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1. A tool operating on a computer for debugging a plurality of different devices having different communication protocols associated thereto to support testing of communications interfaces using commands obtained from a command definition file for the device being tested, the tool comprising:
a plurality of communication modules, residing on the computer, for communicating with one or more of the plurality of different devices via a physical transport of the communication module, each communication module communicating using at least one of the different communication protocols; a protocol plug-in datastore, residing on the computer, that stores a plurality of available protocol plug-ins, wherein a protocol plug-in wraps at least one protocol stack for communicating with a device of the plurality of different devices, the protocol plug-in using a stack wrapper to selectively communicate with at least one device stack layer using commands obtained from a command definition file defining protocol stack layers, wherein the protocol plug-in data store is implemented in a non-transitory computer readable medium; a hardware processor; a protocol manager interfaced with the protocol plug-in datastore to discover the plurality of available protocol plug-ins and present the plurality of available protocol plug-ins for selection; and a stack broker, residing on the computer, that receives a protocol plug-in selection corresponding to a particular protocol plug-in of the plurality of available protocol plug-ins and instantiates the particular protocol plug-in, on the computer, using a common stack interface, the common stack interface, residing on the computer, defines an interface for communicating with each of the plurality of available protocol plug-ins, the common stack interface includes an open session method to open a communication session with a device being tested, a create command method to create commands for the device being tested, and a create command argument method to create arguments for the commands created using the create command method; wherein the protocol manager is configured to receive a given command for the device being tested and passes the given command to the stack broker; wherein the stack broker receives the given command from the protocol manager and issues the given command to the instantiated protocol plug-in using the open session method, the create command method and the create command argument method of the common stack interface; wherein the instantiated protocol plug-in receives the given commands for at least one device stack layer of the a device being tested defined in accordance with the common stack interface and generates data packets sent via the physical transport to the device being tested, wherein the protocol manager, the stack broker, and the instantiated particular protocol plug-in are implemented by computer-executable instructions executed by the hardware processor of the computer; a manual command interface configured to retrieve a command definition file from a command definition datastore, wherein the manual command interface receives a given command and communicates the given command to the protocol manager; and a sequence command interface configured to retrieve a command definition file from the command definition datastore and to receive a sequence of commands, wherein the sequence command interface, in response to receiving the sequence of commands, creates a script for the device being tested and, in response to an input, executes the script by automatically communicating the sequence of commands from the script to the protocol manager. |
