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Why service virtualization is like a wind tunnel

This week I attended the second edition of the Continuous Delivery Conference here in the Netherlands. It was a very interesting day with some good keynotes and presentations, plus I had a lot of interesting discussions with both old and...

Getting started with: JGiven

This is the eighth article in our series on new, popular or otherwise interesting tools used in test automation. You can read all posts within this series by clicking here. What is JGiven? From the JGiven.org website: JGiven is a...

Creating mock RESTful APIs using Sandbox

While browsing through my Twitter feed a couple of days ago I saw someone mentioning Sandbox, a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution for quick creation and deployment of mock services for development and testing purposes. After starting to play...

Model-based testing with GraphWalker and Selenium – part 1

In this post I’d like to make a start exploring the possibilities and drawbacks that model-based testing (MBT) can offer to test automation in general and Selenium WebDriver in particular. I’ll be using GraphWalker as my MBT tool of choice,...

Service virtualization implementation roadblocks

In previous posts I have written about some of the merits of service virtualization (SV) as a means of emulating the behaviour of non-existent or hard or expensive to access software components in a distributed environment. In this post, I...