Introduction to Acquirer Systems. WE PROVIDE AUTOMATED TESTING SOLUTIONS FOR THE GLOBAL PAYMENTS INDUSTRY TO HELP YOU GET HIGHER QUALITY PRODUCTS TO MARKET FASTER.
Acquirer Systems provides test and validation solutions for the payments industry. Our software allows issuers and acquirers get higher quality products to the market faster, reducing cost and improving competitiveness in a complex and changing marketplace. The company has a global reputation for excellence with Bank Card Issuers, Merchant Acquirers, Payments Processors, and Terminal Vendors. We count blue-chip institutions such as Bank of America, Bank of Ireland, First Data, SwissCard, and Standard Bank of South Africa, amongst a growing customer base. We have 80+ installations across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Acquirer Systems was founded in 1997, is privately held, and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
How do Dutch consumers pay in 2020 - trends and scenariosInnopay
Overview of how the Dutch consumers pay in 2013 and the nine trends that are most likely to change this behavior; resulting in four consumer payment scenarios for 2020
Digital transformation of card payments - About SwissWallet Netcetera
At ProfitCard 2016 on April 14 and 15, 2016 in Wiesbaden, Germany, the payment expert, Andrej Vckovski, Netcetera’s CEO, hold a presentation about the digital transformation of card payments. The differences between online, mobile contactless and in-app payment are being clarified by explaining SwissWallet.
Presentation at the Netcetera Innovation Summit 2015, held by Ronnie Brunner, Head of Products, and Dr. Thomas Fromherz, Head of Payment & Card Services, at Netcetera.
Presentation on payment reform and changing models given at 2016 Ziegler National Senior Living CFO Workshop, April 6-8, 2016 at The Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
Netcetera Innovation Summit 2016: The Past 12 Months - What's New & ExcitingNetcetera
In 2016 Netcetera celebrates its 20th anniversary. The company's Head of Payment & Card Services, Thomas Fromherz, held a presentation at Netcetera Innovation Summit 2016 on September 22-23, 2016, in Munich, Germany, covering Netcetera's mobile, contact-less payment solutions SwissWallet, looking back at the last 12 months and casting a glance into the future.
Acquirer Systems provides test and validation solutions for the payments industry. Our software allows issuers and acquirers get higher quality products to the market faster, reducing cost and improving competitiveness in a complex and changing marketplace. The company has a global reputation for excellence with Bank Card Issuers, Merchant Acquirers, Payments Processors, and Terminal Vendors. We count blue-chip institutions such as Bank of America, Bank of Ireland, First Data, SwissCard, and Standard Bank of South Africa, amongst a growing customer base. We have 80+ installations across the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Acquirer Systems was founded in 1997, is privately held, and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
How do Dutch consumers pay in 2020 - trends and scenariosInnopay
Overview of how the Dutch consumers pay in 2013 and the nine trends that are most likely to change this behavior; resulting in four consumer payment scenarios for 2020
Digital transformation of card payments - About SwissWallet Netcetera
At ProfitCard 2016 on April 14 and 15, 2016 in Wiesbaden, Germany, the payment expert, Andrej Vckovski, Netcetera’s CEO, hold a presentation about the digital transformation of card payments. The differences between online, mobile contactless and in-app payment are being clarified by explaining SwissWallet.
Presentation at the Netcetera Innovation Summit 2015, held by Ronnie Brunner, Head of Products, and Dr. Thomas Fromherz, Head of Payment & Card Services, at Netcetera.
Presentation on payment reform and changing models given at 2016 Ziegler National Senior Living CFO Workshop, April 6-8, 2016 at The Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
Netcetera Innovation Summit 2016: The Past 12 Months - What's New & ExcitingNetcetera
In 2016 Netcetera celebrates its 20th anniversary. The company's Head of Payment & Card Services, Thomas Fromherz, held a presentation at Netcetera Innovation Summit 2016 on September 22-23, 2016, in Munich, Germany, covering Netcetera's mobile, contact-less payment solutions SwissWallet, looking back at the last 12 months and casting a glance into the future.
