Data Sheet Application Delivery Management

Service Virtualization

Easily eliminate the development and testing “wait time” that slows application delivery by enabling teams to quickly create realistic simulations of and Virtual Services. Now, teams can focus on service quality rather than resource constraints.

Key Features ■ One solution for unit, functional and performance testing—built-in data and performance modelling capabilities; pre-built integrations to ALM, UFT and LoadRunner family of products ■ Cross-vertical usage—proven in multiple industry sectors including financial services, telecom, utilities, insurance manufacturing and more ■ Data-oriented simulation—broad built-in enterprise protocols coverage and modelling techniques independent of customers technical background and skills ■ Large-scale load testing—build for scale and load testing of realistic performance simulation scenarios without impacting production or 3rd party systems Product Highlights services are not available, when data access Today’s composite app initiatives often cre- is restricted, when data is difficult to attain, or ■ Dev focused API simulation—new simulation technology with innovative approach to solving when the services are not suitable for the par- ate a difficult dilemma for development and advanced simulation use cases in testing testing teams: meet the project deadline OR ticular test. of enterprise applications spanning across deliver a high-quality service. The core issue: Web, Mobile and Internet of Things growing interdependency among functional Major impediments addressed by Service ■ Flexible infrastructure—deployment of components leads to reliance on resources Vir­­tu­alization: multiple simulation nodes depending on from third-party vendors, which leads to wait ■ Non-availability of production and performance or test environments needs with time and extra cycles. 3rd party systems for development, multiple licensing options functional and performance testing ■ Comprehensive technology stack—100+ Service Virtualization enables application causing delays technologies and protocols available for teams to easily create Virtual Services that virtualization and simulation, as a combination can replace targeted services in a composite ■ Increased complexity in building and of transport and message parts maintaining testing environments with application or multi-step business process. By ■ Design, publish, and run in minutes—achieve accurately simulating the behavior of the actual high maintenance costs faster time to value with the industry’s most component, it enables developers and testers ■ Inability of developers to quickly identify user-friendly solution to design, publish and run to begin performing functional or performance and replicate the root cause of failure and enterprise Virtual Services and API simulations testing right away, in parallel, even when the real deliver fixes in a timely manner Data Sheet Service Virtualization

