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Service Virtualization 10.7 is now GA!

By John Clinton
We are excited to announce that Service Virtualization/DevTest - SV 10.7 is GA! With the release of Service Virtualization/DevTest 10.7, we have improved our Cloud and container support, continue to enhance our support to integrate Service Virtualization as part of your CI/CD pipeline with our API and Jenkins Plugin enhancements, and improve Developers and Agile teams to adopt Service Virtualization with new Selective Match, SV4dot net, and GraphQL Application Test Step. To learn more about the capabilities in 10.7, check out our release notes . You can also click on the features below to learn more about each capability. RELEASE NOTES ...
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Virtual Service Catalog Enhancement - SV 10.6

By Giridharan Jagadeesan
It is costly to reinvent the wheel again. The major concern in the developer and testing community is reusability of test assets . It is always a challenge to know whether a virtual service (VS) is already created, who created it and to download already created VS. The Virtual Service Catalog has been completely redesigned (the look and feel) so that it is easier to use. We made it easier by providing download VS option (mar format) which your teams can use to share and reuse the assets. It provides information about who deployed the VS, functional/performance VSEs and config details of VS. Also, admin now has the ability to restrict user columns. ...
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API Enhancement - SV 10.6

By Giridharan Jagadeesan
One of the key challenges for our customers is to measure the usage of VSE especially that is inactive. This is vital as the usage metrics clearly depicts how the teams are using SV and also help them in analysing how SV is a real cost saver. A new v3 API simplifies and enhances the user experience; by using this single endpoint you can fetch the inactive VSE metrics without the need to logging into the Workstation or the Portal. With this brand-new API, you can also fetch the active VSE metrics. Metrics of Active/Inactive VSEs such as - List of VSEs, VSE name, Hostname, Lifetime transaction count, Up time List of VS, VS name, Status, Transaction count ...
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Smarter Mocking: IntelliJ Idea IDE with SV 10.6

By Giridharan Jagadeesan
Developers prefer to be able to conduct all of their work directly from their IDE. If they have dependencies and need to create virtual services, they want to be able to manage these from their IDE as well. Virtual services are designed to help developers emulate the missing, unavailable, or costly components or systems so that testing can happen early, errors can be identified quickly, and fixes can happen long before issues enter production systems. With Service Virtualization/DevTest 10.6, we have developed IntelliJ Plugin to provide support for developers to create virtual services from the IntelliJ IDE. With this plugin, you can do the following: ...
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VSE and Infrastructure Usage ROI Report

By Giridharan Jagadeesan
Return on Investment (ROI) is a key focus for any organisation. ROI is a performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment. Our customers always needed to know the ROI in very detail, that is, at VSE level. Without such intricacies, the customers were having difficulty to prove SV as a real cost saver. A new report that details the cost saving based on their VSE and infrastructure usage is available to generate for ROI analysis. ROI calculation is based on your organisation's use of Service Virtualization. To save cost, you could either replace a real system with a virtual service or avoid paying for each transaction. This ROI ...
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Expand Service Virtualization Across the Enterprise

By Jeffrey Hughes
It’s crunch time and you’ve only got a few hours to test a new payment feature added to your massively successful retail web site. Any mistake could be catastrophic for the company’s revenues…and your job. You know you need to test this functionality prior to launch and yet you dread having to build a new virtual service to test this feature. If only someone else had previously created a service to test this functionality. If only there were a catalog to view and select a service from a list of pre-built services. If only there were a central location where services could be uploaded and shared across all our teams! I could review the pre-built services, see ...
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Smarter Mocking: Eclipse IDE with Service Virtualization

By Giridharan Jagadeesan
Developers prefer to be able to conduct all of their work directly from their IDE. If they have dependencies and need to create virtual services, they want to be able to manage these from their IDE as well. Virtual services are designed to help developers emulate the missing, unavailable, or costly components or systems so that testing can happen early, errors can be identified quickly, and fixes can happen long before issues enter production systems. With Service Virtualization/DevTest 10.5, we have enhanced our Eclipse Plugin to provide support for developers to create virtual services from the Eclipse IDE. With this plugin, you can do the following: ...
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Service Virtualization v10.5 is now GA!

