Broadcom Service Virtualization Benefits

it_user558456 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Architect at American family insurance

We use it as a kind of defect-finding tool when it comes to regression testing and automation testing. You can’t use the tests against pages that have JavaScript calls being made from them. So CA wrote a Chrome plug-in for us, which, once installed, captures the transactions we aren’t able to see, like Fiddler. So, we have set up standards across those. At this point in time, other than the applications where we are having challenges, even with the additional plug-in, we are using CA Service Virtualization for testing.

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it_user797925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Staffing Engineer at Qualcomm Incorporated

To give you an example, we have had developers produce code later than we wanted to, but we've had some other stuff that was dependent on that. So what we were able to do was virtualize these assets and then go forward with our developer and not have to wait for these additional services to be available.

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JS
Senior Engineer at American Express

There are a lot of benefits of this solution but I will give you the top benefit from my experience. Since I am from the testing team, I have to test a particular service and the service needs to be developed either by a third party or I am dependent on my development team to complete the service development, only then I can start my testing process. However, with CA Service Virtualization, what I can do is I can start my testing from Scrum 1. I can do this by grabbing details from the developer in my team or the third-party service and ask for sample request responses. Using these sample request responses, I can create a virtual service and then no longer am I dependent on any third party or a developer for my testing process.

The only thing is that I create the service, deploy the virtual service and then use it for my testing; it's that simple.Thus it saves a lot of my time and if I am using any third-party services, then it saves me money as well.

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it_user558429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Manager - Service Virtualisation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's time to market of course, and also the total cost of ownership. We don't have to build big end-to-end environments anymore. Previously, any major project would come along and say, "I need to build more kit," and you just keep filling data centers. You just can't sustain that. It's expensive to maintain, and we don't always close those down; so someone's paying to keep the lights on.

Whereas with SV, we can negate some of that, and actually just build them up against the virtual service. You still use the end-to-end environments at the end of the day for your site testing, but it means that actually we can get through the primary parts of it a lot quicker. It's good.

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it_user345570 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Tech Lead at Nike

Isolating the application that we’re testing is the top benefit. Also, it adds the ability to generate predefined responses to data so that we have a complete understanding as to how we’d perform.

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it_user453096 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

When I originally bought Service Virtualization there were several things that we leveraged it for. One of them was that we had a merger acquisition, and we needed to interface the two systems together. So we needed to be able to share all the account information and those types of activities that were happening. There was going to be a set of middleware services that were going to be built on our end to allow the other system to communicate. Before that was ready, they wanted to start testing. We could use Service Virtualization in that case to let them start working with it before those middleware services were built. That was really beneficial. That's actually how I brought the product in in the first place.

The next thing that we really used it for was training. In the past, we tried to have training environments that were done different ways. They actually tried to have one application where they had two people dedicated to just trying to keep a full end to end environment up and functioning. They were never really able to do that. It kind of went by the wayside. It was expensive, and they just couldn't keep it in sync, and it was breaking. You've got enough different systems going that they couldn't fix all the issues. You had to go to either the development teams or somebody to help you out with how to figure out where the problem was. That wasn't real tenable.

Another way people have been trying to do it was they would build a simulator. One of them was a Flash-type simulator that tried to do it, but of course that would get out of date, and then they'd have to go back and spend a lot of money that way to try to update it. What we did is we built the services we needed to allow the applications to work in a training scenario so people could run those training scenarios when new sales people were coming in. They could run them with our call center folks and they have an opportunity to start working with the app ahead of time and not have to work with real data, per se.

We've had a situation where folks forgot to scrub the phone numbers. They took them straight from production, so a little bit to the TDM type of situation, and what happened was I got an e-mail shortly after we released one of our products, it had come all the way down from the CEO, people were trying to figure out what happened - a lady had called and said her daughter had had her phone number changed three times in the course of one week.

It turned out that people were actually using the real live system instead of the training environment, but they were reading the training documentation, ‘do this, put this phone number in.’ Those phone numbers were real phone numbers in this case, and we would treat it as one, or we'll call it real account numbers. People were changing those account numbers on the customer, and that wasn't so good. We quickly went to scrubbed account numbers, but that was one of those things, just one of those side effects where a TDM type of solution can become very important and helpful to make sure that you're running it through that kind of scrubbing process.

