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Yeah! This is awesome jjaquinta; I'm going to try and make time this weekend to give it a spin on my apps and will report back - can see it becoming a really helpful dev tool. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you jjaquinta! I'll definitely try this out sometime this week.

Lots of updates. The UI is much easier to use, flows better, and there aren't long pauses anymore. I've been able to get it to work with both a locally run test server and a production AWS server. Note, you need to turn off certificate authentication because, obviously, the simulator isn't running inside of Amazon! If you are using the standard help function in Java, you can do this by putting this into your servlet class: static { System.setProperty(Sdk.DISABLE_REQUEST_SIGNATURE_CHECK_SYSTEM_PROPERTY, "true"); System.setProperty(Sdk.SUPPORTED_APPLICATION_IDS_SYSTEM_PROPERTY, ""); System.setProperty(Sdk.TIMESTAMP_TOLERANCE_SYSTEM_PROPERTY, ""); } A session log may now be saved or loaded. This can be used to define how to recreate problems and attached to a defect report. Eventually I'll add in a "playback" option so that problems may be re-created from such transcripts. It also now supports a most-recently-used list which makes it easier to work with multiple applications. You can also cut and paste application definitions from the clipobard. For example you can copy the text below, paste it in, and try out my Colossal Cave app: {"Endpoint":"https:\/\/ joawstestenv-8n6ctsz8mw.elasticbeanstalk.com\/cc","IntentURI":"https:\/\/ joawstestenv-8n6ctsz8mw.elasticbeanstalk.com\/data\/cc\/ColossalCave.json","UtteranceURI":"https:\/\/ joawstestenv-8n6ctsz8mw.elasticbeanstalk.com\/data\/cc\/ColossalCave.baf","Name":"Colossal Cave"} The most recently release can be downloaded from: https://github.com/jjaquinta/EchoSim/releases/tag/v0.0.4 Please message me here or add an issue to github for any problems you find.

Sweet! I can't wait to try this out. Between this and AWS Lambda I plan on writing my first "app" before my device even arrives (sometime next week!) d

Posted a new release 0.0.5 that now supports record and playback. You can exercise your Echo app's API through the test screen. Then, on the Script page you can import what you did, edit it, mark-up responses that were errors, and save it as a script file. You can then re-execute the same sequence of commands. It will display if all responses matched (or did not match) or original input. I've found it handy for quickly re-creating problems so I can asses if test my changes to see if they are fixed. Additionally I'm using it to build test cases for my regression suite.

Not sure if you've seen this - http://www.twitch.tv/boardworks/ I [i]think[/i] they're running your simulator for this.

I'm not so sure what they're doing. I don't think it's EchoSim. I'm not as fancy as all that. :-) But, just released 0.0.6, and it now supports letting you change your ApplicationID and UserID.

Sounds great, how do I use/start it? It's Java, correct?

Just go to releases and download the latest jar file. You should just be able to run it. It's all Swing UI, so any Java should do. I'll be posting a new release later tonight. Mostly cleaning up the Test panel UI. Not worth waiting for.

Just packaged a release, and wrote a proper readme: https://github.com/jjaquinta/EchoSim Test Suites let you wrap together several scripts and run them at once. I also added a way to directly call a function instead of a service. If you load up EchoSim in your development environment you can use it to test your code immediately and live. It really turbo-charges development. No more uploading anything.