Service Virtualization Solutions for Software Testing

How It Works

Often, crucial dependent services may be unavailable, not yet developed, or access is limited, posing significant hurdles for automating testing practices. However, service virtualization steps in to mitigate these obstacles. Leverage Parasoft Virtualize to: 

• Simulate any system interaction: REST API, web services, databases, Java API calls, including robust support for over 120 protocols and message types. Easily share virtual services across teams. 
• Automatically test against virtual services when dependent services are unavailable, incomplete, unstable, or inaccessible for testing purposes.
• Facilitate parallel development and testing. Provide teams with virtualized services for dependent services that may still be in development, allowing multiple teams to work simultaneously and start testing earlier without dependencies or resource constraints hindering them. 
• Automatically fail over from a live service to a virtual service when system dependencies become unstable or go offline during automated test runs.

How It Works

Parasoft Virtualize significantly reduces testing costs in several key ways. 

• Allows teams to deploy and destroy virtual test environments effortlessly, ensuring resources are allocated only when necessary, minimizing waste and maximizing efficiency. This decreases operational costs and enhances flexibility and agility in testing practices. 
• Enables organizations to bypass the need for costly physical infrastructure with virtual test environments, significantly reducing expenses related to provisioning, maintaining, and scaling testing environments.
• Offers relief from third-party pay-to-play models, where companies are charged for access, offering a more sustainable and cost-efficient solution. 
• Provides teams with separate dedicated virtual test environments, reducing resource contention that often occurs in shared test environments and can lead to costly testing downtimes.

How It Works

By giving teams the ability to provision and control the data sets required for testing, our test data management solution eliminates reliance on production data and removes constraints related to data availability, confidentiality, and integrity. Leverage Parasoft Virtualize’s test data management to do the following. 

• Rapidly generate test data on demand. Eliminate the delays common in traditional test data management that often cause testing downtimes as teams wait for data to be provisioned.
• Give each team control over test data through support for easy creation and deployment of their own test data sets, providing independence from each other and eliminating test data pollution.
• Use recorded traffic to build data models with inferred constraints to generate additional synthetic data.
• Manage data for hierarchical messages like JSON using tree-based views on the data. 
• Mask and sanitize data to ensure privacy and compliance, reducing concerns around data governance and confidentiality.

How It Works

Traditional performance testing often requires an expensive infrastructure to simulate realistic production environments, leading to high operational expenses. Parasoft Virtualize enables teams to create virtualized environments that accurately mimic the behavior of dependent systems, eliminating the need for costly physical infrastructure. 

Teams can easily create virtual services that include specific performance characteristics and are optimized for load testing, and then deploy them to Virtualize’s performance server for fast response times and high throughput. By leveraging virtualized environments and ensuring virtual services are optimized for robust load testing, teams can conduct performance testing on demand and at scale without the financial burden of maintaining dedicated test environments. 

How It Works

Provisioning a new test environment poses significant challenges, often consuming valuable time and resources. Traditional methods require extensive setup and configuration, leading to delays in testing activities.

With the combination of Parasoft Virtualize and CTP, teams can build virtual test environments that can be swiftly deployed and destroyed on demand in the CI/CD pipeline. By eliminating the time-consuming setup and teardown processes associated with traditional test environments, test environment management enhances agility and responsiveness in testing workflows. 

When a live endpoint becomes unstable or unavailable during test execution, automatically switch to testing against the virtual service and mitigate test failures due to environment instabilities and access constraints. Easily provision different environments for different testing scenarios with the relevant test data. This ensures that the application performs as expected during negative testing and when validating common use cases and edge cases.

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