By using Micro Focus Service Virtualization, Users can quickly model access to depen- testing tools and scalable simulation runtime development and testing teams can achieve: dent application components and shared allows easy simulation of extreme backend services behavior that are hard to achieve on ■ Faster time-to-market by speeding up services, expose unfinished components to release cycles testing teams and other projects for dev/test limited physical infrastructure, helps to miti- and eliminate the need to create and maintain gate constraints, and test performance within Increase efficiencies by eliminating ■ programming stubs. application dependencies. Users can stand bottlenecks caused by application up working test environments faster and with complexity and dependencies OUT-OF-THE-BOX BROAD PROTOCOL lower costs and conduct more realistic tests ■ Shorter test and reproduction cycles with AND SIMULATION COVERAGE by modelling backend functional, performance, earlier detection of defects SV comes with a range of pre-built industry- and network behavior. ■ Improved overall product quality with fewer wide protocols enabled for out-of-the-box defects reaching production simulation. SV provides dynamic data genera- SCALABLE AND SECURED tion, auto-parameterization to increase simu- SIMULATION INFRASTRUCTURE ■ Reduce costs by eliminating the SV comes with a flexible simulation infrastruc- requirement for access to constrained lation robustness, and built-in data masking ture capable of handling large numbers of con- business-critical infrastructure, third- to ensure data security. Advanced simulation current simulations while delivering thousands party systems, or pay-per-use cloud capabilities like hybrid simulation and perfor- of transactions per second. Virtual Services components for testing mance batch processing cover even the most complicated testing scenarios. are deployed in SV Server nodes serving mul- The net result of using Service Virtualization is tiple Virtual Services and controlled over API, not only the ability to ”shift-left” and execute DEVELOPER-FOCUSED SIMULATION WITH command line interface, or web-based portal. tests earlier in the delivery cycle, but also to EXTENDED MOBILE AND IOT CAPABILITIES The access to SV Server is secured by authen- focus on service quality attributes such as SV comes with complementary SV Lab tech- tication and Virtual Services can be restricted performance, reliability, and scalability. In short, nology providing developers and test engi- using Access Control Lists (ACLs). Service Virtualization delivers both faster de- neers with a powerful set of new capabilities to livery times and higher quality services. In the solve advanced simulation use cases in testing WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT process, it creates significant benefits for all of enterprise applications spanning web and Web-based Service Virtualization Management application delivery stakeholders. mobile user interfaces, from legacy back-ends Interface brings visibility and control to Virtual to cloud-native applications, connected de- Services across multiple server nodes. It al- Key Benefits and Features vices, and Internet of Things. SV Lab provides lows provisioning and control of virtual envi- ronments; management and configuration of Increase Efficiency: Shift-Left and dev testers the use of simulation language, protocol agents; parameterized search and fil- Execute Tests Earlier in the Delivery Cycle simulation of publish-subscribe pattern, and the ability to use simulation models as invoca- tering; and access to Virtual Service and server INDUSTRY’S MOST USER-FRIENDLY SOLUTION tion scenarios, streams of data, or API tests. SV statistics, event audit, logged messages and TO DESIGN AND PUBLISH VIRTUAL SERVICES Lab is highly portable and embedded in other simulation reports. Server and Virtual Service Service Virtualization (SV) provides an intui- test automation tools. statistics can be exported to an external file in tive design IDE with data-oriented modeling .xlsx format. independent of the customer’s technical Improve Quality: Conduct More Realistic, background and skills. SV capabilities include FLEXIBLE DEPLOYMENT Scalable, and Secure Tests with learning, data and samples imports, manual SV’s infrastructure allows deployment of mul- scenario modelling, data driving from data- Fewer Defects Reaching Production tiple SV Servers depending on performance base or files, advanced scripting, and interac- ONE SOLUTION FOR UNIT, FUNCTIONAL requirements, test environments, system ar- tive, on-the-fly simulation model creation. The AND PERFORMANCE TESTING chitecture, or organizational needs. Users can easy-to-use design IDE contains an embed- SV comes with built-in performance modelling choose either to use direct OS installation or ded simulation runtime for quick simulation capabilities on top of functional and data mod- containerized deployment with pre-created and local use. els. Ready-to-use integration to performance Docker images.

