Usage of Exchange Simulators and Test Exchanges as Tools for Ticker Plant Systems Testing

Usage of Exchange Simulators and Test Exchanges as Tools for Ticker Plant Systems Testing

Abstract — Ticker Plant systems are widely used in modern day trading. They allow collecting in real-time quotes from several markets, present the data in a unified format, and disseminate it electronically depending on requests and goals of external clients, traders. This paper presents a view on the possibility of using market simulators for testing such systems. A set of main functional and non-functional test scenarios required to control the quality of quote dissemination has been identified. A comparison of market simulators and real test markets has been presented. Keywords: Ticker Plant, Market Data, exchange, test market, market simulator, functional testing, non-functional testing.

Paper authors:
A.Y. Bulda, Exactpro
A.V. Zverev, Exactpro
O.A. Buyanova, Exactpro