Reduce payments application testing efforts, leveraging automation for test case creation and execution.Dell Payments Test Harness

Key benefits• Reduces testing effort and time

by up to 30 percent** due to

automation and a predefined

set of test case scenarios

• Automates test case creation for

coverage of maximum possible

business scenarios

• Supports multiple payment message

types and is compatible with various

payment engines

• Allows easy comparison of actual

and expected results

Payment provisioning is a fundamental banking function that remains a key revenue earner for banks.

Improve performance of your payment applications with more effective testingThe payment business for banks has been evolving and becoming more challenging. The emergence of new instruments, channels, regional regulations and methods of making payments has significantly increased the scope, complexity and cost of managing payment operations. The importance of payments as a business driver has also been growing with payment business now representing 25 percent of total banking revenues with those revenues expected to grow at an 8 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next three years.*

It is imperative that banks have an effective strategy for handling payments. Often, there are multiple payment applications that must be managed on legacy technologies which present issues with scalability, flexibility and performance. A small functionality change requires impact analysis of up- and downstream applications, multiple design and development iterations, and stringent testing to minimize downtime. Additionally, in many payment projects, rigorous end-to-end testing is necessary to ensure coverage of multiple business rule combinations and complex scenarios.

Dell can help you improve the performance and testing time of your payment applications with our payments testing services. As a leading provider of payments solutions for over 15 years, we help global banks and clearing houses make their payments business into a more profitable business with strategic value.

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Dell Payments Test Harness

Innovate to reduce testing cycle timeWe aim to help global banks and clearing houses transform their payment operations, using best-in-class methodology, tools and frameworks that can help reduce costs and boost operating efficiency.

Payments testing is a critical and complex component of our payment services portfolio for financial institutions. We have created best-in-class tools that can reduce testing time by up to 30 percent.**

Adherence to multiple message types (XML, SWIFT, proprietary), channels, business rules, validations and other variables can be cumbersome in payment application testing. Banks spend much time and effort on manual test case creation and execution, and ensuring that all possible scenarios are covered is a difficult task.

We have built a testing framework specifically for payment applications

that automates test case creation, execution and results comparison to significantly reduce the time and effort needed for testing.

Introducing Dell Payments Test HarnessDell Payments Test Harness uses an automation framework to generate and test multiple scenarios and nested business rule combinations while reducing the need for manual intervention. Additionally, it supports integration with custom-made payments applications and multiple third-party payment engines for end-to-end regression testing.

Our proprietary independent application does not affect your existing payment applications in any way, ensuring high stability and safety of the existing business processes.

For more information about any of our service offerings, please visit Dell.com/services or contact your Dell representative.

Our credentials• Helped a leading clearing house in

Europe with joint development and

testing of four payment systems

capable of processing over 9 billion

transactions per year

• Supported a large retail bank

with third-party payment product

implementation and testing for

payment system modernization,

Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA)

and Faster Payments compliance

• Consulted with a leading bank in

Ireland to help them prioritize,

consolidate, rationalize and

streamline their payment

applications for SEPA compliance

• Helped a large bank to improve

their payments revenues by up to

40 percent through implementation

of a rule-based pricing system

Proven expertise• Dedicated payment and cash

management center of excellence

with experience spanning the

payment value chain

• More than 3,500 years total

experience in payment and cash

management projects across

application development, testing

and support

• Peak team size of more than 350

people on payments projects

• Reusable catalog of more than 750

test cases customized to payments

and SEPA requirements

• Industry-leading testing services

with experience working with more

than 20 product companies in the

payment and cards sector across

independent product testing,

development and implementation

Testing automation toolData Synchronization

GUI 1.A.

Uploaded

files

Test

data

Submit

expected

output

Submit for testing /

get actual output

Extract

actual

output

Submit for

execution

Generate

actual output

Store in

database

Compare expected & actual output

to generate test results

Submit expected & actual output

Generates

input data

1.B. Reference data

from payment engine

1. Uploader

7.

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lato

r /

ad

ap

ters

3. Test data generator

9. Actual output

10. Report generator

A. Template

repository

11. Test

results

B. Business

rules

C. Scenario

6. Tool DB

Payment

engine DB

4. Input

data

5. Expected

output

8. Bank

payment

hub /

processing

engine

2. Tool DB

* McKinsey on Payments, Building a successful enterprise payments organization” Philip Bruno and Dan Ewing, September 2011

** Results based on March, 2013 internal Dell testing