By leveraging Service Virtualization Agile and DevOps teams can use virtual services instead of production services, enabling frequent and comprehensive testing even when key components are missing from your system architecture.  The use of service virtualization overcomes the constraints associated with the dependent systems in order to run meaningful end-to-end tests in DevOps.

Up to now organisations were using traditional approaches, which meant that testing and development teams had to wait for the completed applications to be deployed and checked for proper functional, integration, and performance testing.  A survey by conducted by Voke Research, Inc. revealed that on average, developers, testers and QA teams  require access to 52 dependent elements for development or testing, however they get unrestricted access to only 23 of them. That’s 29 constraint points that are fundamentally risking an organization’s competitiveness.

Service Virtualization helps build a robust application by generating virtual assets that can be leveraged for testing the application’s performance and any other functionality almost in a production-like scenario. By emulating the behavior of essential components that will be present in a final production environment, service virtualization allows complex applications to go through integration testing much earlier, removing any risks that would otherwise delay production and time-to-market of an application.

QA and development teams have started to implement Service Virtualization with Agile approach to enhance productivity, reduce testing costs, and deploy quality software much faster than before. It can further support parallel development practices and ensure collaboration between QA, development and operations.



In today’s application economy, Agile practices in testing and workflow methodologies are becoming common, so implementing Service Virtualization for parallel development tasks becomes essential.

The benefits for IT organizations can be summarised below:

• Reduced Costs

As a result of implementing Service Virtualization, testing lifecycle is reduced which leads to  a reduction in testing and QA cost, and enhanced project  ROI.

• Faster Time-to-Market

Enhanced testing capabilities result in less time for new products to be released. This avoids the need to wait and get certification from the QA teams for each entity of the product.

• Better Product Quality

By replicating the deployment scenario for the new app or product, it becomes easier for the testers and QA team to identify issues and failures in earlier stages of process, which will lead towards a higher quality outcome.

• No Pressure for QA Teams

With virtualization, QA teams can perform integration testing even when the product is being developed by the development team.

Service virtualization will becoming more and more essential for teams that embrace DevOps. With continuous testing being a major element of DevOps, service virtualization can provide an “always there” test environment and ultimately deliver business value much faster velocity while ensuring high product quality.

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