The regulations contained in Basel II substantially modified risk management. Banks become responsible for developing an integral process of risk management, depending on their risk profile, which includes stress tests among the analysis tools. The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic has aligned to the new paradigm the banking regulation from Argentina, and began to require entities to carry out stress tests. Consequently, a problem to be solved is how to achieve a convenient modeling of the scenarios, adopting a methodology that is consistent in macroeconomic terms to perform the exercise of stress tests.In this paper we present the main stages of a stress testing process: the generation of the macroeconomic model, the generation ...