White papers

Phil Penhaligan, Head of Equity Product Technology (LSE and Turquoise), LSEG

1. Structure of Risk Management Systems
2. Business Logic Verification
3. End-to-End Testing & Automation
4. A Typical Automated Test
5. Sanity Checks
6. Collaboration with Business Users

This document sets out the principles to be considered when the performance of a trading system is tested.

Test automation usually reduces the overall testing effort by decreasing the time which QA analysts have to spend on repeatable tasks. Quite often automation also adds more depth to the testing process without reducing the actual effort.