# FIX Test Tool (Macos) **URL:** \ **Category:** General Q&A\ **Created:** [August 15, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.fixtrading.org/t/fix-test-tool-macos/17242 "2023-08-15T09:46:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hedvidaero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e274bd/32.png) [@hedvidaero](https://forum.fixtrading.org/u/hedvidaero)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.fixtrading.org/t/fix-test-tool-macos/17242/1 "2023-08-15T09:46:56Z")
Hello, I am newbie at development. Now working to implement QuickFix engine with java. For local test and show messages to clients, i found minifix test tool but it is not working at macos. Can you offer any other tools like minifix for macos ? Thanks a alot. ---
**Author:** ![cm4cdow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/47e85d/32.png) [@cm4cdow](https://forum.fixtrading.org/u/cm4cdow)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.fixtrading.org/t/fix-test-tool-macos/17242/2 "2023-08-15T11:08:59Z")
> [@hedvidaero](#): > > nt QuickFix engine with java. For local test and show messages to clients, i found minifix test tool but it is not working at macos. Can you offer any other tools like minifix for macos ? You could try the github Python and Perl versions on MacOS. I know perl works very well out of the box on both Windows and Unix. - [https://github.com/AgalmicVentures/Fixie](https://github.com/AgalmicVentures/Fixie) - [https://github.com/binary-com/perl-Protocol-FIX](https://github.com/binary-com/perl-Protocol-FIX) fwiw I use a lot of chatGPT perl scripting in parsing FIX messages. For example, try this in chatGPT. _“write a perl program to parse FIX protocol messages and output a selected list of tag numbers in csv format, taking input tags as a comma separated parameters, and input file as another parameter”_ ---
**Author:** ![christophjohn](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.fixtrading.org/christophjohn/32/689_2.png) [@christophjohn](https://forum.fixtrading.org/u/christophjohn)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.fixtrading.org/t/fix-test-tool-macos/17242/3 "2023-08-15T13:46:25Z")
There was [https://fixpusher.sourceforge.net/](https://fixpusher.sourceforge.net/) FIXPusher. Don’t know if it still works. Also QuickFIX/J has some example apps bundled: [https://github.com/quickfix-j/quickfixj/tree/master/quickfixj-examples](https://github.com/quickfix-j/quickfixj/tree/master/quickfixj-examples) ---
**Author:** ![beirtipol](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.fixtrading.org/beirtipol/32/646_2.png) [@beirtipol](https://forum.fixtrading.org/u/beirtipol)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.fixtrading.org/t/fix-test-tool-macos/17242/4 "2023-08-16T07:38:43Z")
I’ve got a project on github that’s a few years old that provides a Vaadin-based web UI (so it’ll work cross-platform) for viewing fix messages. I’ve built on this style of framework in my day job to provide other tooling like message replays etc. (I can’t post a link here but you can search GitHub for ‘repo:beirtipol/jfixtools’ ) The more recent versions of Vaadin are a lot nicer to code in and it’s really not much effort to connect the parsing logic to a DB or file log source. There’s also an experiment with using cucumber for testing FIX message creation and manipulation that may help with your local testing and dev. Hope it’s of some help to you. ---
**Author:** ![mikegatny](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex010/user_avatar/forum.fixtrading.org/mikegatny/32/34_2.png) [@mikegatny](https://forum.fixtrading.org/u/mikegatny)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://forum.fixtrading.org/t/fix-test-tool-macos/17242/5 "2023-08-16T14:05:55Z")
If BDD/cucumber testing is of interest, please see also: > **[GitHub - connamara/fix\_spec: Build and Inspection test tool for FIX Protocol...](https://github.com/connamara/fix_spec)** > > Build and Inspection test tool for FIX Protocol messages - GitHub - connamara/fix\_spec: Build and Inspection test tool for FIX Protocol messages > **[GitHub - connamara/agent\_fix: Agent framework designed for testing FIX...](https://github.com/connamara/agent_fix)** > > Agent framework designed for testing FIX Applications - GitHub - connamara/agent\_fix: Agent framework designed for testing FIX Applications