networks, processors, ATM deployers, payment gateways, fintechs and retailers.

 

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