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 pe- riod and a lack of realistic simulations of the application’s service behavior, especially when dependent systems are unavailable. Challenge This scenario was exacerbated by short testing windows, unstable downstream applications as well as production and integration testing issues. Additional complications were unavail- able third-party legacy systems, a lack of third- party support, ill-defined test environments and time-consuming data creation for end- to-end env

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