Take Control of Your Test Environment With Service Virtualization

Creating virtualized services with Parasoft Virtualize is easy and script-free. Teams can quickly generate virtual services from various sources, including:

• Recorded traffic between live services
• Request-and-response pairings
• Service definition files.

This flexibility allows you to simulate the behavior of dependent services and ensures comprehensive and accurate testing.

Furthermore, Virtualize’s learning mode makes creating virtual services even simpler. It continuously monitors live service calls, capturing requests and responses to automatically model the behavior of the service. Learning mode ensures that virtual services stay up to date by automatically updating them whenever the emulated endpoint changes. Teams always have an accurate and reliable simulation for their testing needs.

Virtualize also provides the ability to control and modify the behavior of virtual services, enabling teams to validate applications under various conditions. This includes complex scenarios that are challenging to reproduce with real systems, such as asynchronous responses, stateful interactions, and testing with different performance characteristics. This capability enhances the thoroughness of testing, supporting various use cases, edge cases, and error conditions effectively.

Virtualize efficiently handles changes in service dependencies with its Change Advisor learning mode feature.

The Change Advisor perspective provides a comprehensive change impact analysis by comparing the original service definition with an updated service definition. This analysis pinpoints how changes, such as renamed operations, added elements, or modified namespaces, affect the virtual asset.

After identifying the scope and nature of required updates, teams can define change templates to map the old service to the new one. These templates enable automatic updates of impacted virtual services, individually or in bulk. This significantly reduces manual effort and ensures consistency across the testing environment.

To keep virtual services aligned with real-world dependencies, Virtualize also incorporates a powerful learning mode. Learning mode continuously monitors live service interactions to model requests and responses accurately. When the emulated endpoint changes, the learning mode automatically updates the virtual services to reflect the latest definitions. This ensures that virtual services remain current and reduces the risk of testing with outdated assets, streamlining workflows, and maintaining testing accuracy.

Yes, service virtualization is highly suitable for both development and testing teams. Parasoft Virtualize offers robust features that cater to the needs of both groups, enhancing collaboration and efficiency throughout the software development lifecycle.

For development teams, Virtualize allows developers to create stable and realistic virtual services from various sources, including service definition files, recorded traffic, and request and response pairings. This enables developers to simulate the behavior of dependent services early in the development process, without waiting for external systems or third-party services that may be unavailable, incomplete, or costly to access.

With the ability to control and modify the behavior of virtual services, developers can test their integrations with other services and ensure that their code functions correctly under various conditions. This flexibility allows developers to move forward quickly, avoiding bottlenecks that arise when real services are unavailable.

For testing teams, Virtualize provides a powerful solution for creating comprehensive and accurate test environments. Testers can simulate the behavior of dependent services, supporting a wide range of testing scenarios, including edge cases and error conditions that are difficult to reproduce with live systems.

With Virtualize, testers can create virtual services that mimic the behavior of live services, enabling them to test applications under conditions that reflect real-world service interactions. This improves test coverage and ensures that the application is thoroughly validated.

The ability to simulate various performance characteristics also allows teams to conduct load and stress testing on their applications without relying on the performance of live systems.

Virtualize helps teams reduce testing costs by optimizing resource management and minimizing reliance on expensive physical infrastructure and external services. With the ability to easily deploy lightweight, inexpensive virtual test environments as needed, teams reduce waste and maximize efficiency.

This approach not only reduces operational costs but also enhances the flexibility and agility of testing practices. Additionally, by eliminating costly physical infrastructure, Virtualize allows organizations to avoid expenses related to provisioning, maintaining, and scaling test environments, leading to significant savings.

Another major cost-saving benefit Virtualize provides is bypassing third-party pay-to-play models, which often charge companies for access to external services. Virtualize offers a more cost-efficient solution. Teams can simulate external systems without incurring additional costs.

Furthermore, the tool provides dedicated virtual test environments, reducing resource contention and costly downtime that often occur in shared environments. This ensures more efficient and streamlined testing cycles, further driving down costs while improving overall testing effectiveness.