Best Service Virtualization Software
Service virtualization software allows developers to test their applications by simulating various components of the eventual production environment. This software serves as a stand-in for elements that developers often have limited access to during testing, such as application programming interface (API) connections. By running tests in an environment that emulates complex interactions between real-world systems, development teams can find relevant issues early in the development process. This keeps software delivery efficient and streamlined while preemptively solving problems that would otherwise lead to delays.
Service virtualization software is closely related to automation testing software, and often includes automation testing capabilities. However, automation testing automates the execution of specific test parameters, whereas service virtualization enables tests to be performed by mimicking real-world system behavior.
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Best Service Virtualization Software At A Glance
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Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations to build, test, and manage APIs at scale. With Postman, teams collaborate efficiently
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- 38% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
55,322 Twitter followers
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Create, deploy, and manage virtual test environments—anytime, anywhere. During software testing you are often constrained by limited access to real data and live services in your test environment. Th
- 71% Enterprise
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ReadyAPI allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests of RESTful, SOAP, Kafka and other web services in one centralized interface inside your CI/CD
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- 46% Enterprise
- 40% Mid-Market
16,554 Twitter followers
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Beeceptor is a mock server and service virtualization platform that helps QA teams simulate APIs, increase coverate, remove backend dependencies and shift left, and test integrations earlier in the de
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- 53% Small-Business
- 27% Mid-Market
175 Twitter followers
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Mockoon is a powerful, open-source platform designed to streamline API mocking processes. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools tailored to meet the needs of developers, QA engineers, and teams wor
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- 44% Small-Business
- 31% Enterprise
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WireMock Cloud is AI-native API simulation platform for simulating APIs and services with speed and precision. It enables teams to accelerate development and testing through robust, stateful API simul
- 50% Mid-Market
- 30% Enterprise
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Service Virtualization simulates unavailable systems across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), allowing developers, testers, integration, and performance teams to work in parallel for faster d
- 67% Enterprise
- 33% Small-Business
61,734 Twitter followers
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Micro Focus Service Virtualization is an application simulation software designed to keep users on schedule and focused on service quality.
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Small-Business
21,629 Twitter followers
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MockLab is an API simulator that helps software teams test faster and better.
- 67% Mid-Market
- 33% Small-Business
1 Twitter followers
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The world easiest & fastest tool belts to mock your APIs|
- 50% Mid-Market
- 50% Small-Business
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BlazeMeter, a comprehensive continuous testing platform that boosts your software delivery speed and quality, specializes in performance testing, functional UI testing, API testing and monitoring, alo
- Information Technology and Services
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- 52% Mid-Market
- 36% Enterprise
5,090 Twitter followers
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Hosted, high-performance, API simulations for your development environment and CI pipeline
- 100% Small-Business
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IBM DevOps Test Virtualization software enables early and frequent testing in the development lifecycle. It removes dependencies by virtualizing part or all of an application or database so software t
- 100% Small-Business
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mountebank is the first open source tool to provide cross-platform, multi-protocol test doubles over the wire. Simply point your application under test to mountebank instead of the real dependency, an
- 100% Small-Business
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Requestly is a modern and powerful companion for API Development and Testing. It is an open-source tool purpose-built to speed up and simplify API development workflow for developers and QAs. It is a
- 40% Mid-Market
- 40% Small-Business
1,313 Twitter followers
