Abstract: A simulator and/or simulation process operates by receiving a message from a system; comparing the received message to information stored in a response file used to simulate system response; and simulating a response to the system by outputting a response stored in association with a stored message matching the received message. The response file includes at least one message, a message marker associated with each message, at least one response associated with each message, and an end-of-response marker associated with each response. At least two responses are stored in association with a message, and the at least two responses are sequentially output in response to sequential receipt of the message. As such, the simulator can reply to any message by looking up its associated response in the response file. If more than one associated response appears in the response file, receipt of identical messages will illicit sequential and differing responses.

Abstract: The software amplification system conveniently transforms design information stored in a database into desired software products. The system transforms the database in a manner specified by a control file. The control file is essentially a parameterized sample of the desired output, interspersed with control instructions that instruct how to manipulate the design data and create the desired object.

Abstract: Methods for parsing and validating a command message produced by a network element in a network utilizes table-drive approach. The messages are parsed by a parsing engine in object code stored at the network element and which operatively breaks down each of the messages into its constituent parameters. As each parameter is parsed, it is compared to a set of allowed values in object code stored in tables at the network element. Each validated parameter is entered into a data structure so that a valid message is populated. The methods allow for quick parsing and validation of existing messages and simple updating of the tables to allow for validation of new messages.