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Validata MSG

  Overview

Validata MSG provides an innovative automated testing framework with best practices and proven methodologies for testing of SWIFT, ATM, SOA and generic interfaces.

With application environments becoming more complex, the introduction of SOA becoming more common place and the use of best-of-breed solutions, testing of the integration points between applications is becoming a key phase of any testing engagement.

Validata MSG has been developed to reduce the effort, simplify and de-risk the integration testing phase of your projects. End-to-end scenarios can be developed and tested at many levels, from ensuring file formatting, data content and behavior of sending/receiving application.


       
 

Advantages and Benefits:

  
  Integration into existing test effort  
  Simulation of real world business conditions  
  Tool-driven approach  
  Accelerated time to market  
  Extensive reusability with pre-built test scenarios  
  Cost effective testing  
  Reduction of testing effort by 30% or more  
  Substantial reduction in human error  
  Improved testing efficiency and increased productivity  
  Complete coverage, reducing business risks  
  Fast ROI with measurable results  
  Reduced deployment costs through increased effectiveness and accuracy of distributed application roll-outs across environments  
       



  Product Capabilities
The product’s features and capabilities include:

SWIFT Testing

Validata SWIFT provides a comprehensive testing framework for Temenos T24™ with integrated SWIFT components, which include:

  1. Integrated SWIFT adapter
  2. Pre-built test scenarios based on dynamic data, enabling reusability across multiple projects.
  3. Innovative Testing as a Service solution
  4. Support for Incoming and Outgoing Messages
  5. Message structure verification on:
    1. System Messages
    2. Customer Payments and Cheques
    3. Financial Institution Transfers
    4. Treasury Markets
    5. Collection and Cash Letters
    6. Securities Markets
    7. Treasury Markets - Metals and Syndications
    8. Documentary Credits and Guarantees
    9. Travelers Cheques
    10. Cash Management and Customer Status
  6. Business context verification
  7. Online reconciliation and update of messages
  8. Parsing and Validation of Incoming and Outgoing SWIFT messages
  9. Verifying the mapping of the fields between the Banking application and the SWIFT message format
  10. Verifying the Delivery statuses of the SWIFT generated messages
  11. Embedded SWIFT Format and Mapping rules’ Library
  12. Automated checking of message content and results generated in Banking Application
SOA Testing
Because of the inherent complexity and broad impact of a SOA implementation, a centralized approach to testing is the ideal organizational structure for overseeing alignment of your business and IT requirements. SOA message testing is complicated as it requires the testing of interfaces and services that might bring together diverse systems and platforms, in addition to performance and security related issues. Extensive testing of web services is essential to securing the enterprise from potential business risks and scalability problems.

Validata adopts a comprehensive tool-based message-driven test approach for SOA testing. This facilitates testing application to application communication across multiple layers of technology stacks.
ATM Testing

In order to validate the ATM messages and ensure that the host system processes them correctly several testing is required. Ensure continuous ATM message testing through Validata MSG:

  1. Create messages for advanced ATM functions (such as multiple currencies, non-currencies, non-envelope deposits)
  2. Perform testing with messages that contain specific field data
  3. Rapidly replay existing QA and regression test scripts
  4. Run all transactions with all of your test cards (e.g.. hot cards, chip cards, not-on-us cards)