Parasoft Virtualize Reviews

We primarily use the solution for API virtualization.

The solution has a lot of great features that we are able to take advantage of.

The initial setup is quite easy to manage.

The stability is good.

We've found the scalability to be very good.

We now have the ability to test our complex applications completely detached from integration middleware. This improves the reliability, speed, cost, and simplicity of testing.

MessageQueue support: Our infrastructure was designed with the ability to detach client systems via MessageQueue queue managers.

Captures and simulates live system behavior from recordings.

- Dependency Removal

- Not yet completed

- Controlled by a third-party or partner

- Available for testing only in limited capacity or at inconvenient times

- Needed for simultaneous access by different teams with varied test data setup and other requirements

Service Virtualization has provided a way to move forward where we do not find any way to go. Parasoft Virtualization has provided that feature or way, by creating virtual assets and implementing or achieving the real atmosphere through a Virtual Channel.

It captures and simulates live system behavior from recordings.

• Easy testing environment creation.
• No need to have deep development/infrastructure knowledge.
• Really intuitive interface.

Its business model of perpetual licensing sales is outdated; they should deliver it as SaaS.

• Ease of building service virtualization: Either by recording an existing data flow which can be replayed or by setting up a service simulation based on a WSDL (SOAP) or JSON schemas (REST). The product generates usable templates. Developers do not have to spend much time to set it up.
• Ease of deployment of the virtualized services: Either by graphical user interfaces for manual deployment or using the provided API for automated deployment. The latter is necessary for integrating in an automated deployment pipeline.

• Extensibility of the product in order to customize as and where needed, in case proprietary protocols or message formats are used in the customer's environment.

• By decoupling less of the available and expensive backend systems, and faster development of the dependent components was reached.
• By simulating systems, many tests can be executed earlier in the continuous delivery pipeline (shift-left principle).

• Simulation of misbehaviour for the service-providing systems made it possible to make service-consuming components more robust.

There are several features of Parasoft Virualize worth mentioning, but some of them are:

1. Ease of creating message responders

2. Using custom transports, message formats and tools

3. Working with message proxies

4. Customizing request matching and correlations

Parasoft Virtualize helped us in accelerating application delivery by allowing us to test early. We were given an application under test when some of the major back-end components were not available, apart from the service contracts being ready. Using SV allowed us to expose defects when they were fastest, easiest and least costly to resolve. We were able to complete system testing, and resolve interface integration issues even before the real back-end system was made available. Our organisation was able to shift left using Parasoft Virtualize.

• Quick generation of virtualized services.
• Reuse of common data in other fields as test automation (using SOATest) or test data management.
• Low technical knowledge required to start using the tool.
• Environment Management gives organizations a powerful visual interface to manage and create virtualized service.

• I've used Virtualized on some different projects with different protocols and technologies such as: WSDL, IBM MQ, Proprietary protocols and XML. In general I noticed some improvements for organizations.
• Easy integration with another tools in order to boost the SDLC agility. This enables organizations to speed up their SDLC providing test environments as soon as possible.
• Allows one to discover how the services operate and disseminate information in organizations where there are undocumented processes and key individuals hold all the knowledge about specific processes. This is very helpful to have a system vision to create virtualized services as required.