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Service Virtualization

Reality Is Overrated

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  • Service Virtualization is a crash course on service virtualization as an essential new tool for dramatically improving your business’s efficiency, reliability, predictability, speed, and cost in developing its enterprise application software.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 1-3
  3. The Business Imperatives: Innovate or Die

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 5-10
  4. How We Got Here

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 11-15
  5. Constraints: The Enemy of Agility

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 17-26
  6. What Is Service Virtualization?

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 27-35
  7. Capabilities of Service Virtualization Technology

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 37-45
  8. Where to Start with Service Virtualization?

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 47-58
  9. Best Practice 1: Deliver Faster

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 59-65
  10. Best Practice 2: Reduce Your Infrastructure Footprint

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 67-73
  11. Best Practice 3: Transform Performance and Scale

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 75-82
  12. Best Practice 4: Data Scenario Management

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 83-87
  13. Rolling Out Service Virtualization

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 89-97
  14. Service Virtualization and DevTest Cloud

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 99-104
  15. Assessing the Value

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 105-114
  16. Conclusion

    • John Michelsen, Jason English
    Pages 115-120
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 121-136

About this book

Software drives innovation and success in today’s business world. Yet critical software projects consistently come in late, defective, and way over budget. So what’s the problem?

Get ready for a shock, because the answer to the problem is to avoid reality altogether. A new IT practice and technology called Service Virtualization (SV) is industrializing the process of simulating everything in our software development and test environments. Service Virtualization is a method to emulate the behavior of  components in heterogeneous applications such as "Service-Oriented Architectures" (SOA). Yes, fake systems are even better than the real thing for most of the design and development lifecycle, and SV is already making a huge impact at some of the world’s biggest companies.

Service Virtualization: Reality Is Overrated is the first book to present this powerful new method for simulating the behavior, data, and responsiveness of specific components in complex applications. By faking out dependency constraints, SV delivers dramatic improvements in speed, cost, performance, and agility to the development of enterprise application software.

Writing for executive and technical readers alike, SV inventor John Michelsen and Jason English capture lessons learned from the first five years of applying this game-changing practice in real customer environments. Other industries—from aviation to medicine—already understand the power of simulation to solve real-world constraints and deliver new products to market better, faster, and cheaper. Now it’s time to apply the same thinking to our software.

For more information, see servicevirtualization.com.

About the authors

John Michelsen is the chief technology officer and cofounder of ITKO/Ca Technologies. Before forming ITKO, he was director of development at Trilogy Inc. He is the chief architect of the LISA service virtualization and automated validation platform and a leading industry advocate and consultant for lifecycle optimization of enterprise applications. His clients include Xerox, Cendant Financial, Microsoft, American Airlines, Union Pacific, Raima, Sabre, and Nielsen Market Research. Michelsen holds numerous patents in such areas as service-oriented architectures, object-oriented database management systems, middleware, model-driven architectures, and cloud. He presents regularly at IT and software development events, including SOA World, Infoworld SOA Summit, STAReast, Better Software, IBM Impact, SD West, TUCON, SoftwareAG Integration World, Cloud Computing Summit, TD Summit, and Software Test & Performance. Michelsen contributes frequently to IT publications, such as Virtualization Journal, SD Times, Software Test & Performance, SIGNAL DoD Monthly, Dr. Dobb s, and Software Development.

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eBook USD 19.99
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  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 24.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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