Automated and Verifiable Switch and EFT Simulation and Testing Your PC

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

EFT Testing that is Fast, Flexible, and Thorough

Flexibility of choosing existing scripts or easily building customized scripts.

Thorough testing of all message types: requests, replies, reversals, logons and logoffs, handshakes and key changes.

Dynamic and intelligent responses to messages using FASTest™ for ISO Auto Reply and User Exit features.

Freedom from bitmap calculations.

Easy construction of test messages, using wizards to populate message fields with valid data (or even invalid data for "what if" scenarios).

Ability to simulate and validate over 60 message formats, including ISO-8583, EFT/POS formats, and IFX.

Quick validation of double length keys and triple DES encryption.

Using drag-and-drop techniques to build a customized message field-by-field.

Automated EFT Testing

Start testing with a log file of your own data as the basis of FASTest™ for ISO scripts or easily build a customized script to better meet your needs. Create new tests by dragging-and-dropping predefined test components (fields, messages, transactions, or scripts).

One Tool for All of Your EFT Simulation and Testing Needs

Because FASTest™ for ISO user interface and operation is virtually the same, regardless of the message format, you can easily move from one format to another.

Strengthen Your Quality Assurance Testing

Build a state-of-the-art quality assurance program with thorough, repeatable, and ever expanding test scripts for all of your best and worst case testing scenarios with FASTest™ for ISO. To resolve real life problems, import and replay production data comparing obtained results against your expected results. Print test results to easily document your EFT testing program.

Easy Network Pre-Certification

If you drive terminals or perform processing for other institutions, you can offer FASTest™ for ISO 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™ for ISO 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.

Point-of-sale (EFT/POS) terminal-driving applications

Ask Paragon about certified versions of FASTest™ for ISO for STAR, NYCE or FDR. 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

Minimize Risk

Proven in hundreds financial institutions, FASTest™ for ISO can be quickly installed and integrated into your environment, whether your organization is a small credit union or a large electronic payments network.

Communication Options

In addition to TCP/IP communications, Paragon also offers a third-party solution for SNA or BSC connectivity to your host for all WorkSmart ATM Suite™ and FASTest™ workstations on your LAN.

Eliminate the need for a physical connection to your host from each workstation.

Communicate using your host’s protocol, either TCP/IP, SNA, or BSC.

Simultaneously test from multiple workstations.