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Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
n d
22 Jun 2009 2:32PM ET Hi - Thanks for your reply. I was referring mainly to testing sell-side applications of FIX. By functional testing I meant testing of specific business logic in application-level tags as opposed to 'acceptance' or FIX-compliance testing.
A very simple example would be: After partially executing 25m out of the total 100m available, does the Execution Report (35=8) have the correct 'size left'? Did the 'size left' adhere to the trade stipulation I had specified?
I understand the restrictions of this forum and for the same reason I was most interested in knowing how sell-side implementations have managed their testing efforts. Some personal experiences / testing-practices recommendations / lessons-learnt / FIX-testing-case-studies would be great.
Thanks to all those who took time to reply so far.
> When you say functional - what do you actually mean? And from which side
> - buy-side or sell side.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> John
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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:
> >
> > "How do you do your functional testing? Off-the-shelf tools? Custom
> > built tools? Simpel scripts?"
> >
> > Thanks for your time!
Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
n d 22 Jun 2009 2:32PM ET
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