Micro Focus Service Virtualization Reviews

What is our primary use case?

We implement this product for companies in the banking industry. We use virtualization to simulate and validate data models of the core banking system for the purpose of testing. When one application is implemented and accesses the testing phase, the test environment needed to connect to external/legacy system to fulfill test coverage. Test cases might cover both functionality and performance which sometimes external system faces the limitation to support. It is difficult to make test environments connect to the mainframe with required test data already in place, so we planned to use… more »

What other advice do I have?

The advice I would give to a client who is looking into purchase Micro Focus Virtualization would be that they have to know the clear benefits they will get and the concept of service virtualization. They have to know what shall be the replacement on which situations and the practice to do it. Also, they should to conduct a feasibility study and evaluate the ROI in a particular area. Then if they are clear on the purpose, do a proof of concept. If all are done, we suggested going ahead with the purchasing. The implementation is quite easy and updating is simple. On a scale from one to ten…