# Broadcom Service Virtualization Reviews **Vendor:** Broadcom **Category:** [Service Virtualization Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/service-virtualization) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 3 ## About Broadcom Service Virtualization Service Virtualization simulates unavailable systems across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), allowing developers, testers, integration, and performance teams to work in parallel for faster delivery and higher application quality and reliability. ## Broadcom Service Virtualization Reviews ### 1. A tool for developing virtual services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Broadcom Service Virtualization?** It is an essential tool in software development by enabling both developers and testers in interactions within a system.It focuses on simplifying complex test environments, supports automated testing and integrates with various development tools.It is praised for ease of use and feels that the tool offers more advanced features for complex simulation.It is used for creation of virtual services that behave like real services.It is an reliable and powerful tool useful for large enterprises.It is frequently used for developing the services and it has gained huge customer support. **What do you dislike about Broadcom Service Virtualization?** Initial Setup is time consuming process. The major drawback is it is costlier when we wanted to use advanced features.The tool is powerful but ofter consideres complex to set and use effectively.For large enterprises the cose is justified but for small to mid enterprises the licensing cost is not budget friendly.Any change in the service behavior requires updates to the virtual services which is time consuming. **What problems is Broadcom Service Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has implemented advanced features which make it reliable and powerful. It also supports HTTP,HTTPS,TCP and other protocol. It is lightweight and easy to configure. ### 2. Catch the defects before it is too late **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Broadcom Service Virtualization?** One can test in virtual services instead of production services. Integration testing can be done much earlier, reduced testing cost. **What do you dislike about Broadcom Service Virtualization?** None. May be the skills of testers. Many of the existing testers are not skilled in service virtualization or they prefer the old traditional way of developing and testing. A proper change management is required before service virtualization becomes the new culture. **What problems is Broadcom Service Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time and money in application development and enhancement. Service virtualization provides the flexibility of testing early and removing the bottlenecks much before. Without this, the dev team must wait for an almost ready and deployed product to start functional, Integration and other testing efforts. If they find any error (which is OK at this stage also), it is already late to fix. ### 3. Good Industry Standard Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2018 **What do you like best about Broadcom Service Virtualization?** The tool is widely available and one of market leaders in service virtualization. It's easier to use and also compatible in most cases. It helps to save money for not needing to have an actual servers for the applications. **What do you dislike about Broadcom Service Virtualization?** One of the things I don't really like is the lack of scalability. As the usage increases, it doesn't have an effective way to scale up to meet the growing needs. Also, it's not compatible for some hardwares and applications. You can't virtualize anything with this. **What problems is Broadcom Service Virtualization solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving the problems of spending a lot of money to buy the real hardware and software to create an end to end testing environment. ## Broadcom Service Virtualization Discussions - [What is meant by service virtualization?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-meant-by-service-virtualization) - [What are the service virtualization tools?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-service-virtualization-tools) - [What is the purpose of service virtualization?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-purpose-of-service-virtualization) - [View Broadcom Service Virtualization pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/broadcom-service-virtualization/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-06-15+12%3A23%3A18+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=70563873-5d03-4584-845e-86cf3efd1581&secure%5Btoken%5D=df6088df7a8648e4b881d14c7436d5b7e516d1b97bb3d7b2cf0de71991965daf&format=llm_user) ## Broadcom Service Virtualization Features **Functionality** - Integrations - Extensibility - Test Customization **Functionality** - Test Coverage - System Capture - False Positives - Simulation Quality **Management** - Automation - Processes and Workflow - Reporting **Usability ** - Remediation Suggestions - Collaboration - Ease of Configuration **Agentic AI - Continuous Integration** - Autonomous Task Execution - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top Broadcom Service Virtualization Alternatives - [Pantheon](https://www.g2.com/products/pantheon/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (586 reviews) - [Postman](https://www.g2.com/products/postman/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,742 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,298 reviews)