Get the Ignition FIX Testing and Certification desktop application

In today's fast markets, FIX applications are the lifeblood of your business. And application failures put your business outcomes at risk.

FIX Flyer Ignition allows your IT organization to catch defects and correct them earlier in the application lifecycle so you can hit the go live button with confidence and reduce costs associated with the development and deployment of FIX protocol-based systems.

Some of the largest institutions in the world rely on Ignition for comprehensive FIX application testing.

• Point and click desktop tool makes it easy to create, manage and run hundreds of test cases
• Out-of-the-box with testing scenarios available such as the FIX Protocol State Matrix Appendix
• Control every aspect of the message and session to test even the most complex real-world market events
• No programming or scripting language experience required, even for the most complex scenarios
• Exchange and broker simulation capabilities through data- and event-driven simulation
• Replay log files to determine sources of real world production glitches

“Our clients demand a mission-critical experience from us so our FIX certification process requires a sophisticated testing suite.”
— Tom Driscoll, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Charles River Development

Flexibility is the primary reason FIX has widespread adoption but managing those disparate interpretations is difficult without the right tools. Ignition greatly reduces the risk and time that is needed to certify and test counterparties’ FIX based connections, trading systems, and algorithms. Ignition brings your system to market quickly and safely.

Validate your Entire Infrastructure

• Bring efficiency and conformity to enterprise-wide trading operations
• Communicates directly with your FIX engine to test message delivery, reception and processing
• Create error scenarios such as missing fields and malformed messages
• Load megabytes of FIX log files and instantly replay for regression testing
• Test and certify at rates of thousands of messages per second for real world throughput stress scenarios

Simulate your Counterparties

• Receives messages from your FIX infrastructure and tests them against your counterparty’s trade communication methods, responding with the necessary message sequence for trade efficiency
• Achieve ongoing and consistent validation and certification with counterparties
• Rapidly expand trade connectivity through easy addition of trading partners via the FIX protocol, as well as other industry standard protocols
• Eliminate time-consuming manual testing practices dependant on your counterparties or recurring testing fees
• Certify and test any FIX engine. Tested against every major FIX engine on the market, Ignition can assure compliance with your entire community

Desktop Application

• Complete end-to-end testing of your entire electronic trading system
• Easy to use GUI with no programming or scripting required. Even FIX newbies can be productive in minutes
• Visually design trade workflow test case development with easily understood, rules-based message validation
• Supports all versions of FIX with built-in flows for pre-trade, trade and post trade messaging
• Manage and re-use test cases that comprise trade workflow
• Written in Java for performance and cross platform support
• Custom integration into your trading environment using our libraries so you can further automate your systems