Why boxPAY Stress Tests: Security #1 Obstacle in Mobile Payment Use
According to analytics firm Compete, in a survey entitled "Obstacles to Mobile Payment Adoption", Security Concerns top the list of obstacles to widespread adoption of mobile payments at 64 percent. An underlying reason is that 46 percent of people just see their phones as devices to call or e-mail people.
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world, we all get a bit obsessed with security and how fine-tuned our system is. We need to know how our platform will deal in the busy times and in the very, very busy times. Not letting down our clients and their customers is paramount and as a result stress-testing plays a serious role in how we operate.
Stress testing is usually defined as the method by which you try and intentionally break or disrupt your system to see how it handles failure and then how it recovers afterwards. Essentially, we want our system to fail on our terms. 
So, when it does happen for real, we are ready and we know what to do.
So, how do you break your own system? You might double the number of users in a moment, close down the database or simply run too many resource-heavy tasks. Whatever it takes, we have to break it.
When doing a stress test, you are imagining a world of chaos and what might happen to your application when under its biggest strain. When you successfully brake it down, you’ll see how it attempts to recover.
For example, does it hang or give out accurate error messages?
Is the security compromised? This is the important issue for us at boxPAY. Because we focus on security as one of our core values, we have to ensure security remains our number one issue when performing a stress test.