Those are a couple things, the training, the helping to get things going, and then the shift to the left. That's been a real benefit for us. We can get more testing in sooner and we actually had one project where I pushed us to use it because we couldn't get a stable environment, so I said let's virtualize those services. In doing that, we actually were able to allow the teams to do all their testing. By the time it got to our QA testing, I believe they found only one defect in the application on that.

The later in the cycle that you find defects, the more expensive it is, so finding those things upfront and doing it even without an environment that had full end to end capability, which was kind of always my point, was you may find some integration issues, but you can get so much of the functionality tested of an application with Service Virtualization if you've done a decent job versus just having to wait to get a full environment, especially when you don't have stable environments.

For Release Automation, obviously what we wanted is things that are repeatable so that we can do things faster, and it doesn't require the manual configuration because when you start to drive for faster cadence, you just have to rely on more and more automation. It has to be a known process, you implement it, and if you fix it once, it fixes it for all of your deployments. The other important thing here is that you must make sure that whatever processes you settle on, you're going to do it. Whether you're doing it in your Dev environment, your QA, your staging or your production, you want the same process everywhere so that if you find the problem, you can fix it once, and that fixes it for everybody. You’re always running a prod type environment as well, which just ensures much more when you get there.

A lot of companies including ourselves have been in a situation where what we do in production is distinctly different from any of the other environments, and that leads to a lot of extra resources being dedicated just to managing the production environments. Release Automation allows us to implement processes that can be reused through all the environments.

Even if you're not getting a full DevOps model in place yet, it’s critical that your production support people are working with you up front beginning with the development teams, which is how I actually started promoting the concepts. The concept of DevOps was because we needed to be able to really get in sync with what we wanted to do in production, as that was the end game. We needed people to be much closer together in alignment. That development was building things that were appropriate for production, provided the insights into the stability of the application, things like that. At the same time, we work on getting closer to a production-like environment all the way through.

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it_user572823 - PeerSpot reviewer
AVP Quality Assurance at GM Financial

We are able to get further testing on a couple of interfaces. We do a lot of third-party request out for a loan; fraud verification; credit bureau. A lot of times, those data setup and data needs take a longer period of time than what maybe we have, so we're able to virtualize both the credit bureaus and some of our fraud facilities to get the testing done.

Also, facilitating in the training environments, where training environments are typically used part time, you don't want necessarily to have all the hardware and software laying around part-time. We're able to virtualize those interfaces.

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SB
Manager, Testing & Quality Assurance with 10,001+ employees

It helps us with work/life balance. If we didn't have that CA Service Virtualization, we would have to run our performance tests during the night, because that's when the mainframe is least used. For our team members it helps them to maintain a better work/life balance, as they can execute their tests in the daytime so they don't have to spend the weekends and nights doing so.

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it_user560256 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees

By using the DevTest tool, we have successfully automated the testing in the Dev and QM spaces. We have also carried out virtualization of a few systems and intend to apply it on a larger scale in future.

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it_user558006 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We not only use Service Virtualization for web services, we also use it to virtualize services that we used to pay for. It can be used in the enterprise bus to integrate external applications. In the QA domain, you need to pay a lot to use their services. Service Virtualization can save you this money.

For example, I have previous experience with the financial and insurance industries. In the financial sector, we integrate with third-party credit agencies to check credit scores. You still need to pay for these services even when you are only testing your application. If you virtualize that functionality, you don't need to talk to them, and you don't need to be dependent on their system availability.

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it_user108438 - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It eliminates bottlenecks in the test system sharing.

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it_user516930 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Test Lead Contract at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Specifically, service virtualization has reduced infrastructure costs by close to 40%. It helps in early problem detection and early fix, leading to early product release.

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it_user328938 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

With the radio's hardware costs allow the development team to what they call shift left, and start to develop their code against the other back-end services that we may not have available in time. These are pretty much the benefits there that we see.

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it_user348210 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The benefits are cost savings on hardware and earlier defect identification. We have a bunch of metrics we just presented on this.

