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Chapterlead Parasoft & DATPROF with 51-200 employees
Consultant
Great tool for virtualizing (web)services

I’m a frequent user of Parasoft products, amongst those products is Virtualize. Virtualize is a tool that enables me to create virtualized services. In my case, most of these have been webservices. Virtualize isn’t limited to webservices only as it supports other kind of services as well. One of the best features of Virtualize (and all Parasoft products) is that it is very open. Meaning that if the feature you seek isn’t supported out of the box, the Eclipse IDE most of the time will have a solution available for you. If this isn't available either, there is always the open API which can be used to build in your own solution. This allows you to alter the tool specific for your needs.

At this moment Virtualize is able to be used in a Continuous Delivery environment. Service Virtualization enables agile teams to start more early and shorten the time to market, combined with a Continuous Delivery solution it enhances this strength. Therefore, in my opinion this is one of the best advantages for Virtualize. Other great advantages are:

  • Generating stubs from Logfiles, WSDL’s and or code
  • Ability to alter responses based on one or multiple attributes of your liking
  • Wizards to help you get started with any stub you would like to create
  • It easily can be scaled to any setting you like

There is one big disadvantage in my opinion:

  • Lacks the ability to handle asynchronous webservices via the wizards

Disclosure: This review is a personal view on the product and is independent from my employer.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Partner / Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
No need to have deep development/infrastructure knowledge.

What is most valuable?

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

What needs improvement?

Its business model of perpetual licensing sales is outdated; they should deliver it as SaaS.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using it for three years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

I have not encountered any remarkable deployment issues.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I have not encountered any remarkable stability issues.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

This product is too expensive when scaling.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

Customer service is 6/10.

Technical Support:

Technical support is 6/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

I did not previously use a different solution.

How was the initial setup?

Initial setup was straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

A vendor team implemented. Their level of expertise was 8/10.

What was our ROI?

It’s difficult to provide ROI information, because it depends on the costumer and how it uses the product. With this product, it probably takes at least six months to see ROI (vendor says 3 weeks).

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The vendor sells perpetual licenses; could use SaaS. Price is kind of high, but that’s normal because it’s a new, trending solution.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

Before choosing this product, we evaluated it against CA and IBM solutions.

What other advice do I have?

No remarkable advice; solution is really useful and should be adopted if the budget allows it.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Test Analyst/Test lead at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
Helped us in accelerating application delivery by allowing us to test early.

Valuable Features

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

Improvements to My Organization

Parasoft Virtualize helped us in accelerating application delivery by allowing us to test early. We were given an application under test when some of the major back-end components were not available, apart from the service contracts being ready. Using SV allowed us to expose defects when they were fastest, easiest and least costly to resolve. We were able to complete system testing, and resolve interface integration issues even before the real back-end system was made available. Our organisation was able to shift left using Parasoft Virtualize.

Room for Improvement

Performance enhancement for large payloads.

Use of Solution

1 year and going

Deployment Issues

None

Stability Issues

None

Scalability Issues

None

Customer Service and Technical Support

The technical support is very good.

Initial Setup

The initial set up for Parasoft Virtualize is very straightforward. All the latest updates are available on the web site and a great user guide to help through the installation.

ROI

With respect to ROI, the factor worth mentioning is that we found more than 500 defects as a part of early testing. It saved good money, if these were identified in later stages, identified loopholes early and allowed to test scenarios which otherwise would be impossible to test in an integrated environment.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Automation Test Coordinator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Vendor
Allowed us to create a simulated environment and test the code before entering the testing cycle.

Valuable Features

1. Ease of creating working bank-end web services

2. Ability to customize individual responses

3. Minimum knowledge required for setup

4. Always ON-LINE

Improvements to My Organization

Parasoft Virtualization allowed us to create a simulated environment and test the code before entering the testing cycle. Also, increase testing cycles without impacting any major line of business and back-end components. Furthermore, it provide us with an environment that is always available for QA, Automation, and Performance.

Room for Improvement

An area of improvements would be Data Repository, as in current stage it is difficult to manage data from this aspect. Searching, modifying and updating data is a tedious task. In addition, importing to the repository function is

Use of Solution

5 years

Deployment Issues

No issues with deployment

Stability Issues

Encountered in earlier versions < 9.8

Scalability Issues

No issues

Customer Service and Technical Support

Customer Service:

9/10

Technical Support:

9/10

Initial Setup

Initial setup was straightforward

ROI

100%

Other Solutions Considered

Yes we have evaluated Selenium.

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