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Tricentis API Simulation enables you to deliver complete and realistic test environments by simulating microservices that are out of your control or unavailable, allowing you to shift testing left and ensure quality at the earliest stages of development to accelerate delivery.
As demands on testing and development teams to deliver faster with higher degrees of quality increase, simulation and virtualization is critical to advance test automation into a true state of continuous testing. With the power of Tricentis API Simulation’s easy-to-use workflows, users can rapidly create complete and realistic test environments to test earlier, test faster, and improve software quality for optimized delivery.
End-to-end test automation can be difficult when environments have unstable, unavailable, or costly API dependencies. Build and deploy intelligent, stateful simulated API services, reducing IT infrastructure costs associated with your ever-changing API landscape and enabling on-demand, anytime testing.
API Simulation enabled contract testing ensures your APIs perform as expected by validating them from your consumer’s perspective. Detect potential changes or failures early and prevent disruptions in your environment by verifying API contracts before they break and before they impact your consumers.
Simulate realistic response times replicating high volumes of traffic from mobile apps, web portals, and overloaded APIs, allowing you to perform large-scale performance and load testing without the need of your full performance testing environment.
Regardless of coding experience, services can be created as code or codeless. Dev teams can benefit from early-stage code mocking and those same artifacts can be leveraged by the QA team as model-based objects in Tosca, allowing unified workflows between developer and QA audiences and simplified maintenance through Tosca’s proven model-based technology.
Easily simulate interactions with dependent components that are not available, not yet implemented, or still evolving.
Stabilize access to your dependent systems and testing infrastructure so that developers and testers can continue to work.
Leverage easy-to-use workflows to create complete simulation scenarios (RR pairs) and functional API test cases.
Simulate costly API services and virtualize complex test environments to reduce testing overhead and maintenance.
Identify potential issues early to mitigate risks and improve software quality.
Leverage a shared environment for development and testing teams to work together.
API Simulation allows users to quickly and easily build powerful mock APIs and virtualized environments to begin testing before dependent services are available while lowering IT infrastructure costs.
Leveraging the power of Tosca’s model-based approach in your simulations and virtualizations allows you to streamline the creation and management of virtual services, reduce manual intervention, improve collaboration across teams, and instantly propagate changes across all affected virtual services. The result will be faster testing cycles, better quality, and lower costs in managing complex, distributed systems.
Our AI focused learning mode automatically builds virtual services based on observed traffic, ensuring that virtual services are available before you need them. Simply deploy a learning connection and all observed traffic will be converted into virtual services.
Capture real-time API traffic from live systems with both synthetic monitoring and observation of API events. Network captures are presented in .HAR format which can be leveraged in other Tricentis tools as well as provided from external sources. Quickly convert traffic into virtual services, contract tests, and externalize payloads into files for simplified maintenance.
Leverage an embedded data source to enable stateful behavior in services without added complexity, allowing persistent state storage across runs. This approach provides the ability to support advanced use cases that go beyond basic mocking to model real business logic without needing a dedicated virtual environment.
The virtualization agent infrastructure can be deployed on Windows, Mac, or Linux and is available as a service with Docker. This simplifies the deployment challenge typically associated with service virtualization. Virtual servers can be easily integrated into your CI pipeline so that virtualization can be seamlessly leveraged as a function of your continuous testing process.
Built from the ground up to seamlessly integrate with Tosca Cloud, users will enjoy the flexibility of on-premises or cloud-based workflows, enabling federated access to the technology across the organization without having to install heavy infrastructure.
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