Allied Testing has launched the next generation of their product – BEST 2.0 (Back-End System Tester) – Performance Testing and Test Automation platform targeted at complex distributed server back-ends.

BEST - a platform for development of Test Harnesses around distributed back-ends - gives the ability to emulate many different client and server connections from a single script. Launched in 2006 and aimed at the financial sector, BEST has been in a growing demand by leading banking and investment organizations.

BEST allows you to emulate activity outside the infrastructure under test. The platform is able to emulate servers inside or outside of the distributed back-end, create large numbers of virtual users and connect them to multiple servers, manipulate servers under test, and monitor the events inside the back-end. Development of test scripts, test frameworks, server/client emulators, and test reports are implemented in a powerful integrated development environment - BEST Studio application.

Specifically designed frameworks such as Order Management framework, Market Data Framework, Environment Support Framework, Web Framework and many more allow for efficient development of test scenarios for both performance and functional testing and significant improvement of QA processes. It guarantees high quality systems and minimizes a company’s production issue losses.

BEST 2.0 comes with the following new features:

• Stand alone and scriptable server emulators. The emulators allow you to control market data and trading interfaces from a single script.
• "Network pump" scripts. These scripts allow you to prerecord message flows (orders, market data updates, etc) with highest rates. The addition of these scripts gives an ability to emulate a significant load on the server environment ensuring the performance and capacity of the environment under test. Actual message flows can be fine tuned to emulate different load shapes.
• Powerful reporting module. Users can develop customized reports to help present and analyze the results of functional and performance testing specific to the tests and the testing environment.
• Support for latest trading/financial protocols.

"We continue working towards our goal of providing the best professional Performance Testing/Test automation platform." - Says Alexey Zverev, Senior R&D Manager – "We want to help test automation specialists and developers to significantly improve their work and create more flexible test frameworks tailored to their needs at much earlier stages."

"BEST has allowed us to deliver state of the art performance test harnesses from scratch in just a few months, and provide our clients with a stable test infrastructure required to optimize their systems in order to meet ever-increasing growth requirements." - Says Iosif Itkin, Project Director of Allied Testing Consulting Services.

If you are interesting in more information about BEST product please visit a BEST product page or contact support@alliedtesting.com.