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Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
Aditya Khandekar / Merrill Lynch
24 Jun 2009 7:11PM ET> . The Sell Side behavior will be somewhat specific to what you are
> connecting to. In your example, the outcome will vary between venues,
> and sometimes between vendors connecting to a same venue.
>
> There are multiple ways of performing the validation. Here are 2 I saw
> in the field: 1) Create a core scenario which holds the business logic
> (send message, receive execution report, ...) and apply different sets
> of message validation based on which Sell Side you are connecting to
> 2) Generate your scenario off production log files and replay the
> logic at will.
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
Simple scripts is what I have seen working effectively most often..
Herez my two cents on this though...
Creating "smart test cases" is far more important. I have seen instances wherein enormous effort in testing was done, it gave false sense of comfort and what had to break eventually did!
The developer/BA/tester can try and create smart cases - and then "less is the new more" in terms of testing efforts..
Re: How do you do your functional testing? (question # 2)
Aditya Khandekar / Merrill Lynch 24 Jun 2009 7:11PM ET
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