Senior Project - SHMOO

U S WEST has developed an open call-processing structure which separates feature actions from feature interactions. Feature interactions are handled by a separate component called the Feature Manager. The Feature Manager controls the distribution of signaling events to features by means of simple data structures specifying a sequence of tests and actions. As the number of managed features increases, manual construction of the programs used by the Feature Manager becomes more and more difficult. The goal of this project was the development of a tool that accepts descriptions of features and high-level relationships between features and automatically produces the run-time Feature Manager code. Examples of these high-level relationships include such things as "feature A and feature B are mutually exclusive and "feature B has higher priority than feature A". Feature descriptions are expressed in terms of the event/response pairs allowed in the open-call processing model. The tool was written in C to build and execute in a POSIX environment.