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it_user521982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technology Manager - Digital Channel Technology at Wells Fargo

We do application performance management or testing, where we have two options: Either we have to build an infrastructure end-to-end or we have to use the service virtualization capability that can mimic the actual endpoints, which makes it much easier for testing.

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it_user558597 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior VP at Citi

My organization is looking at CA Agile, where this solution is available for the development and testing teams to enable their testing and provide a bug-free code.

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it_user558651 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Program Manager at Infosys

It has helped us to shift-left in our testing life cycle.

We do start testing at an early stage in the development environment, even before it gets into QA.

Generally, for our agile development projects, most of the third-party interfaces or interfacing applications which are shared services such as middleware services are not available. This is when we use CA Service Virtualization for early testing. Once we get into the QA environment, we test with real interfaces.

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it_user558162 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Engineer II at GM Financial

It helps with parallel testing. With all the development happening, the sub-systems are not available completely. By virtualizing those systems and services, we are able to deliver our product quickly.

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it_user378147 - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Our application requires the integration of many services across many APIs both internal and external. Due to this increased complexity, it is important that the testing of complex systems also starts early as possible. Leaving the testing until the end of product delivery increases project risk and the cost of fixing any defects found during later development stage. Using the power of CA Service Virtualization, it is now possible to perform integration testing on every application build. For application components still under development, service virtualization allows integration testing to occur even earlier in the development cycle simulating the missing parts of the system. Service virtualization also allows driving of error scenarios from both internal and external systems that may be hard or even impossible to produce, even with the real systems.

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it_user779277 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Product Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available. So, they can continue testing using this capability, whether those services are available or not.

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it_user558087 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It's giving us a base start to add some customer framework so that we all behave in the same manner. For example, we've integrated it with Jenkins. We started to use the invoke XML results to integrate with other services to show us results. We can do that in Jenkins or we can do that with some custom visibility tools that we're building.

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it_user211176 - PeerSpot reviewer
Innovation Chain Process Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Our supply chain applications became available for more than 70% of the time compared to 25% before we started using LISA.

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it_user40593 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Quality Engineering at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The biggest thing, the huge time to market gain. The other thing is just financial efficiency. We're seeing huge financial gains in terms of using the tools. One of the biggest things that I like about the CA products is they do what they say they're going to do. From financials, we're seeing millions of dollars worth of savings. We're also seeing time to market gains, just based on the fact that we're not dependent or delayed by back end systems and other environments that traditionally caused us delays.

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it_user174312 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Director at Bridgetree

I have used CA LISA in two organizations. In the first one, we were leveraging the virtualization capabilities to fill gaps with the middleware software for an ESB application. This enable the test teams to start earlier before the hardware and applications were fully ready for test.

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RE
Test Manager - DevOps at a maritime company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It hasn't matured enough yet to provide good prospects; we are still in the process of implementation. I can't tell you if anything in the process has improved or not, but the objective is to use this DevTest tool to shorten the development cycle. It hasn't proved itself yet. We've had it for a short time so I can't tell you if we succeeded or not.

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it_user349494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of QA with 1,001-5,000 employees

At the moment, we are still rolling out elements of the product. But we can already see that it gives us capabilities we haven’t had before, and we are very happy with it.

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it_user558258 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Program Manager at Vectren

We were having a lot of bottlenecks in our development process. Developers were waiting around for somebody else to finish and that helped alleviate that.

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it_user367368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's helped with our automation testing.

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it_user350112 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mobile QE Tech Lead at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We're still working with it, but it's given us a common deliverable. The overall testing strategy allows us to have more common strategies amongst various products.

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it_user355620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT Manager - Non-Prod Environments at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

One of the things I like about it is it actually does what it claims to do. It virtualizes application services. A lot of the times companies come in with their glossies and all this kind of stuff, and they put it up on a nice presentation, and they tell you all about it. Then we try to do it, and it just doesn't do it.

This product just works really, really well.

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it_user349413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation

It decreases a lot of bottlenecks when you’re stuck waiting on a downstream service to get done. We don’t lose so much time and money on that. With Service Virtualization, we can get rid of all that and develop a UI without waiting on all those. It increases production and decreases lost time.

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FD
Senior Software Architecht at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

In short, we are able to save a lot of valuable time. Testers and developers no longer complain about not having access to dependent services. We don't have to share/reserve resources or worry about our development being blocked by unavailable services.

