The interviewer simulator component (IntvrSim.dll) is provided to support testing your dialing provider as it is called by the session engine. It is scriptable through mrScriptBasic and scripts can be run using mrScriptCl or UNICOM Intelligence Professional. The interviewer simulator component must be run on a computer with UNICOM Intelligence Interviewer installed, and an activated project setup for phone interviewing must be available.

Example test scripts for testing representative interviewer actions (TestInterviewer.mrs), supervisor actions (TestSupervisor.mrs), and failover (TestFailover.mrs) are provided. You can also add your own test scripts. The example test scripts are at:

Running these test scripts does not verify that your dialing provider is correct. It is only a first step.

In order to debug your components, you will need to attach a debugger to the IIS process hosting the session engine (mrIEng.dll component). See Which IIS process is running the Web and Interview tiers for information about how to determine which IIS process is running the session engine for your debugging session.

You might find the IVW logs helpful if your script experiences errors. See Log files, in particular “Switching Trace Logging On and Off”. Trace logs from the session engine and sample management script might provide more information that can help in tracking down errors.

This section describes the methods and properties of the interviewer simulator. Refer to the example test scripts for example usage at:

The methods for InterviewerSimulator are listed in the following table and are associated with SessionEngine and dialing provider methods. The Dialing Provider column shows IDialingProvider methods unless marked with SM; they are ISampleManagementProvider methods when marked with SM.