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Service Virtualization testing services
Apexon helps enterprises leverage Service Virtualization in their development and test environments to get higher quality software to market in less time, for less cost

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the challenge

Service Virtualization Eliminates the Obstacles that Slow Product Cycle Time

Unavailable and dependent systems due to hardware limitations, maintenance windows, access restrictions, missing code, and more — all create significant constraints for delivery teams.

Service Virtualization models software environments and resources during application development and testing to eliminate a lot of these constraints. According to a recent Gartner survey of companies with more than 500 employees that deployed Service Virtualization: over 25% doubled test execution rates, over 33% cut test cycle times in half, and almost half reduced defects by at least 40%.

However, as with any innovation, implementing Service Virtualization has challenges, e.g., incompatibility of 3rd-party components, API management, training requirements, storage and memory constraints, failure notification, and recoverability that need to be resolved quickly and efficiently.

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What We Do

Service Virtualization with the Latest Digital Technologies

Apexon has been leading the way with the latest methodologies and tools for digital testing and QA for over 18 years. We help enterprises leverage all the benefits of Service Virtualization in their development and test environments by helping them:

  • Quickly simulate and manage test environments to accelerate cycle times and reduce costs
  • Take advantage of the industry’s leading Service Virtualization tools.
  • Leverage a wide range of industry-specific accelerator kits
  • Create a Service Virtualization Portal that allows a tester to consume any virtual service
  • Conduct parallel development and testing using live-like environments
  • Use existing app development and integration platforms to reduce the need for lab infrastructure and software
  • Increase their use of test automation
  • Get round-the-clock access to service endpoints
  • Reduce the need for third-party systems for non-production use

Our Offering

End-to-End Service Virtualization Capabilities

Apexon can help you navigate the most difficult digital challenges with our Service Virtualization Services.

Some of these include:

API Performance Testing & 3rd Party Sandboxing
API Performance
Testing & 3rd Party
Sandboxing

API Load Testing
API Load
Testing

Long-term Automated Testing
Long-term
Automated Testing

Automation of Different Testing Scenarios in Various Message Types
Automation of Different
Testing Scenarios in
Various Message Types

API Extreme Case Testing
API Extreme
Case Testing

Failure Case Testing
Failure Case
Testing

Security Testing
Security
Testing

Testing When Components Are Not Available
Testing When
Components Are
Not Available

Proof of Concept Testing Before Building
Proof of Concept
Testing Before Building

API Integration Testing
API Integration
Testing

THE OUTCOMES WE DELIVER

RESILIENT & EFFICIENT DIGITAL APPLICATIONS

Apexon Service Virtualization services deliver significant business advantages:

Service Virtualization approach

Our methodical approach to Service Virtualization significantly reduces test environment setup and configuration time/cost and ensures accelerated test cycles

comprehensive test environment with 24/7 access

We provide a comprehensive test environment with 24/7 access with extended test scenarios, coverage, and more

reduces business risk to end-users

Better control over the quantity and quality of tests reduces business risk to end-users

accelerated testing and compressed feedback cycles

Via accelerated testing and compressed feedback cycles

Our methodology

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Our process

A comprehensive approach to Service Virtualization

Our Service Virtualization capabilities are built to cover your end-to-end needs – from strategy and assessment through deployment and maintenance:

Strategy & Assessment
Strategy
& Assessment
  • Assess your organization’s IT landscape
  • Identify the best targets for service virtualization

Strategy & Assessment
Plan
Development
  • Reduce your configuration time
  • Setup efficient test environment
  • Eliminate interface dependencies

Strategy & Assessment
Tool Feasibility
& ROI Analysis
  • Select the best tools for your needs
  • Validate performance and ROI

Deployment & Maintenance
Deployment
& Maintenance
  • Deploy and test virtual services
  • Maintain and refine for optimal performance

OUR EXPERTISE

Expertise with the leading service virtualization tools

Parasoft Virtualize - create, deploy, and manage simulated test environments

CA Service Virtualization

DevTest with virtual services

IBM Rational Test Virtualization

Micro Focus Service Virtualization

any proxy service virtualization

WireMock is a simulator for HTTP-based APIs

soapui service virtualization for testing and development purposes

Key
Partnership

qmetry

The Apexon – QMetry partnership can benefit any organization looking to accelerate its software test cycles and enhance the quality of its digital initiatives. We can you help identify the right environments in which to deploy QMetry, ensure seamless deployment and integration of the tools, and train and certify your users on it to make your Test/QA organization more self-sufficient with the tools.

