Functional and Non-Functional Testing of Back Office Systems for an Investment Bank
Functional and Non-Functional Testing of Back Office Systems for an Investment Bank
4 Pageswww.alliedtesting.com 1 Case Study: Functional and Non-Functional Testing of Back Office Systems for an Investment Bank 1. CHALLENGE A leading investment bank saw a dramatic expansion of its trading business from large numbers of new clients trading via the bank’s DMA system. The back office and its integrated applications (see Fig. 1 below) started “drowning” under the increased flow of trades. Running business critical reports now took hours instead of minutes. The sales trading division was seriously affected by the deteriorating performance. The bank’s executive team even started putting measures in place to slow down the on-boarding of new
