How Does Parasoft Virtualize Simplify Service Virtualization?

Simulate services and complete test environments by capturing live system behavior, importing service descriptions (Swagger/OpenAPI, RAML, WSDL), or manually creating them from example payloads. Simulate any system interaction (REST APIs, web services, mainframes, databases, Java API calls, plus an additional industry-leading 120+ protocols/message types) and share virtual services easily across the team and with build automation, using Parasoft’s web interface and integrations with source control systems.

By using virtual services, developers can start integration work even before a new service is built or available. QA test teams can reduce testing wait times, increase the stability of their testing practice, and execute test suites more reliably as unstable dependencies are replaced with stable virtual services. Users can create and configure these virtual services right on the desktop or in the browser without having to set up a complex supporting infrastructure.

Virtual services created in Parasoft Virtualize can be built without any scripting knowledge at all using multiple visual tools built into its robust and intuitive user interface. Create virtual assets from recorded traffic with the traffic wizard. Apply a service definition to the traffic wizard to improve the mapping accuracy for new virtual assets.

Your virtual services need to recover from change as fast or faster than the real counterparts. To lower maintenance costs, Parasoft Virtualize’s Change Advisor automatically scans API interfaces, looking for changes in the services, and then identifies how the virtual services are impacted by those changes. Change templates then help easily update impacted virtual services and test data as necessary, either individually or with batch refactoring. In addition, users can easily and rapidly create self-learning virtual assets by enabling learning mode, creating always up-to-date virtual services that reflect the latest versions of the real services.

To keep track of all these changes, Parasoft fully supports versioning by storing all relevant data as comparable files that are compatible with standard version control systems.

Easily configure complex test conditions (e.g. “what-if,” security, fail-over, performance, and negative test scenarios), and uncover hidden performance issues in your application under test by controlling the performance of the service, for load testing or slow network simulation. Users can easily configure a variety of scenarios by dynamically data-driving service virtualization from external data sources, including Parasoft’s powerful data repository infrastructure.

Parasoft Virtualize’s web interface makes it easy to collaborate with the team. From the web interface, users can create deployments on the fly for automated testing, monitor and configure the test environment, capture real traffic, and get a detailed view of requests and responses.

Parasoft Virtualize is the only solution with an integrated test data management system, enabling greater flexibility when building virtual services. Unlike other service virtualization solutions with separate test data management systems that require data to be imported into the virtual ecosystem, Parasoft Virtualize’s test data solution is built on top of Parasoft Virtualize, allowing users to easily capture, manage, model, generate, and secure test data, and ultimately build more comprehensive virtual services that are easier to maintain.

Integrate Parasoft Virtualize with various LLM providers, such as OpenAI or Azure OpenAI, to utilize the power of Parasoft’s AI Assistant. Ask questions in natural language and receive immediate answers about Virtualize features and functionalities. Accelerate learning, troubleshoot efficiently, and enhance your testing workflow with AI-powered support integrated directly into your toolset.