Clumsy, an open-source utility for simulating broken networks on Windows

Re:Clumsy, an open-source utility for simulating broken netw... by guardian5x on Thursday November 13, 2014 @06:01AM (#8600890)

Nice, this tool will help software engineers to make their software more robust. Far too often apps are only tested under ideal conditions and then fail when only a bad network connection, for example bad mobile reception, is available.

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Re:Clumsy, an open-source utility for simulating broken netw... by TheLoneWolfling on Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:56AM (#8602538)

In particular, a lot of applications will work fine if there is no network access, or if there is great network access, but will crash and burn when, for example, it can access url A but not url B. (the network equivalent of "if not exists(file): fallback() else: file.open()")

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Re:Clumsy, an open-source utility for simulating broken netw... by tomovo on Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:47PM (#8603258)

Weird things also happen when a request is fired but NOTHING happens - no failure, no response. It's what happens when you connect to one of those annoying paid airport wifi APs (and don't pay). No failure, no response, just a black hole for packets.

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