[Quickfix-developers] Open Source quickfix-jruby and testing tools

[Chris B. <cb...@co...>]

Hi there!

We've just released a few open source JRuby gems that may be of interest to
the QuickFIX community.

*quickfix-jruby* (https://github.com/connamara/quickfix-jruby)

Easily import QuickFIX/J into your JRuby Application.

*fix_spec* (https://github.com/connamara/fix_spec)

RSpec matchers and Cucumber step definitions for testing FIX Messages

*agent_fix* (https://github.com/connamara/agent_fix)

Agent framework designed for FIX applications

The latter two gems allow you to create rich, self describing Cucumber
scenarios. See
https://github.com/connamara/agent_fix/blob/master/features/scope.featurefor
an example of what you can do with these libraries.

Our company, Connamara Systems, is positioned in the Financial Technology
space to deliver made-to-measure software using agile and test driven
development methodologies. A lot of that software depends on the QuickFIX
apis, and we make heavy use of Cucumber for our acceptance testing.  These
libraries have been hardened by many development cycles that are now in
production.

If you use BDD and FIX, these gems could be for you. Contributions
encouraged!

-- 
Chris Busbey
Connamara Systems, LLC