The importance of virtualization and simulation
Applications and environments have become increasingly complex, and the rate of releases across the application landscape has skyrocketed. At the same time, testing and development teams are expected to increase the rate of delivery while ensuring that extremely high levels of quality are being achieved.
Not only does this mean that effective and comprehensive end-to-end test automation is needed, but that testing needs to be done early and done often to capture potential functional and performance issues when they are easier and less costly to address – and certainly before they make their way into production!
In order to do this, testers and developers need access to APIs, microservices, and test environments to accurately and comprehensively build and test everything from early-stage development all the way through full, and often very complex, end-to-end business processes.
The challenge comes in that those services and environments are not always available and may be costly to leverage, resulting in unwanted delays and higher than necessary costs in testing. Luckily, there is a solution to address these challenges …
Enter Tricentis Simulation
As the newest offering available through Tosca, Tricentis Simulation brings next-gen service virtualization capabilities to Tricentis customers. By combining the power of Orchestrated Service Virtualization (OSV) with our modern API Simulation solution, we are enabling teams to simulate APIs and create virtual test environments independent of unavailable or costly services.
By facilitating early-stage testing, Tricentis Simulation seamlessly integrates into broader test automation strategies, ensuring quality from the outset.
Key benefits of API Simulation:
- Eliminate testing delays: API Simulation allows teams to simulate dependent components that may not yet be available, ensuring continuous development without interruptions.
- Cost reduction: By virtualizing complex and expensive API services, organizations can minimize infrastructure and testing overhead costs.
- Continuous testing: Stable access to virtualized environments enables teams to conduct continuous testing without waiting for dependent systems to become available.
- Early issue detection: API Simulation supports contract testing, allowing teams to identify API issues before they affect the broader system, thereby reducing risks early in the development cycle.
- Cross-team collaboration: Developers can create mock services as code, which QA teams can utilize for functional and load testing, fostering better collaboration across departments.
With Tricentis Simulation enhancing and optimizing the overall approach to test automation, organizations can level up how they manage testing and development, driving toward true continuous testing.
Add this access to all the additional capabilities of Tosca cloud and the new, streamlined upgrade process made available as part of Tosca 2024.1, and there has never been a better time to evaluate upgrading Tosca and taking advantage of all the features and benefits we are delivering to provide enhanced efficiency, increased cost savings, and improved software quality.
To explore these transformative capabilities further, we would encourage you to join our upcoming webinar, Reduce testing costs for Gen AI and test environments with Tosca’s next-gen API Simulation. In this session, we will explore:
- How to use Tricentis Simulation to test earlier and reduce the costs of testing generative AI and other complex applications
- How to build virtual services through both standard methods and a new AI-focused “learning” function
- How Tosca customers can access and start using Tricentis Simulation and other Tosca cloud capabilities
Register here and we’ll look forward to having you join us at the session!
In the meantime, if you would like to learn more about how Tricentis Simulation can help advance your testing and quality initiatives, request a Tosca demo today!