Bank of Hawaii and Paragon Application Systems recently completed stress testing and regressing tesing of Bank of Hawaii's systems using Paragon FASTress.
"Bank of Hawaii was porting its S2 Open2 host application so it ran as duplicate nodes across multiple servers," said Bob Collins, Paragon's vice president of technology and services, in a news release. "During testing, we wanted to be able to disable and re-enable servers and ensure the load would be redistributed smoothly to nodes on other servers."
To set up performance testing, Collins built FASTress agents to represent all of Bank of Hawaii's network endpoints, including the bank's ATM types and various network interfaces. Collins also worked with the bank to create a transaction mix that replicated what it typically experienced on its production system. And Collins produced test scripts using FASTest for all of Bank of Hawaii's acquirers and issuers for later regression testing.
The anticipated benefits of the new multinode configuration were balanced transaction loads, improved response time, and uninterrupted service.