SwissWallet - Die digitale Währung heisst Vertrauen Netcetera
Über den SwissWallet Ansatz, mehr Schweizer Autonomie im Schweizer Payment-Markt, den
Wert von internationalen Kartennetzwerken, über das SwissWallet Geschäftsmodell sowie ein Blick in die Zukunft der digitalen Kartenzahlung.
The document provides a simple overview of all players in the Swiss FinteCH ecosystem, including startups, financial services firms, investors, associations, media, and so on.
Die Herausforderungen in der Payment-IndustrieNetcetera
Die Ehre die Eröffnungsrede am Swiss Payment Forum 2016 ging diesmal an Reto Gross, unser Director Payment & Card Services. Er würdigte die bisherige und bevorstehende Entwicklung im Payment-Bereich kritisch und ganzheitlich. In diesen unruhigen und spannenden Zeiten steht diese Industrie vor etlichen Herausforderungen. Reto Gross analysiert in seinem Vortrag, was die Auswirkungen auf das Innovationsvorhaben der Marktteilnehmer sind und wer wie dazu beitragen kann, dass die richtigen Impulse gesetzt werden.
The Credit Card Product Update slide deck examines new product releases from 11 credit card carriers in the Credit Card Monitor coverage group over the course of 2016. Inside, we highlight basic fee information, rewards criteria and specific standout features unique to each card and include a chart showing what firms feature which digital payment services for their product offerings.
Keys to m-payment strategy that reduces risks and improves efficiencyBMI Healthcare
Are you applying a systematic approach that provides sufficient test coverage of devices, operating systems and network operators? Our whitepaper discusses quality driven strategies that will enable you to launch apps quickly, within budget and time.
Automating End-to-End Business Scenario TestingTechWell
Allstate Insurance had a problem. While thoroughly testing each of their more than thirty business systems, they were still failing to provide good service to their clients, agents, and internal customers. The reason was simple. Implementing end-to-end business processes requires more than just running data through a set of separate systems. While focusing on automating unit, integration, and system testing, they had failed to consider the need for system-to-system integration tests―tests that would verify that their business systems passed data correctly, met interface expectations, and synchronized properly. Monika Mehrotra and Sandra Alequin describe how Allstate, with the assistance of Infosys, supplemented their existing test suites with a set of end-to-end tests that provided deeper test coverage, demonstrating proper system operation from beginning to end. In addition, Allstate implemented a test environment that more closely resembled their production environment, discovering defects that had previously escaped into daily operation. Learn the importance of end-to-end, not just piecemeal testing.
What’s happening in Banking World?
The entire landscape is very competitive and banks today are evolving. Banks are relying more and more on technology to reach customers and deliver services in short span of time. It is becoming important for them to be consistent and deliver quality customer services using technology to reach, expand and deliver faster and better services.
Adding additional services and transactions via technology, integrating with legacy systems and delivering using new delivery methods are becoming a norm. The banking industry is embracing newer technology to grow their market share. With technology, banks today are global players and no more local.
Challenges
Challenges in the multiple industries are similar but in Banking, there are specific challenges, which makes it unique, which are
• Frequently changing market and regulatory requirements
• High data confidentiality requirements
• Complex system landscapes including legacy systems
• Newer technologies such as mobile and web services
• Enterprise banking integration – Core banking, Corporate Banking and Retail Banking
• Application performance – Internal and External
Approaches to meet the challenges
It is very important that banks and financial establishments conduct regression tests over the entire application lifecycle for every release and also maintain test suites for each release using effective version control system linked to requirements, test cases, test scenarios and realistic test data. Based on this, an effective testing approach can be taken individually or by combination of the following to achieve the desired results:
• Risk-based testing
• Automation - Legacy, Web, Mobile
• Test data management
• Compliance / Statutory testing
• Performance and Capacity engineering
• Off-shoring
What Makes Quality Assurance Fundamental for Banking Frameworks.pdfMaveric Systems
Today technology is continuously tested throughout the course of the development process. From a collection of system development techniques, products and services are tailored to the consumer’s needs. It becomes crucial to understand that quality engineering is a discipline to unite developers and testers.
