Re: CIMD2-simulator

Perhaps you should look test/test_cimd2.c. It is used for testing
cimd2 code.

Aarno

On 31.1.2005, at 13:20, Matti Ärmänen wrote:

> Arne K. Haaje wrote:
>
>> søndag 30. januar 2005, 18:47, skrev Matti Ärmänen:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Do you have any suggestions for the work?
>>>
>>> Are there any other ideas what could be done?
>>>
>>
>> I may be misunderstanding you, but is this not how Kannel behave 
>> today? For a connection to a SMSC you can use CIMD2.
>>
>> 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.
>>
> 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
>
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