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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: > > 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! [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[email protected]] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
