Tricentis Tosca
Service Virtualization
Tricentis Service Virtualization simulates the behavior of dependent systems that are difficult to access or configure for testing. This removes the single biggest barrier to Continuous Testing: access to a complete test environment with all dependent systems configured with the appropriate configuration, functionality and test data.
What Is Service Virtualization?
Service Virtualization is a simulation technology that lets you automatically execute tests even when the Application Under Test’s dependent system components cannot be properly accessed or configured for testing. By simulating these dependencies, you can ensure that your tests will encounter the appropriate dependency behavior and data each and every time that they execute.
Service virtualization is commonly used when tests need to interact with dependent system components that are:
- Unreliable, evolving, or not yet completed
- Beyond your scope of control
- Not readily available for testing
- Challenging to provision/configure for testing
- Not feasible to use for automated regression testing
Benefits of Tricentis Service Virtualization
Tricentis Service Virtualization Features
Tricentis Tosca simulates the dependent component behavior that’s required to execute your tests. We record the messages exchanged between the AUT and its constrained dependencies— automatically learning the expected interactions by listening in on their “conversations.” Object-oriented modeling of messages eliminates the “maintenance trap” of conventional approaches.
Automated Message Validation
Complex business processes often involve thousands, if not millions, of messages. Manually checking these messages is simply not feasible. OSV can automatically flag messages that are improperly formed or sent in the incorrect order.
Test-Driven Service Virtualization
In theory, service virtualization is all about removing constraints for software testing. In reality, many testers have found that service virtualization falls short of its promise to end delays and provide direct, easy control over the test environment—especially for stateful tests interacting with multiple dependencies. As a result, service virtualization fails to take hold in the organization.
Tricentis provides “test-driven service virtualization”: a new approach to service virtualization that places the tester at the center of service virtualization asset creation and management. Test-driven service virtualization focuses on helping you rapidly simulate the exact behavior you need for a test.
Tricentis Tosca’s test-driven service virtualization makes it simple for testers to create and manage service virtualization scenarios. You can leverage the same business view developed during API testing to create and manage service virtualization scenarios. This allows service virtualization scenarios to be maintained by the broader team.
Supported Technologies for Service Virtualization
Definition Languages
WSDL
XSD
WADL
JSON Schema
Swagger
RAML
OData Definition
CopyBooks
Transport Protocols
HTTP(s)
JMS
Rabbit MQ
Active MQ
TIBCO EMS
AMQP (Advanced Message Queueing Protocol)
IBM MQ
OData Standard Protocol
MLLP
MS MQ
KAFKA
sFTP
Windows File System Folders
Message Formats
XML
JSON
Text
URL-Encoded Parameters
Form-Data
Binary Content
Multipart Attachments
MTOM Attachments
HL7v2
HL7 v3
COBOL
Standards
SOAP
REST
ISO 20022
FIXML
SWIFT
Fixed Length
SEPA
CICS
ESBs & Gateways
Tibco
Mulesoft
IBM
Oracle
Microsoft
KAFKA
CICS Mainframe Gateways
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