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it_user349413 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation

I work in a test environment so teams come in and they do performance testing on their solutions. Whenever we can get their solution to work with DevTest it makes everything super quick. It reduces setup time, all the engineering you have to go through, and reduces it by days.

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it_user558240 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Applications Development at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It’s helped us in a number of ways. In addition to helping with testing and development, it has also allowed us to create a training environment that allows our agents to work on the latest changes to our software almost instantly.

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it_user558426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Advisor, App Development at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In terms of improving the way the organization functions, it gives us lot of visibility into what features are getting released when. It also helps us track across the organization in a much better fashion. I think visibility is the biggest benefit that we got out of implementing CA Service Virtualization.

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it_user570957 - PeerSpot reviewer
SME Subject Matter Expert at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have been able to enact a 'shift left' in our testing. In addition, I built an automated regression test pack for our teams. Thanks to CA Service Virtualization, we have new functionality (the ability to stub services we rely on) and we can test our own APIs in an efficient manner.

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it_user378339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Time-to-market has been a lot easier and quicker. QA can start automating from the beginning and developers can do unit testing faster. Third-party integration is not required so you save money by virtualizing third-party services.

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it_user212238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We have used service virtualization to quickly spin up training environments. Recently, our dev teams have started using service virtualization to improve the times of the Continuous Integration Testing (CI). Using service virtualization has reduced the time for each CI cycle from 4 - 5 hours to under 1 hour. This allows many more CI cycles to be executed per day and per sprint allowing quicker time to finding bugs, as well as faster times to promotion of builds to the test environments.

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it_user104973 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the performance test of a middleware application, we were able to run a much higher load with CA Service Virtualization which some of the real endpoints cannot handle. 

  • By achieving this, you can better measure and get the performance throughputs of the System under test (SUT), as well as, narrow down the bottlenecks with a greater precision of the SUT.
  • In one of the environments, we needed a 24/7 application availability, which was not realized when the middleware application was pointed to the real backend. This was due to one or more of the real backend being down on a consistent basis. Pointing to CA Service Virtualization services, this goal was almost achieved.
  • Eliminating the test data constraints: When testing against various backend, sometimes you need to test with a specific test data (such as a valid Credit Card number) or your test data needs to go through a series of validations in order to get a good response from a subsequent web service request. Using CA Service Virtualization validate, this constraint is no longer an issue.
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it_user533106 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Manager at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

For service virtualization, we had a lot of subsystems in our application; and we had lot of dependencies on the downstream applications. We extensively used service virtualization to reduce these dependencies, which could be due to readiness, or downstream applications having downtime. We also had few third-party subsystems whose technical support was not available during US night hours. This resulted in a complete loss of the offshore effort in India. This was hampering our release dates, which are very critical in the retail business. Missing a release has a directly proportional impact on revenue.

For web services testing (SoapUI/Rest API), we initially had our web services test cases automated using a custom built Groovy/Selenium/SoapUI framework. Though the framework was robust, it was difficult for us to maintain the automation scripts. When our customer bought CA Service Virtualization, we were able to move our 3000+ automation scripts to Service Virtualization scripts within 6 months while supporting new features and producing regular releases. This was commendable.

Training our folks on Service Virtualization was also pretty easy. We hired three Service Virtualization experts from the market, and were able to build a team of 14 Service Virtualization experts within three to four months. CA Service Virtualization is a very robust product and is highly configurable. This helped us to take more user stories, compared to the days when we were using our home grown framework.

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RM
Senior Software Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

CA Service Virtualization has enabled us to give the client demos in a very effective manner even when the environment is not available. It has also enabled us to shift-left.

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it_user518724 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

The release cycle in our project was initially three weeks and we wasted time waiting for environment availability, because the dependent services were still under development. In Agile, we need to get the test environment up and ready before the code completion.

With the help of virtual services developed by CA DevTest/Service Virtualization, we were able to create the virtual environment.

Now, the release cycle is reduced to two weeks, with a fully developed virtual service environment.

We developed virtual services for the HTTP and MQ protocols.

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it_user378432 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Analyst at a local government with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product has introduced a simple-to-use middleware tool, which helped our team conduct web-services testing.

