FASTress

What is FASTress?

Determining system capacity is critical when you upgrade the transaction system, add new ATM or POS devices, merge an acquired network, add new transactions, or change the switch. The last thing you want is for your users to experience delays or denied transactions because your system is overloaded. Assess overall system capacity and identify bottlenecks, so you don't experience them in production, with FASTress.

Performance, reference and capacity (load) testing

Thoroughly test device handling, network throughput, and communications bandwidth by processing huge volumes of simultaneous transactions from multiple sources. FASTress simultaneously emulates every device on your network, including ATM and POS devices, switch issuers, and acquirers. Vary the volume of transactions during testing - send multiple transactions per second as a POS switch or concentrator, or send transactions synchronously as an ATM. Dynamically increase or decrease transactions per second (TPS) or change the number of active connections (that is, the number or types of devices) during testing to determine the effect on system performance.

Accurate simulation of a variety of endpoints

Perform comprehensive load or stress tests on your desktop, without scheduling test time with your switches or without a room full of real ATMs. Accurately simulate a single high-volume device or switch, or up to hundreds of transaction originators, including POS devices, multiple types of ATMs, and multiple issuers or acquirers of switches – in multiple combinations. Test multiple endpoints (for example, online cards at an ATM to test host processing, non-online cards at an ATM to test routing and external authorization endpoints) using multiple agents, and individual card files per agent. FASTress dynamically encrypts PIN data during testing, making it easy to stress test Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).

Real-time results displayed during testing, reports for analysis after testing

During testing, examine a real-time graphical view of requests per second (RPS) for the consolidated system and for each test scheme. After the test, review the test results reports and the raw test data for further analysis, including number of requests and requests per second, average response time, and number of responses received.

System Requirements

Windows XP or higher

RAM: 256Mb (512MB recommended)

Hard Drive: 100MB required for installation