Service Virtualization

Service Virtualization

Historically, developers have always made use of some form of “test double” whenever their code was required to make a call to another application or service, external to their code. But stubs and mocks, built and maintained by developers, are simply not flexible enough for today’s modern development methodologies which rely heavily on service architectures and service integrations.

When any code-consuming downstream service is being written or tested, the only effective way to overcome the common challenges of such services not being available at that time is Service Virtualization. Service Virtualization is an intelligent platform that learns the multitude of appropriate responses to a multitude of possible requests to an enterprise’s services. It doesn’t require highly skilled developers to develop any code and can scale to support the development and test environments, including performance testing initiatives.

The Micro Focus Service Virtualization solution takes service virtualization to a whole new level supporting developers and testers alike with the ability to mimic service technologies including messaging services like MQ, web services like SOAP, APIs such as REST as well as a number of services for electronic data interchange between financial institutions, defined as ISO standards.