Pioneering the Future of Service Virtualization with NetOcean

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, time-to-market and quality are critical, and efficient backend application simulation and service virtualization solutions are indispensable. Enter Cavisson NetOcean—a powerful backend application simulator that eliminates dependencies on backend applications and third-party systems. This innovative solution empowers organizations to achieve faster functional and performance testing, ensuring accelerated time-to-market. It’s no wonder that leading Fortune 500 brands trust Cavisson NetOcean to streamline their testing processes and reduce the overall cost of ownership for application testing.


Why Choose NetOcean?

NetOcean is a battle-proven solution for simulating backend applications, delivering significant benefits:

Check  Cost Reduction: By avoiding the need for costly real backend or third-party applications, NetOcean reduces the total cost of ownership for quality and performance testing.

Check Enhanced Quality and Performance: The solution significantly improves the quality and performance of software applications, ensuring they meet the highest standards.

Check Accelerated Time-to-Market: NetOcean enables faster time-to-market for software applications by removing dependencies and streamlining testing processes.

Check Improved Availability and Scheduling: By focusing solely on the system under test, NetOcean enhances availability and scheduling, freeing teams from concerns about other systems or services.

Check Agile Development: The solution allows agile development by enabling testing teams to decouple from complex architectures, supporting the parallel development of dependent systems.

Service Virtualization at Its Best

NetOcean captures and simulates production environment-like behavior and performance characteristics of backend systems and third-party applications, providing these characteristics within the test environment. This capability is crucial for development and testing teams, ensuring they can replicate real-world scenarios accurately. Additionally, NetOcean allows customization of responses for simulated services and applying boundaries or error conditions, making it a versatile tool for various testing needs.

Unique Capabilities of NetOcean

Cavisson NetOcean is a feature-rich, enterprise-ready solution with capabilities that extend far beyond basic features:

Check Stability in Demanding Environments: More than a decade of experience in addressing application performance testing challenges around service virtualization or back-end system simulation. NetOCean has passed the test of working at some of the most complex and demanding situations at leading network infrastructure companies.

Check Extremely Powerful Appliance:  A single appliance is capable of handling load, 100-1000x more than other legacy solutions available

Check Easy Test Automation: The availability of a Java API to automate controller and service management makes NetOcean developer’s first choice. 

Check Internet True™ WAN simulation Real-life simulation of WAN within the controlled lab environment, allowing to mimic geographically distributed load patterns along with varying bandwidth behavior.

Figure: Internet Stimulation

Check Comprehensive Protocol Support: NetOcean supports a wide array of protocols, including HTTP/HTTPS-based services (SOAP, XML, HTML, AJAX/JSON), FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, Java, EJB, JMS, JDBC, CICS MF, MQ, Hessian, and various application services like Chase payment processing, VISA issuers/merchants, Blackhawk network gift card processing, Responsys email, Cheetah mail, and ReD (Retail Decisions).

Check Version Control of Service Definition: With changes or upgrades to the end-point service, keeping and managing version control for services created is extremely important. NetOcean lets you do that with ease and also enables an easy roll-back.

Check Customization of Simulated Services: Rich parameterization styles allow the creation of appropriate data for simulated services, essential for testing scenarios with varying load parameters and responses.

Figure: Customization of Simulated Services

Check Advanced Forwarder Settings: While forwarding services, NetOcean allows configurations like adding custom headers, setting connection timeouts, or specifying the ratio of requests to be forwarded.

Figure: Advanced Forwarder Settings

Conclusion

Cavisson NetOcean redefines service virtualization with its robust capabilities, extensive protocol support, and ease of use. By enabling faster quality and performance testing, reducing costs, and accelerating time-to-market, NetOcean is an invaluable tool for modern enterprises. Its unique features and proven stability make it the go-to solution for backend application simulation and service virtualization, helping organizations stay ahead in the competitive digital landscape.

Schedule a Demo: Discover how Cavisson NetOcean can transform your development and testing workflows, making your team more agile and efficient. Don’t miss the opportunity to experience the power of NetOcean firsthand.

Schedule your demo today!

About the author: Parul Prajapati