How to choose a service virtualization tool?

Most companies like to evaluate several tools before they commit to a purchase.

Typically they evaluate the service virtualization tools based on many factors such as:

• Cost
• Protocols and technologies supported
• Features
• Performance benchmarks
• Support level

Here are a few additional technical questions might help decide which of the tools you are looking at is best:

• Would you like to have a central team of administrators managing the new tool?
• What kind of footprint would you like (RAM, disk usage, ...)?
• What kind of licensing model would work best for your use case?
• Do you need to source control of the virtual services and deployment scripts?
• Are you looking for a tool that fits more the microservices architecture or a monolithic architecture?

These questions are based on:

•  Why do our customers choose Traffic Parrot over other enterprise offerings?
•  3 ways to deploy and share virtual services and API mocks