Open Source FIX Client Simulator

Question

I want test a FIX gateway for our company and was wondering if anything in opensource already exists that I can use or perhaps leverage to complete this task.

I am currently looking at QuickFix but I am not sure if it has a client that can be use against any standard FIX gateway.

Also links to any learning material that exist on this topic would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

There is an alternative GUI tool that allows to simulate both client and server. It is called MINI FIX. One can construct messages as he/she sees or use code to talk to it and get respective response. The only downside is that it is Windows only.

Answer 2

QuickFIX can be used to send standard-compliant messages (with different safety-levels//use strong safety:-) to FIX servers/gateways.

quickfix has nice sample code on its site: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/sending_messages.html