Service Virtualization - Reality Is Overrated

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.

Sommario

Foreword by Burt Klein Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Business Imperative: Innovate or Die
Chapter 3. How We Got Here
Chapter 4. Constraints: The Enemy of Agility
Chapter 5. What is Service Virtualization?
Chapter 6. Where to Start with SV?
Chapter 7. Capabilities of Service Virtualization Technology
Chapter 8. Best Practice #1: Shift-Left
Chapter 9. Best Practice #2: Infrastructure Availability
Chapter 10. Best Practice #3: Performance Readiness
Chapter 11. Best Practice #4: Test Scenario Management
Chapter 12. Rolling out Service Virtualization
Chapter 13. Service Virtualization in the DevTest Cloud
Chapter 14. Assessing the Value
Chapter 15. Conclusion
Glossary
About the Authors

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jason English, Joh Michelsen, John Michelsen
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2013
• EAN: 9781430246718
• ISBN: 978-1-4302-4671-8
• Pagine: 136
• Dimensioni: 174 mm x 9 mm x 230 mm
• Peso: 236 g
• Illustrazioni: XVI, 136 p. 72 illus.
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Informatica, EDP > Hardware; Maker, B, Expert systems / knowledge-based systems, Professional and Applied Computing, Computer input-output equipment, Hardware and Maker, Special purpose computers, Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems