Recommendations to others considering Parasoft Virtualize:
Support is awesome. Could usually get to a live support person same day, or next day. Which is amazing. Their support knows the tool inside out and I was always able to show them my processes, and they would provide feedback immediately, or following day.
As bonus, during our POC, we had a special request for MQ configuration, and they were able to provide custom build next day. I mean who does that these days. Parasoft is truly master of their domain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is Parasoft Virtualize solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our initial problem was broad spectrum data alignment and time based eventing and response across 10-12 interfaces.
Previous approach of replicating non sensitive production data yielded inconsistent results. Prior to the tool the test strategy would be to poke around at data sets until found a scenario that worked. Which rarely worked, and if did, wouldn't work the next day.
By recording a day’s worth of data and customizing in desired scenarios and cloning in multiple highly desirable scenarios we could now test consistently and continually. Our internal reference was we now had a "Groundhogs Day" environment.
As a side note, early automation test efforts, it would take about 4 hours to completely fabricate a scenario by hand across all interfaces and events. Now with the tooling, it is just automatic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.