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Service Virtualization Overview

Service virtualization is the imaging of software service behavior and the modeling of a virtual service to stand in for the actual service during development and testing. Service virtualization is complementary to hardware virtualization and addresses its limitations. The word virtualization refers to service virtualization in this documentation.

You may not want or be able to stay connected to the server for your quality assurance tasks. CA Service Virtualization emulates the behavior of the server.

Within CA Service Virtualization, you can use a virtual service environment (VSE) as the client to drive the service to be recorded. However, you will most likely exercise the service for recording with your client (for example, a browser or an in-house application).