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Why Apexon

Use of API
Virtualization

To reduce microservices testing time, compress feedback cycles, and enhance Continuous CI/CD Testing to ensure you’re meeting system requirements and delivering stable integrations

Support for Dev-Ops
Transformation

Use API virtualization to simulate dependencies and expand your automation footprint

Iterative
Design

Enabling new features in a virtual environment before investing entirely in them

Accelerated User
Interface Testing

We emulate standard UI integrations to perform UI testing anytime, anywhere without interruption

Tailored Service
Virtualization Strategies

Expertise in tools such as Tricentis and other accelerators enables us to offer an enterprise-wide Service Virtualization Adoption Strategy including detailed assessments followed by Planning, Virtualization Tool Feasibility, ROI Analysis, and Virtual Services Development and Maintenance

RECOGNIZED BY
INDUSTRY ANALYSTS
Recognized by many of the leading industry analysts including:
NelsonHall

Leader in NelsonHall’s NEAT vendor evaluation for Next-Generation Software Testing Services

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Gartner

Midtier, Full or Subset IT Services Provider in Gartner Competitive Landscape : Mobile Application Testing Services

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Forrester

Representative Vendor in Forrester Vendor Landscape for Continuous Testing Services for Agile & DevOps Environments

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FAQ’s – Service Visualization

Service virtualization is a process that simulates the behavior of complex dependent systems / components, thereby creating a virtual service that can be used instead of the live systems. By creating virtual versions of unavailable or expensive components, it enables continuous testing, reduces dependencies, and accelerates the development process. This approach ensures that testing can proceed even when certain services are not yet available, enhancing efficiency and reducing time-to-market.

Service virtualization tools create virtual services that mimic the behavior of real components in a software ecosystem. These tools capture and reproduce the interactions between components, allowing testers to simulate various scenarios without needing the actual systems / components. This enables comprehensive testing under realistic conditions, helping teams identify issues early in the development cycle.

In agile development, where frequent iterations and continuous testing are crucial, service virtualization plays a vital role. It enables teams to test integrated systems without waiting for all components to be available. By virtualizing services, development and testing can occur in parallel, speeding up the testing process, increasing release velocity and ensuring higher quality releases.

When selecting service virtualization tools, we need to consider features like ease of integration with existing development and test environments, support for a wide range of protocols, the ability to simulate complex behaviors, and robust reporting capabilities. Tools that offer user-friendly interfaces and scalability options are also valuable for accommodating growing project needs.

Service virtualization reduces testing costs by eliminating the need for physical infrastructure and third-party services during testing. By using virtual services, organizations can avoid the expenses associated with accessing real systems, especially those that are costly or difficult to replicate. This approach also minimizes downtime, further reducing costs associated with delayed testing.

Yes, service virtualization is highly effective for performance testing. It allows testers to simulate high traffic volumes and various load conditions by creating virtual services that mimic real-world scenarios. This helps in identifying performance bottlenecks and ensuring that the application can handle peak loads without compromising functionality.

From Our Service Virtualization Customers

Through our partnership with Apexon, we have been able to achieve many goals. One is to get our platform built with speed by helping our engineering teams and then we have also achieved our infrastructure goals of ISO certifications. Apexon team is helping us deploy the platform even faster from two or three times per week to five or six times a week.
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“Apexon has pioneered all the aspects of providing excellent quality for our products. They have adapted our development environment to a custom Agile testing methodology that has allowed us to quickly build and market our products.”
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