Scenario: While teams may want to automate testing as soon as possible, creation of automated test scripts is often delayed until everything is available in a test lab – typically late in the development cycle or perhaps not until after the actual release of the application software.

Service virtualization makes the unavailable available for testing purposes.

• Create virtual components from development specifications.
• Record the functionality and behavior of the application using virtual services.
• Execute automated tests at any layer in the application using virtual services to simulate functionality under development.