My advice to others looking into using ReadyAPI Virtualization is to use it when your team depends heavily on multiple APIs, third-party services, or microservices integrations, as it is especially valuable for reducing testing bottlenecks and enabling parallel development. I also suggest investing time early in designing reusable virtual services and automation workflows, which provide the biggest long-term benefits for scalability and testing efficiency. Overall, I believe ReadyAPI Virtualization is a very useful solution for organizations working with complex integrations and distributed systems. Its biggest strengths are reducing dependency-related delays, improving test coverage, and enabling faster development cycles. With improvements in usability, cloud-native experience, and large-scale environment management, it could become even stronger for enterprise systems. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Technical Lead/Principle Java Engineer at Waverley Software
Real User
Nov 18, 2022
The solution handles APIs differently than Postman, so get familiar with it before you use it. I recommend the solution and rate it a seven out of ten.
Software Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Jan 26, 2022
My advice for anyone who is considering this product is that it is mainly for RESTful calls. If somebody is using Swagger APIs or some RESTful calls as part of the specification that they want to virtualize, then this tool can be a good choice. Also, if they want to virtualize a GUI tool, then it is good. In general, this is a good product but I think that the user experience has to be improved. There's just a lot of manual work that has to be done with scripting. This should be reduced to make it a more seamless experience for the user. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
Senior Software Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Sep 22, 2017
Functional (SoapUI Pro) and Performance (LoadUI Pro) testing do play a very vital role in establishing the APIs in the most efficient way, but ServiceV has the next level potential of reshaping the structure/response of the API in order to make them more adequate and sellable.
Service Virtualization enables developers and testers to simulate the behavior of specific components within an application, facilitating smoother development and testing processes by mimicking production environments.
Designed to emulate the behavior of certain components within complex applications, Service Virtualization allows teams to conduct sophisticated testing even when specific services are incomplete, unavailable, or difficult to access. This approach helps reduce costs,...
My advice to others looking into using ReadyAPI Virtualization is to use it when your team depends heavily on multiple APIs, third-party services, or microservices integrations, as it is especially valuable for reducing testing bottlenecks and enabling parallel development. I also suggest investing time early in designing reusable virtual services and automation workflows, which provide the biggest long-term benefits for scalability and testing efficiency. Overall, I believe ReadyAPI Virtualization is a very useful solution for organizations working with complex integrations and distributed systems. Its biggest strengths are reducing dependency-related delays, improving test coverage, and enabling faster development cycles. With improvements in usability, cloud-native experience, and large-scale environment management, it could become even stronger for enterprise systems. I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
The solution handles APIs differently than Postman, so get familiar with it before you use it. I recommend the solution and rate it a seven out of ten.
My advice for anyone who is considering this product is that it is mainly for RESTful calls. If somebody is using Swagger APIs or some RESTful calls as part of the specification that they want to virtualize, then this tool can be a good choice. Also, if they want to virtualize a GUI tool, then it is good. In general, this is a good product but I think that the user experience has to be improved. There's just a lot of manual work that has to be done with scripting. This should be reduced to make it a more seamless experience for the user. I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.
Functional (SoapUI Pro) and Performance (LoadUI Pro) testing do play a very vital role in establishing the APIs in the most efficient way, but ServiceV has the next level potential of reshaping the structure/response of the API in order to make them more adequate and sellable.
Very good for the price point and compared to more expensive or custom development solutions.