2 Faster Time to Market: Accelerate the DEVOPS AND Utility Company Software Release Cycle with End-to-End Integration with Continuous Integration (CI) The utility company stopped missing service Testing Tool Integrations tools using SV management API and CI plugins delivery deadlines due to a lack of available such as Jenkins or Bamboo allows SV to be systems. With Service Virtualization, it was able PRE-INTEGRATED FOR USE WITH FUNCTIONAL part of the continuous integration process. to develop/test code calls against systems that AND PERFORMANCE TESTING TOOLS When combined with test automation, these did not currently exist. SV comes with pre-built integrations to the UFT capabilities enable enhanced workflows for Functional Testing and LoadRunner Per­form­ Developers and Testers through shortened ance Testing portfolios. Test engineers can Leading Electronics Retailer feedback cycles in Continuous Integration, Expensive stub solutions from the dev team easily provision and control Virtual Services , and DevOps practices. were slow and had no integration to perfor- directly from automation tools and collect mance tools. Service Virtualization processed metrics during test execution and simulation ~2.5 times more SAP IDOC messages per sec- time. SV integration to LoadRunner tools allows ond than competitive solutions. real time capture and visualization of Virtual “With Service Virtualization, we test Service simulation and server metrics directly earlier and gain more confidence Hospitality Organization in LoadRunner tools. Auto deployment of as- in our end-to-end capabilities. sociated Virtual Services is provided once the The ease of use of SV and its seamless inte- script is executed and also provides the abil- We’ve replaced unreliable systems, gration to the ALM performance and functional ity to change simulation conditions on the fly increased staff efficiency, and testing stack provided a comparable produc- when the script is already running. launched new customer services tion-like environment when production was not available for testing. SV provided the ability to with complete success.” MOBILE TESTING WITH SIMULATION test varied response values for un-configured Micro Focus UFT Mobile includes a built-in sites or endpoints to gain visibility of the impact ALAN ABERNETHY on the SOA bus. capability for Dev Testers and Developers to Principal Engineer execute their tests with simulated APIs within Sky test automation tools. SV Lab enables mo- Financial Services bile application teams to easily create Virtual Service Virtualization helped solve the chal- Services that can replace targeted services in lenges of testing 50 to 100 apps per year with a composite application or multi-step business Customer Success third-party dependencies such as government process. The SV lab is deployed together with Service Virtualization software has been tried, regulation and electronic payment brokers and UFT Mobile and allows simulation of REST API tested, and proven at real-world customer sites various protocols such as ISO8583—so that and communication to physical devices over around the world—in virtually every vertical the company could meet agile team needs and NFC and Bluetooth services that Application market segment. Here are just a few examples implement a model. Under Test (AUT) consumes. of the benefits achieved: Key Software Components TEST ASSET MANAGEMENT Major Telecommunications Company and Licensing SV comes with pre-built integrations to Appli­ ­ The ability to test earlier and more effectively Service Virtualization Software consists of the cation Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Source with Service Virtualization eliminated third- following applications: Code Management (SCM), allowing storage and party dependencies and helped the company management of Service Vir­tuali­zation projects record a 100% gain in efficiency. SV Designer as test resources in ALM or together with testing The SV Designer is a client application enabling assets in SCM. Shared SV asset management Fortune 100 Global Bank creation of Virtual Services and run simula- allows easier maintenance and versioning, and, The SV software significantly improved the tions of real service behavior. The Service facilitates re-use of the Virtual Services by other efficacy of its performance testing, catching Virtualization Designer is used for design and users and other testing tools. issues that weren’t identified by other simula- validation of Virtual Services within the same tion tools. desktop environment and includes an embed- ded server for hosting virtual services.

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SV Server ENTERPRISE EDITION The SV Server is a standalone server applica- ■ SV Designer: seat, unlimited VSs, 10 TPS tion that hosts the running of Virtual Services. ■ SV Server: The Service Virtualization Server is optimized – Static: server instance, unlimited VSs for performance, can contain many more ser- vices than the SV Designer, and can be ac- – Dynamic: VSs in simulation, unlimited SV cessed by multiple Designers. Server nodes, 3 VS types – Includes limited capacity of SV Lab SV Lab Server Virtual Services The SV Lab Server is a standalone application that can run a subset of protocols and only Vir­ tual Services defined by simulation language— System Requirements in context of API, mobile and IoT testing. Supported Operating Systems: ■ Windows: Windows 8.1,10, Windows Server SV Management Interface 2012/R2, 2016 , 2019 The SV Management Interface is a web applica- ■ Linux (SV Server only): Red Hat Enterprise tion enabling management of Virtual Services Linux 7.3, Oracle Linux 7.3 and CentOS 7 and configuration on SV Servers, without ■ : MS SQL 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, Azure SQL, Oracle 11 /12 , opening the Designer or individual projects. g c PostgreSQL 9.x/12.x The Service Virtualization Management inter- face is installed by default when you install the ■ SV Lab Server: Open JDK 8u112, Oracle Java 1.8.111 SV Server. ■ Containers: Docker (Windows and Linux), VMware Flexible Licensing SV offers two editions and two SV Server li- censing options to accommodate almost any Learn More organizational need. For additional information about Micro Focus Service Virtualization: EXPRESS EDITION SV Product Page ■ SV Designer: 3 VS, 10 TPS (free) SV Help SV Community SV Download

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