Canadian exchange chooses Inceptrum for automated testing

The Toronto-based Canadian Securities Exchange will use FIX Testbench, a product developed by Canadian FIX solutions provider Inceptrum, to test its trading infrastructure. The testbench is a solution for automated functional, performance, and stress testing. David Timpany, Vice President, Technology & Operations, CSE said that the exchange chose Inceptrum because it had provided flexible and cost effective solutions in the past. “The recent release of their high capacity automated test platform, FIX Testbench, provides us with the next step in our strategy to fully automate our regression testing that complements other initiatives at the CSE, focused on cost and operational efficiencies and increased quality assurance,” Timpany said. The CSE’s collaboration with Inceptrum started in 2012 when it commissioned the vendor to provide a FIX protocol router to provide redundancy to messaging loads in order to increase operational resiliency. The FIX Testbench is the result of Inceptrum building on their internally developed testbench to provide the large-scale regression testing required by the CSE. It will also be used for stress testing and latency monitoring. The Testbench is designed to be integrated in a continuous delivery workflow and provides test creation, execution and data functionalities.