Test trading

After you set up a community, you are ready to add trading partners and begin trading. It is a good practice to test a trading configuration before using it in a production environment.

You can perform test trading using the QuickStart partner, which is a file you can download from Axway Sphere. You can perform test trading with a trading partner, or if you have a support contract, with the Axway QS test server.

The Axway QS test server provides you with a correctly configured trading partner. By using it you can validate your community and communications against a thoroughly tested system.

Follow the instructions below to obtain and use the Quickstart partner file. You must have permission to log on to Activator and to create a new partner.

Log in to Sphere at support.axway.com.
Search for quickstart or utility and download the Interchange_5.12.0_Utility*.zip file. Note that the asterisk represents the build number of the file.
Extract the XML file and place it on your local system.
Through the Activator UI, create a new partner and upload the XML file.

The following procedure explains how to configure Activator to exchange test documents with Axway. To trade with a partner, see Configure for test trading.

To trade with the Axway test server:

Import the QS partner to your Activator test environment.
Create a community.
Export your community profile as a partner profile.
Zip the profile to protect it.
Open a support case with Axway, attaching the exported partner profile and requesting that the zipped partner profile be imported into QS.

QS test server limitations:

You are not permitted to do stress testing, or to send extremely large files (multi-Gigabyte), except on a pre-arranged basis.