In my software tool, users face connection issues in their network. In my test machine such problems will not occur. Is there any way to simulate connection issues in my machine? It is very important to debug the kind of issues that my users are facing.

Thanks.

What are you connecting to that won't fail? Network? Mail server? Database? Remoting? HTTP?
What protocols? TCP/IP? UPD?

I would imagine that setting up a test case that points to a non-existent end-point would satisfy the need to test a failed connection.

-Peter
compiledthoughts.com

Specifically it is Database server that does not fail under test conditions. The simple reason being there is no huge network traffic in my test server. In Live Server there is heavy network traffic.

Non existent end point will not work. Because I want my application to encounter connection problems randomly as it occurs in Live. In Live depending on the network, my application would connect successfully and occasionally would experience connection problems.

So I need a tool to simulate connection problems.

Sounds like you need to look into load testing.

-Peter
compiledthoughts.com