[Quickfix-developers] Quickfix acceptance tests.

[Timothy Y. <ty...@pa...>]

The automated acceptance tests for quickfix are impressive but have some
very significant holes.

For example, the tests surrounding processing of resend requests do not
cover the most common resend scenario, namely loss of synchronization after
an unexpected loss of the TCP connection.   All the acceptance tests assume
that sequence numbers are set to 1 at every logon.  However, it is usually
at logon that the missing messages are detected.

One shouldn't, therefore, shouldn't get too complacent about the robustness
of the quickfix session level code, especially when it is talking to a buggy
peer fix app (e.g. one that often crashes), or over an unreliable network
connection.

Tim Yates
Lead Developer 
Patsystems (US) LLC 
141 West Jackson Boulevard
Chicago 60604, USA 
Tel +1 (312) 542-1336 
www.patsystems.com 


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