Success Story - End to End Testing of Network Management SoftwareIndium Software
Indium’s test approach is to adopt Agile
Methodology, conduct functional and
regression test automation for new features
within the sprint
Actively participate in Scrum Meetings by
keeping in mind one thing, which is test
automation.
Use of Silk Test - Test Automation tool to test
the new features against a huge data set
Ensure that there is no lapse in security
measures
Improve test compliance coverage by
identifying and using more devices
End to End Test of Network Management Software Indium Software
Test cycle time was reduced by 40% | Quick Ramp-up of testing devices from 12 to 100
Web-based network management & control application that facilitates integration of network controller with various access points connected across the floor/ building. It enables connection of various wireless devices such as laptops, mobiles and tablets to the configured access points for seamless internet connectivity. Its mobile portal enables direct
configuration, test, deployment, tracking update and it also supports tailored services to all user segments. The application has cloud-based architecture, so it integrates with enterprise AAA, VPN and other systems and extends support to new network and device technologies as they emerge.
SwissWallet - Die digitale Währung heisst Vertrauen Netcetera
Über den SwissWallet Ansatz, mehr Schweizer Autonomie im Schweizer Payment-Markt, den
Wert von internationalen Kartennetzwerken, über das SwissWallet Geschäftsmodell sowie ein Blick in die Zukunft der digitalen Kartenzahlung.
The document provides a simple overview of all players in the Swiss FinteCH ecosystem, including startups, financial services firms, investors, associations, media, and so on.
Die Herausforderungen in der Payment-IndustrieNetcetera
Die Ehre die Eröffnungsrede am Swiss Payment Forum 2016 ging diesmal an Reto Gross, unser Director Payment & Card Services. Er würdigte die bisherige und bevorstehende Entwicklung im Payment-Bereich kritisch und ganzheitlich. In diesen unruhigen und spannenden Zeiten steht diese Industrie vor etlichen Herausforderungen. Reto Gross analysiert in seinem Vortrag, was die Auswirkungen auf das Innovationsvorhaben der Marktteilnehmer sind und wer wie dazu beitragen kann, dass die richtigen Impulse gesetzt werden.
The Credit Card Product Update slide deck examines new product releases from 11 credit card carriers in the Credit Card Monitor coverage group over the course of 2016. Inside, we highlight basic fee information, rewards criteria and specific standout features unique to each card and include a chart showing what firms feature which digital payment services for their product offerings.
Keys to m-payment strategy that reduces risks and improves efficiencyBMI Healthcare
Are you applying a systematic approach that provides sufficient test coverage of devices, operating systems and network operators? Our whitepaper discusses quality driven strategies that will enable you to launch apps quickly, within budget and time.
Automating End-to-End Business Scenario TestingTechWell
Allstate Insurance had a problem. While thoroughly testing each of their more than thirty business systems, they were still failing to provide good service to their clients, agents, and internal customers. The reason was simple. Implementing end-to-end business processes requires more than just running data through a set of separate systems. While focusing on automating unit, integration, and system testing, they had failed to consider the need for system-to-system integration tests―tests that would verify that their business systems passed data correctly, met interface expectations, and synchronized properly. Monika Mehrotra and Sandra Alequin describe how Allstate, with the assistance of Infosys, supplemented their existing test suites with a set of end-to-end tests that provided deeper test coverage, demonstrating proper system operation from beginning to end. In addition, Allstate implemented a test environment that more closely resembled their production environment, discovering defects that had previously escaped into daily operation. Learn the importance of end-to-end, not just piecemeal testing.
What’s happening in Banking World?
The entire landscape is very competitive and banks today are evolving. Banks are relying more and more on technology to reach customers and deliver services in short span of time. It is becoming important for them to be consistent and deliver quality customer services using technology to reach, expand and deliver faster and better services.
Adding additional services and transactions via technology, integrating with legacy systems and delivering using new delivery methods are becoming a norm. The banking industry is embracing newer technology to grow their market share. With technology, banks today are global players and no more local.
