Re: CIMD2-simulator

Arne K. Haaje wrote:

>søndag 30. januar 2005, 18:47, skrev Matti Ärmänen:
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>>Hello!
>>There is a possibility to get students of Helsinki University of
>>Technoloy (Telecommunications software laboratory) to make kannel
>>extensions/enhancements as their thesis work. Initially I have defined
>>"CIMD2 - http converter" to be used in CIMD2 testing. It should convert
>>CIMD2 message sending requests to http-calls and vice versa.
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>>Do you have any suggestions for the work?
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>>Are there any other ideas what could be done?
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>I may be misunderstanding you, but is this not how Kannel behave today? For a 
>connection to a SMSC you can use CIMD2.
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>You set up a sms-service to route messages to an application using http, and 
>you send to kannel using the sendsms interface with http.
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Sorry, the description was not clear enough. The purpose of this 
software is to simulate SMSC. It can be used in testing of the kannel 
CIMD2 interface. In real life it is difficult to cause various 
SMSC-error situations that kannel and the services using kannel have to 
deal with. Especially it is useful in testing with high volumes.
I have developed an end-user simulator that has http-interface and it 
replies to text messages based on the rules in database. It is mainly 
targeted to services that originate dialoques to mobile phone users. It 
is used in automating volume and regression testing, so that no real 
phones are needed. It is used eg. in testing the Finnair SMS check-in 
service, where passenger gets SMS check-in request from the back-end 
system before the flight.
The intention is to hook this new CIMD2-simulator between the 
end-user-simulator and kannel to get the CIMD2-interface to the testing 
path.

Regards, Matti