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.
