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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. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
