MessageQueue support: Our infrastructure was designed with the ability to detach client systems via MessageQueue queue managers.

The Parasoft Service Virtualization product is very user friendly. While there are other products in the market that achieve similar results, most all are highly technical and require a fully technical background to execute. Parasoft's product is easier to operate, and drives the user to make the right decisions and complete the work efficiently. I'm not at all implicating that the product is not technical, because if you are a technical engineer with the background in scripting and working with such products, you can go 'under the hood' of the front end user interface and be as technical with Parasoft as any of their competitors.

I would have to say that the Environment Manager (EM) component is one of the cleanest, easiest, and most impacting part of the application. The graphical interface of the EM screen allows you to setup and configure a blueprint of your environments and within this same application, you can setup the EM screen to drive the activation/deactivation of the virtualized components. With one simple click, you can run the LIVE application/environment, or you can run the virtual instance, or you can drive the application to return positive or negative results. You can also determine a delay (which is perfect for Performance Testing) to enable the virtualized response to wait X seconds to respond. You can even set it to respond in random seconds. The whole EM component gives a feel that you are behind the wheel, and you can see the whole road. Kudos to Parasoft for implementing this as part of their virtualization and SOATest solutions.

The solution has a lot of great features that we are able to take advantage of.

The initial setup is quite easy to manage.

The stability is good.

We've found the scalability to be very good.

Virtualizing a component or service which does not exist or is under development.

- Broad, flexible support for literal, XML, JSON requests & responses 

- Broad, flexible support for Protocol (HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, MQ & for other traffic types such as SQL Queries), Transport & Message Formats (i.e. EDI messages)

- Ability to create data driven responders

- Recording traffic by acting as a proxy and replaying the recorded traffic for quick and easy virtual asset creation.

- Virtualize fills the gap by providing access to their behavior by removing dependency of databases, mainframes, third-party systems, etc.

- No Limitations on Traffic hits per day.

• Ease of building service virtualization: Either by recording an existing data flow which can be replayed or by setting up a service simulation based on a WSDL (SOAP) or JSON schemas (REST). The product generates usable templates. Developers do not have to spend much time to set it up.
• Ease of deployment of the virtualized services: Either by graphical user interfaces for manual deployment or using the provided API for automated deployment. The latter is necessary for integrating in an automated deployment pipeline.

• Extensibility of the product in order to customize as and where needed, in case proprietary protocols or message formats are used in the customer's environment.

• Quick generation of virtualized services.
• Reuse of common data in other fields as test automation (using SOATest) or test data management.
• Low technical knowledge required to start using the tool.
• Environment Management gives organizations a powerful visual interface to manage and create virtualized service.

Quick generation of virtual assets from service definitions such as WSDL documents

Extend the basic functionality of virtual assets using scripting

Environment Manager providing a clear user interface for environment provisioning and configuration

Docker image available for seamless Continuous Delivery and Continuous Testing integration

• Easy testing environment creation.
• No need to have deep development/infrastructure knowledge.
• Really intuitive interface.

There are several features of Parasoft Virualize worth mentioning, but some of them are:

1. Ease of creating message responders

2. Using custom transports, message formats and tools

3. Working with message proxies

4. Customizing request matching and correlations

1. Ease of creating working bank-end web services

2. Ability to customize individual responses

3. Minimum knowledge required for setup

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