Challenges
Challenges in the multiple industries are similar but in Banking, there are specific challenges, which makes it unique, which are
• Frequently changing market and regulatory requirements
• High data confidentiality requirements
• Complex system landscapes including legacy systems
• Newer technologies such as mobile and web services
• Enterprise banking integration – Core banking, Corporate Banking and Retail Banking
• Application performance – Internal and External
Approaches to meet the challenges
It is very important that banks and financial establishments conduct regression tests over the entire application lifecycle for every release and also maintain test suites for each release using effective version control system linked to requirements, test cases, test scenarios and realistic test data. Based on this, an effective testing approach can be taken individually or by combination of the following to achieve the desired results:
• Risk-based testing
• Automation - Legacy, Web, Mobile
• Test data management
• Compliance / Statutory testing
• Performance and Capacity engineering
• Off-shoring
What Makes Quality Assurance Fundamental for Banking Frameworks.pdfMaveric Systems
Today technology is continuously tested throughout the course of the development process. From a collection of system development techniques, products and services are tailored to the consumer’s needs. It becomes crucial to understand that quality engineering is a discipline to unite developers and testers.
Success Story - End to End Testing of Network Management SoftwareIndium Software
Indium’s test approach is to adopt Agile
Methodology, conduct functional and
regression test automation for new features
within the sprint
Actively participate in Scrum Meetings by
keeping in mind one thing, which is test
automation.
Use of Silk Test - Test Automation tool to test
the new features against a huge data set
Ensure that there is no lapse in security
measures
Improve test compliance coverage by
identifying and using more devices
End to End Test of Network Management Software Indium Software
Test cycle time was reduced by 40% | Quick Ramp-up of testing devices from 12 to 100
Web-based network management & control application that facilitates integration of network controller with various access points connected across the floor/ building. It enables connection of various wireless devices such as laptops, mobiles and tablets to the configured access points for seamless internet connectivity. Its mobile portal enables direct
configuration, test, deployment, tracking update and it also supports tailored services to all user segments. The application has cloud-based architecture, so it integrates with enterprise AAA, VPN and other systems and extends support to new network and device technologies as they emerge.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
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Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
Explore more about Albumentations and join the community at:
GitHub: https://github.com/albumentations-team/albumentations
Website: https://albumentations.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/100504475
Twitter: https://x.com/albumentations
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Building RAG with self-deployed Milvus vector database and Snowpark Container...Zilliz
This talk will give hands-on advice on building RAG applications with an open-source Milvus database deployed as a docker container. We will also introduce the integration of Milvus with Snowpark Container Services.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
2. Introducing Acquirer Systems
Acquirer Systems is a global leader in test and validation solutions for
complex payment environments.
We help you to improve your competitiveness and the efficiency of your whole
product lifecycle through efficient automated testing.
With Acquirer Systems you can manage the complexities of card scheme compliance, platform
updates, new product launches, EMV chip and NFC contactless deployments, and switch
migration.
Trusted by US Firms Trusted around the world Certified and Confirmed by
+ many more
3. Market background
1. 2.
Deregulation = Global
More competition competitiveness
& New & demand for
entrants customers
5.
Pressure 3.
on Payment Product
Transitioning More Channels
Delivery with more
End-of-life
platforms Transaction
4. Types
EMV + NFC = (service)
More card
products
& types
4. The Evolution of Card Payments
1. More card products
More diverse payments topography = More card projects, more
certifications, more interoperability testing
Phone-based payments
2. Increasing pressure on card and payment
infrastructure management and test capability
New Entrants
3. The winners look to their internal operations to yield
higher efficiencies, enhanced levels of innovation,
product performance and faster time to market
Contactless
EMV / Smart Cards
Credit cards invented Debit cards invented
1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
5. Transitioning:
Challenges of moving to new payments environment
Discontinued Platforms:
StandardCustomers sunset by Vendors:
Your platforms being have so many choices…
+ More payment methods
NFC, EMV, mPayments, mWallets, closed & open loop cards, virtual payments,
products from
Legacy Systems :
+ More product sources
In house Platforms reaching end of life.
banks and new entrants – tesco, M&S, virgin money, paypal, google
+ More Payment channels
ATM, PoS, Mobile, Internet, Contact, Contactless
6. Will your Payment Environment keep
your business competitive?
