Re: [Quickfix-users] Test Server

[Joachim W. <joa...@ia...>]

Am 17.03.2011 08:52, schrieb asif saeed:
> I am a newbie to FIX. I am supposed to develop a FIX client for
> connectivity to a FIX-4.2 based exchange. To develop and ***test*** my
> code, I need a FIX-4.2 test exchange; Is there any such FIX-4.2 test
> exchange server available? If an exchange say that it is FIX-4.2
> compliant then can we safely write a FIX-4.2 client for them? Or are
> there any incompatibility implications even if they are FIX-4.2
> compliant? I just want to be able to actually **test** my FIX-4.2 client
> right from day one.
>
> Thank you very much in advance / Asif

You can use the ordermatch example for a (very simple) test market.

Otherwise, the best (and only valid) test environment are the simulation 
envrionments of the facility you want to trade at: not all FIX are 
behaving the same, as you already supposed. Nearly every market has 
modification/extensions in place.

  Joachim