By Koustubh Warty
Proud to announce that Service Virtualization - SV 10.5 is now GA! Super excited to announce ' The Most Developer Friendly release of Service Virtualization Ever ' to enable Developers to use Service Virtualization earlier in the SDLC (Shift-Left anyone?) and as a part of their CI/CD pipeline. As a part of this release, we are providing you with blogs on the exciting new features of SV 10.5. Click on each feature to read the blog posts on those features. - Eclipse Plugin - Enhanced APIs - Jenkins Plugin - Kubernetes Support for Docker containers - SVasCode Other frequently requested features include: - Autologin (Portal ...
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API Enhancements - SV 10.5

By Koustubh Warty
CHALLENGE: Our Customers want to create & update Virtual Services through APIs without the need to log into the Workstation and/or Portal. SOLUTION SV API v3 simplifies and enhances the user experience - the way a new Virtual Service is created or updating an existing Virtual Service. What's so special in this API? Create a Virtual Service Supports WSDL, Swagger, RAML, WADL, RR pairs,Mar files ability to provide SSL connections ability to specify a port number for deployment Update an existing Virtual Service Supports ability to augment existing service using RR pairs Download an existing ...
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Integrating my Virtual Services with my Jenkins Continuous Delivery Pipeline

By Beverly Mindle
In order to build new products quickly and sustainably, automating testing practices is key. This includes not only designing and building the tests that need to be run, the data that is needed for testing, the dependencies that an application may require that may be difficult or costly to simulate, but as Devops engineers know it also includes automating the CI/CD Pipeline to ensure these tests run consistently when new development builds are triggered. The goal of continuous delivery and integration is to help ensure you always have a working build and if not to help you identify problems, performance issues, missing scenarios or other issues with your ...
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Service Virtualization 10.5 - Countdown has begun

By Koustubh Warty
Coming up soon is SV 10.5! Super excited to announce ' The Most Developer Friendly release of Service Virtualization Ever ' to enable Developers to use Service Virtualization earlier in the SDLC (Shift-Left anyone?) and as a part of their CI/CD pipeline. As a part of this release, we are providing you with blogs on the exciting new features of SV 10.5. Click on each feature to read the blog posts on those features. - Eclipse Plugin - Enhanced APIs - Jenkins Plugin - Kubernetes Support for Docker containers - SVasCode Other frequently requested features include: - Autologin (Portal & Enterprise Dashboard) - Support for SWIFT ...
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Webinar on Eliminating Test Environment dependencies in your CI/CD pipeline

By Koustubh Warty
Pleased to let you all know that we just presented a Webinar on Eliminating Test Environment dependencies in your CI/CD pipeline. Enormous savings and quality benefits are possible from shifting testing left to development, but dependencies can make that goal difficult to achieve. Often, services you need to test against are either still in development, cost money to hit (3rd party services) or are simply not available. Sure, you can write a simple mock, but the inherent limitations in types of services you can cover and responses that can be returned often leads to inadequate tests and potential escaped defects. Now, you can create ephemeral test ...
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CA Service Virtualization v10.4 is GA

By Alan_Baptista_DevOps-SV
CA Service Virtualization Release Announcement Release Date: 09/24/2018 Release Announcement for v10.4 CA Service Virtualization v10.4 now GA! We are pleased to announce the General Availability of CA Application Test and CA Service Virtualization versions 10.4. Three key items being released in this version are a new Jenkins Plugin, Open API 3.0 Support, Apache Kafka and other product enhancements. Jenkins Plugin: A new Jenkins plugin lets you manage virtual services and provision tests from your Jenkins UI. The Jenkins plug-in is compatible with CA Service Virtualization version 10.3 and greater. Learn ...
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CA Service Virtualization and Jenkins making Continuous Integration and Testing Better Together