The current generation of switches is being
sunset by vendors
In-house platforms reaching end of life and are
unable to support new market dynamics
How can you drive product innovation, keep your
customers happy, reduce costs, and deliver growth?
7. Market Dynamics
Business Needs
1. Get more product to market faster
2. Fast and cost-effective updates, compliance and certifications
3. Improve service experience (assure interoperability & limit in-field failure)
4. Pressure on margins; Reduce churn
5. Deliver more projects and faster
6. Mitigate business risk in the payment card space
New Testing Requirements Drive
1.Improved, more cost-effective testing processes
2.Ability to simulate an end-to-end payments environment and all infield scenarios
3.Manage the complexity of environmental variations
4.Identify & resolve issues faster
5.Integrate testing into product lifecycle to speed up and improve quality of delivery
9. How we help you
1. Improve Your Competitiveness
1.
By helping you to get more and better quality product to the market faster. We deliver
the most comprehensive testing capability with the industry’s fastest test simulation
platform across your entire product lifecycle.
2. Reduce Your Cost and Risk
2.
With an automated test platform that simulates the whole payment chain you can
minimize infield failures and interoperability issues, and lower your project delivery
costs
3.
3. Increase your efficiency in New Product Delivery
Our real time-test environment helps you to solve product issues quicker, shortening your
project delivery timelines and increasing the quality and number of project completions.
By eliminating the need for test scripts, you can redeploy expensive development
resources more efficiently.
10. What we do
We provide a test and validation platform that simulates a complete real-time end-
to-end payment environment allowing Issuers and Acquirers to independently
simulate a full range of transactions and network scenarios.
Features of ASTREX Benefits of ASTREX
Get more product to A Real-time Collaborative Test Environment helps to
market faster and more create a test-driven Product Development process for agile
accurately development
Automated, transaction-based testing increases
Test & certify more
project efficiency and cuts regression cycle times and
products more cost
effectively and efficiently resource overheads
End-to-end testing produces higher quality product
Features of ASTREX
Reduce instances of
End-to-end network simulation and higher quality
infield failure and
interoperability issues testing ensures early identification of interoperability issues
11. The solutions we deliver
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Certification Product Improve your
EMV Switch
& Lifecycle test
migration migration
Compliance Management efficiency
Manage the Deliver assured Ensure faster 1- Increase the speed Improve the
complexities of migration from pass certification and efficiency of quality of your
migration and on- evaluation to go- with better test new product products through
going compliance live using a coverage and delivery in your optimum test
with the EMV simulated end-to- efficient testing for card business as coverage and
standard while end payments more effective pre- the payments automated
improving the environment with a certification so you environment transaction-based
efficiency of on- transaction-based don’t waste time increases in testing to deliver a
going testing in an test capability built and money on complexity by better experience
EMV environment on a switch certification cycles. making testing to a more
architecture available through discerning
Reduce the cost of all points of your customer.
maintaining product
Get to the market
compliance. development
faster at a lower
cost.
12. Acquirer Systems
Selected Clients
Your Global Testing Partner
Acquirer Systems has a global reputation for excellence with Bank Card
Issuers and Merchant Acquirers, Payments Processors, and Terminal
Vendors.
More than 100 installations across the United States, Europe, the Middle
East, Africa and Asia.
Blue-chip customers such as Elavon, Bank of America, First Data, SwissCard,
and Standard Bank of South Africa.
Our Background
We are a trusted partner to our customers providing test platforms and
global payments expertise to improve their product delivery and
payments operations.
Founded in 1997, privately held, with offices in the North Carolina
and headquartered in Dublin, Ireland
Editor's Notes
Software company specialising in products for the payment card industry ~Specifically, testing and certification test tools
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