Automatic traffic generation for a faring system

摘要

A faring system (10) includes a production facility (12) including at least one fare shopping server (14), a staging facility (16) including at least one fare shopping server (18), and an entry point (20) for conducting bi-directional communications with customers. The staging facility further includes a database (26) storing transformation rules and a traffic generation subsystem (24) configured to receive a transaction via the entry point from a customer, to determine if the received request is one suitable for use in generating simulation data for the fare shopping server of the staging system and, if so, to modify the received transaction in accordance with at least one rule retrieved from the database to create at least one modified transaction, and to send the at least one modified transaction to the fare shopping server of the staging facility for processing. The fare shopping server of the staging facility processes the modified transaction for evaluating a potential new or modified functionality of the faring system.