Overview Developing new high-quality applications quickly to satisfy the rapidly changing demands of the communications, media and entertain- ment market frequently dictates whether an organization succeeds or flounders. Major impediments to the software release lifecycle are a prolonged development and testing period and a lack of realistic simulations of the application’s service behaviour, especially when dependent systems are unavailable. Challenge This scenario was exacerbated by short test- ing windows, unstable downstream applica- tions as well as production and integration testing issues. Additional complications were unavailable third-party legacy systems, a lack of third-party support, ill-defined test environ- ments and time-consuming data creation for end-to-end e

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