Service Virtualization is the latest trend in the software industry leveraged throughout the application development lifecycle. It has thrived recently due to its ability to address numerous constraints faced while developing and testing a software product. It can break through delays, costs and risks imposed by dependent IT resources that are unavailable or inaccessible for development and testing of any enterprise application development or integration projects. Service Virtualization eliminates system dependency constraints by 'virtualizing' or capturing and modeling the target system's dynamic behavior, performance and data so that it reacts and responds in the same way as the live system. Service Virtualization ensures test and development teams have concurrent, all time access to realistic test environments to shorten their release cycles. Costs for test labs, responders, and stubs are dramatically reduced, and quality is improved by testing more scenarios faster and earlier in the lifecycle

Service virtualization Mocking Continuous testing Parallel development Unavailable and inaccessible software Software dependency systems Dependency constraints Constrained software applications Software application downtime Test data challenges Infrastructure cost reduction Testing Third party system dependency Stubbing