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Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
John Greenan / http://www.alignment-systems.com
22 Jun 2009 7:38AM ET When you say functional - what do you actually mean? And from which side - buy-side or sell side.
Typically a buy-side faces more issues around OMS functionality rather than FIX specifics. A sell side will want to ensure that there are no regressions between software upgrades so that buy-sides do not have to recertify.
There are a number of firms that offer tools - some with colourful names - some of which are very good. As Jim rightly states, this is not the forum for praise or naming and shaming.
In some cases I have seen firms build up massive libraries of Winrunner scripts to automate testing. Then the OMS vendor changes a GUI widget and it all breaks. Then you have two problems to solve and not one. I have also seen consulting firms that build a specific tool for a client and then try and sell that tool as a generic solution.
This is a very big subject - narrow the scope of your question and explain your problem and I am sure that many folks will be able to assist or offer experience.
John
> 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)
John Greenan / http://www.alignment-systems.com 22 Jun 2009 7:38AM ET
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