What's new in 2022 - 2022 R2

The OpenText Service Virtualization 2022 R2 release introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes, improving SV product usability and expanding usage. The main enhancements include enhancements to Protocol Hooks, Service Call Activities and HTTP agents, an introduction to public REST APIs, a new security audit, Kubernetes deployment enhancements, easier upgrades, security fixes, and SV infrastructure updates.

Added ability to define custom fields in the Protocol Hooks script and access them from Virtual Service Data Models.

Added ability to access SCA execution status from scripting to simplify working with SCA responses.

Simplified proxy configuration by adding support for system proxy as chained proxy HTTP agents.

Initial introduction of the SV Server public REST management API.

Introduced the security audit file allowing visibility into SV Server user actions. This provides details of successful and failed logins, added and removed users, granted and revoked permissions, modification of system configuration, and access and modifications to system logs.

Enhanced deployment of SV Server as Docker image and its orchestration by Kubernetes.

Introduced lock files to prevent concurrent modification of SV projects accessed by concurrently running SV Designers.

Simplified SV Server and SV Designer upgrades by allowing automatic reuse of certificates from previous versions during installation

This release includes the following infrastructure updates:

• .NET 6 is now supported for Linux and Docker deployments.

• Upgraded Open SSL to version 1.1.1p to address security vulnerabilities.

This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Improved stability, performance and fixed issues in SV Designer and SV Server.

• Enhanced documentation and demos.

The OpenText Service Virtualization 2022 R1 release introduces numerous enhancements and bug fixes, improving SV product usability and expanding usage. The main new enhancements include data model schema optimization, histograms for performance testing, integration of GIT into SV Designer, improvements in SCA, Docker and troubleshooting, SSO/SAML 2.0, security fixes, and infrastructure updates.

Added ability to delete part of the schema from the Data Model editor.

Added histograms to SV statistics to enhance granularity of performance test simulation and analysis.

Added support for GIT integration in SV Designer which enables you to synchronize GIT files directly from SV Designer.

Added ability to override the HTTP SCA URL from data model and scripting.

This release includes the following troubleshooting updates:

• Limited default reporting of unexpected HTTP header warnings.

• Added propagation of SCA failures to the problems list.

Enhanced Docker configuration by adding more environment variables, simplified the certificate configuration setup process, and consolidated Docker image layers to reduce image size.

This release includes the following security enhancements:

• Added SAML 2.0 SSO support.

• Added independent setup of authentication and authorization providers.

This release includes the following infrastructure updates:

• Added support for RedHat 8.5.

• Upgraded Open SSL to version 1.1.1o.

• Upgraded MS SQL driver.

• Upgraded embedded Firebird SQL DB in SV Designer.

This release includes the following bug fixes:

• Improved stability, performance, and fixed issues in SV Designer and SV Server.

• Enhanced documentation and demos.

The OpenText Service Virtualization 2022 release introduces numerous enhancements and bugfixes, improving SV product usability and expanding usage. The main new enhancements include usage of OpenText Service Virtualization for active LoadRunner customers, updated Protocol Hooks API, JMS correlation, versioning alignment, installation, infrastructure, and security updates.

OpenText Service Virtualization installation packages for Linux and Windows are now included with LoadRunner Professional and LoadRunner Enterprise. This enables LoadRunner performance engineers to use Virtual Services and simulations during performance testing by enabling limited capacity of Virtual Service - All Protocols Unlimited licenses using a LoadRunner license. Included usage is one SV Server instance for each LoadRunner license, and only in the context of performance testing.

• Protocol Hooks API. Protocol Hooks API is now generally available. It introduces a new level of customizability making protocol customization simpler. The API provides an easier way to change message payload, protocol header values, and metadata on input and output in all service modes by writing a simple custom code. Examples of usage include creation and processing of custom signatures, implementation of XSLT transformation on input or output, creation of a custom protocol by using a parser for a non-supported message format, and transforming it to already supported message format (such as XML). Protocol Hooks custom code can also be exported to a Virtual Service template allowing reusability in multiple Virtual Services.

• JMS. Added ability to change CorrelationID in Data Model

• Versioning.OpenText Service Virtualization changed versioning to a year-based scheme to align release numbering with UFT and LoadRunner families.

• Installation. Simplified upgrades for users who did not perform an original installation by allowing them to copy encrypted passwords from original users directly from the installer.

• Security. Updated log4j, SharpZipLib, and H2 libraries to address security vulnerabilities.

• Infrastructure updates. Upgraded the bundled MS SQL database to version 2019. Added the latest version of AutoPass License Server 12.3.

• Bugfixes and Usability. Improved stability, performance, and fixed issues in SV Designer and SV Server.