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Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
Jim Northey / The LaSalle Technology Group <>
18 Jun 2009 10:02PM ET There are several vendors that provided automated FIX testing tools. It is not appropriate in this forum to list specific tools - but you can check the vendors page or post a question on specific tools to the products forum. Tools range from simple spreadsheet to FIX integration products all the way up to very high end tools with rich GUI applications and languages for fully automating testing scenarios.
> Being in on the "ground floor" of QuickFIX we naturally leveraged and
> enhanced the QuickFIX acceptance framework. Now after several years and
> many, many projects have the ability to automate repeatable functional
> testing of entire trading platforms including market-data driven
> applications. It is basically, FIX in expected FIX out (the i an e). We
> have also extended the frame work to non-fix protocols. So our
> experience is that the QuickFIX acceptance test runner is a good
> starting point for creating a full functional testing framework for FIX
> enabled applications.
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> However as you mentioned that task of creating the tests as they are
> is laborious and error prone (believe me I've written so many of these
> tests I know). We have made a few attempts at creating a higher level
> language to create the tests but thus far those attempts have fallen
> short. We currently have an internal project to use the QuickFIX data
> dictionary to drive a UI. So we too are interested in the experience
> of others. Jim
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> > Hi:
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> > We're exploring ways to automate our function testing in FIX. So I
> > thought I could borrow from this forum's collective intelligence:
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> > "How do you do your functional testing? Off-the-shelf tools? Custom
> > built tools? Simpel scripts?"
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> > Thanks for your time!
Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
Jim Northey / The LaSalle Technology Group 18 Jun 2009 10:02PM ET
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