[Quickfix-developers] acceptance test

[Clark S. <Cla...@ac...>]

I am having a hard time relating this document:
http://fixprotocol.org/documents/614/FIX_TestCase_SessionLevel20010710.doc

to the acceptance test in quickfix/test/definitions/server/fix??

For example in
quickfix/test/definitions/server/fix42/8_OnlyAdminMessages.def ,  several
TestRequest are sent, several heartbeats are expected, then a resend request
is sent.  The client expects the server to skip all the heartbeats and send
a SequenceReset with GapFill=Y,  for the entire range of messages.

While this seems like very efficient behavior, I can not find anything in
the document of test cases, with this test, nor can I find this in the FIX
Specs.  The FIX specs seem to leave it to the discretion of the responder,
when to resend messages, and when to send a SequenceReset, GapFill=Y,
message.

It appears that the acceptance test, aren't always testing the standard, so
much as a reasonable expectation of what the server should do.

Am I missing something?

Best Regards,

Clark