A project may require many different types of test messages for testing and many organizations still create these test messages in a manual or semi-automated way. Apart from the mind- numbingly boring work involved, the potential for errors is enormous while the time and cost taken to create these test messages is huge. Finally getting sufficient edge conditions in the data is hard to control with manually created messages.
Ostia’s Portus technology supports the generation of various different types of messages on demand. This will do the following:
Apart from custom message formats specific to a given installation, Portus also supports standard message formats such as SWIFT and EDIFACT. The following diagram illustrates the process for creating test messages on demand.