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it_user378420 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation/Service Virtualisation Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
  • It reduces cost when we can replace expensive downstream systems.
  • It improves speed of testing when systems are not always available.
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it_user355623 - PeerSpot reviewer
Environment Support Manager Non-Production Environment at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The performance testing guys really depend heavily on us for their volume testing. The developers use Service Virtualization so that they can present a better product to QA. Sometimes by using it, we're able to implement something without even going to QA. We're bypassing QA.

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it_user122928 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Virtualization Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The major ones for our organization are MQ and SOA Middleware.

We had a lot of dependency on MQ message, where CAI helped to get the MQ details and create VS out of it.

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it_user222276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Ability to implement WSDL validations in the model using the built-in assertions.

The virtual services for Stress, Volume and Performance testing for applications which reduced the cost and also eliminated the dependencies of other applications and third party software.

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it_user558267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Supervisor Applications Programming at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has helped our organization in term of its availability and being able to create systems immediately. This happens in cases when our developers are held up or when we have to spend a lot of time switching between development and testing; that can really slow us down. This causes problems sometimes when we forget to disconnect and reconnect.

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it_user230391 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

With CA SV it took 2.10 minutes as opposed to 210 minutes for a total validation per scenario. This reduced the development cycle time and provided a product with no defects from a QA perspective.

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it_user778749 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees

I think it definitely helps us reduce time to market, and in terms of dollar savings it helps us quite a bit. There are many testing applications that reach out to third-party vendors where every transaction costs, and we are able to virtualize all of that and reduce the financial aspect.

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it_user104979 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Especially in QA/Test/Pre prod environment because of rapid changes and non availability, CA LISA is helpful in replacing the back-end with stub responses which can be helpful in pushing the QA life cycle much earlier in the overall development cycle.

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it_user558564 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Manager & System Architect, Abilities Lab at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It allows us to implement an Agile Shift Left development paradigm so that we can start testing things before all the pieces of are completed.

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it_user276375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Automation Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We've already created and switched over 10,000 test cases from manual to automated execution. Our QA team can now focus more on complex manual test cases.

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it_user351063 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We're fairly new adopters as we've only been doing this for less than a year. Because we didn't know what we were doing in the beginning, there was probably two months of ramp-up when we had to learn, and now we're getting more and more comfortable and we're getting pretty good at it.

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it_user558318 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Engineer at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It takes a bunch of different technologies and you can use it all in one solution, so I can work with my databases, my REST service calls, different web services; and I can use it all in one place. We do a lot of integration testing, and that takes care of it all.

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it_user515856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Consultant - CA DevTest at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This product helps us to:

  • Simulate broken/nonexistent systems
  • Avoid latency between project
  • Perform load bearing testing on unavailable external systems
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it_user511188 - PeerSpot reviewer
Programmer Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Helped us start performance testing much earlier in the STLC
  • Shortens the performance testing period, as there is minimal component-level dependency
  • Reduced cost per transaction in case of third-party virtualization
  • Reduced schedule dependency, resulting in more productivity
  • Enabled parallel development for the development team
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it_user227256 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Setting up a virtual service is very quick and hence is very easy to continue testing without waiting much.

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it_user224907 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have saved a lot of money and testing time by using CA SV. We started with Web Services and we've now covered all Mainframe, DB, MQ.

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it_user511368 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Enginer in Test at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Because I have been using this tool for web service virtualization, my development team relies heavily on me for the virtual service until the time the actual services are under development. This way, the tool provides a push to the agile methodology and has been great in achieving that.

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it_user346656 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Engineer @ Hybrid Integration Provider tribe at Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd.

There is a range of different kinds of simulations that we can create – capture/replay up to creation of real, elaborate simulations of the back end.

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it_user227262 - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Test Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We've always had problems with test environments. A lot of time was spent on preparing that level and we found a lot of problems with the environments. This ultimately, created a lot of contraints. When we started using Service Virtualization we were able to deploy the application on our test environment without any dependencies or constraints.

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it_user226335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Performance Specialist at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has lead to cost savings and helped improve the project life cycle. Teams are more streamlined and helpful not only for testers but even for developers.

