[Asterisk-Users] Call simulators

[Rob Hillis]

I'm currently starting development of an add-on to a program designed to 
be used in a call-centre type environment that will interface very 
closely with Asterisk - quite possibly to the point that the add-on 
itself will be a softphone as well.

In order to test this application properly, I find myself needing to 
generate a constant volume of calls to a queue.  I can do this by 
dialling from the two test extensions I have set up on my system, but it 
would seem a better way of doing this would be to have an external 
application randomly generate calls at a certain volume.

My budget is not big - this is a project for a non-profit volunteer 
organisation I do a lot of work with so I would obviously prefer 
something open source.  The ability to randomly generate caller ID and 
intermittently suppress caller ID would be a *very* useful addition.

Does anyone know of any software that would fit this bill?  If such 
software doesn't exist, or is beyond my capacity to afford, what other 
options might I have?  My test rig is my home PABX - a very small setup 
running with three ATAs and two VoIP trunks.  It would seem that 
simulating a trunk would be the best way of doing this, but again, I 
don't know what is available.

Any help would be gratefully received.