By Alan_Baptista_DevOps-SV
We are proud to announce the new Jenkins plug-in for CA Service Virtualization available as of August 2018 and can be downloaded directly from the Jenkins Plugins Index [ https://plugins.jenkins.io/ca-service-virtualization ] This new plug-in allows CA Service Virtualization users to integrate directly with Jenkins. This Jenkins plug-in offers out-of-the-box ready-built steps that may be used to trigger actions directly in CA Service Virtualization ( Version 10.3 and above ), including: Deploy virtual Services Deploy test cases or test suites Start, Stop or un-deploy virtual services Display test result report as part of the completed Jenkins Build ...
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CA Service Virtualization v10.3 is GA

By Koustubh Warty
CA Service Virtualization Release Announcement Release Date: 03/30/2018 Release Announcement for v10.3 CA Service Virtualization v10.3 now GA! We are pleased to announce the General Availability of CA Application Test and CA Service Virtualization versions 10.3. Three key items being released on this version are the Virtual Service Catalog, Enhanced Enterprise Dashboard , and ROI Calculator. Virtual Service Catalog: We are proud to introduce CA Service Virtualization’s Virtual Service Catalog, which p rovides a central repository for viewing and sharing all virtual services that have been deployed to a Virtual ...
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A Simple Return on Investment Calculation for CA Service Virtualization

By mazda03
Business decisions are run by numbers, and these numbers are often compared over time . One of the most important values for making decisions is Return on Investment , or ROI , and it can be a very powerful tool to track value . SV is valuable because it simulates unavailable systems and applications across the software development lifecycle, allowing developers and testers to work in parallel for faster application delivery, higher quality, and improved reliability. SV greatly reduce s costs and accelerate s time to market , thereby improving overall investment return. OK, s o h ow do we prove th e value ...
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What’s the secret to boosting DevOps productivity across your enterprise? Join us!

By Marvin.Mao
Please join us February 13, 2017 at 11am ET for an informative discussion on proven approaches that bring both the cloud experience and modern DevOps approaches to mainframe development. Hear from leading analyst Jason Bloomberg, Intellyx, and CA DevOps experts Serge Lucio and Jean-Louis Vignaud to learn how you can make your mainframe platform accessible to a new generation of developers, agile in speed of development and automated for faster time to market.
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Modern Software Delivery Including Mainframe

By Su Brude
We at CA want to learn from you! We want to get insights from you on how mainframe and distributed systems and teams work together in your organization. When you help us better understand your organization, we will send you a link to a series of educational videos that introduces you to virtualization and automated testing functionality for mainframe that has its roots in distributed systems. Just click the link below to start the survey. It should take no more than 5 minutes of your time to complete. Thanks for your help! Survey Link: Modern Software Delivery Including Mainframe
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CA Service Virtualization v10.2 now GA!

By Beverly Mindle
We are pleased to announce the General Availability of CA Application Test and CA Service Virtualization versions 10.2. The latest version can be downloaded directly from the CA Support Site , once logged in you will be able to select the latest version from Download Management. Among the many enhancements offered in our latest release, a few worth highlighting are listed here: Improved Visibility of transaction usage and virtual service count across all VSE’s in the Enterprise Dashboard Self- service high-level ROI calculator Improved Workstation Installation by Defining Data Directories in User Folder [Video ...
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A Look at Federation and Communities of Practice

By Legacy User
Have you ever noticed that it’s the high-performing teams that ask the best questions of themselves? They challenge themselves, think ahead and consistently work to validate team direction and priorities by asking the right questions—frequently. For service virtualization (SV), perhaps the most important questions teams can ask are, “What does our organization want our SV solution to look like?” and “What changes should we pursue at key milestones along our SV journey?” Teams that don’t ask these questions early and frequently in their journey and that don’t consider various scenarios will lag behind teams and their organizations that pursue SV progress ...
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