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it_user797919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at ProKarma

It allows you to have a bunch of manual testers who can easily use the tool set, as well as hardcore devs or SDETs who know how to code. They can also use the tool set.

And, on the virtualization side, it really kind of helps you save money, because you can unblock yourself. If something's not ready, you can go and virtualize that, unblock your automation. We actually found in the last project that we should have used more virtualization, because our environment wasn't really stable. And so, we should have virtualized the things that we were automating so that we could demonstrate the automation wasn't the problem. That was always a question mark for people, and so that's a takeaway that I'll do again on the next project.

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it_user778797 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is easy to use, has a faster time to market, and provides flexibility. 

On our customer side, we have actually done a lot with this particular tool. It has helped a lot of teams to accelerate their testing and development, and saved a lot of money on the infrastructure side, setting up the sandbox side, etc.

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it_user551499 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, QA Practice at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The tool is currently mostly focused on SOA-related and performance testing. Its GUI automation testing is not that powerful compared to other tools, such as HPE UFT, and Selenium, in terms of, particularly, object recognition, smart identification, results repository, frameworks driven, integration with test management repositories, and ETL testing.

Today, customers look for one consolidated vendor to manage licenses and best usage under TEM (Test Environment Management) services.

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it_user558345 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enginer at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's allows us to work more globally across all our teams. Since the tool integrates with our services, we can do more.

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it_user378402 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product has not been used often by my company but rather by one of our customers. The customer has large dimensions and the product has been used both to compensate for the lack of components (one paid for the use or were not developed) and for performance tests. Its introduction, if maintained over time, should guarantee a huge time saver.

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it_user349302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We have issues where one of our dev services goes down, but we still have commitments we have to keep. We’re able to continue development and push for service for our clients even when other aspects fail, instead of causing delays.

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it_user350667 - PeerSpot reviewer
App Dev Manager at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The time savings it's provided us are huge. We've been able to have a reduction in headcount as well because it requires less staff to manage it. We're simply able to operate more efficiently from a time and human resources perspective.

From a technical use perspective, the improvement in our organization comes from being able to test situations before they arise in production.

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it_user6813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Hybrid/Dynamic Representational Visualization Service.

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it_user104976 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer with 10,001+ employees

The product made a huge impact in the market which includes many solutions which offer virtualization, performance testing, pathfinder, and functional testing. Development and testing became faster. It improved CSR and ROI's for our customers.

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it_user693234 - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Product Officer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We have many third-party dependencies. Situations we have to develop and test for include when they are down, or change their data, or don’t support certain conditions. This tool simulates them perfectly, but under our control to change and keep up 100%.

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it_user205152 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have saved a lot in terms of the time it takes to test data setup infrastructure and turn around time for testing.

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it_user107478 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect: Service Virtualization, DevOps and Automation at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Efforts and time saving

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it_user112830 - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance Test Lead with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use CA Service Virtualization to stub out various downstream systems, it helps to reduce the environment contention with other downstream testing teams.

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it_user528870 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Productivity has improved due to automation of system test cases.

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it_user558483 - PeerSpot reviewer
CIO at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We get things done better and faster. I think everybody benefits from that.

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it_user516042 - PeerSpot reviewer
SOA Test and Service Virtualization Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This product helps some of our customers achieve agility and delivery effectiveness.

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it_user122010 - PeerSpot reviewer
Industry Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • One stop solution to remove constraints. It supports most of the protocols used by different industries and they provide support to develop in scenarios where there is an exception.
  • Having this tool as part of the organization gives thought to how individuals can efficiently remove dependencies and reduce time to market.
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it_user104985 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Consultant at a reseller with 51-200 employees
We are a reseller of this product so this isn't really relevant for me, but our customers use our stubs for deployment of their real production applications. View full review »
it_user570960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lisa Virtualization Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It helped in simulating the environment for testing for a very tedious project, which otherwise would have involved lot of manhours to test.

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it_user224853 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Due to the virtual services, the overall release cycle became shorter and it also saved us a lot of money.

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it_user225759 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It has helped manual and performance testing teams to complete their testing ahead of schedule.

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it_user638730 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Test Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Different execution methods of virtual services. Its easy implementation is really helpful when changing the behavior of virtual services.

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