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# Service Virtualization at a glance

Service Virtualization provides a framework for creating virtual services for testing your applications, especially when real services are limited or unavailable. This lets you simulate a wide variety of situations and application behavior that you might otherwise not be able to test.

In this topic:

## Start page

The Start page contains the Welcome, Get Started, and Sample tabs.

### Welcome page

The Welcome tab provides links to videos about Service Virtualization.

### Get Started

The Get Started tab lists several sample projects, that allow you to explore Service Virtualization. For details, see Get Started Page.

### Sample projects

The Sample projects tab lets you select a task in order to begin designing your virtual service. For details, see Sample Projects Page.

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## Virtualization Explorer

The Virtualization Explorer gives you access to all the components of your virtualization project.

### Virtual Services Editor

The Virtual Service editor is where you configure you virtual service.

### Virtual service models

In this section, you select the virtual service's model type: Data model or Performance model.

### Simulation Models

In this section, you manage the simulation models in order to control the data and improve performance.

### Runtime view

This view lets you see the service's activity during learning or simulation.

### Problem list

This tab shows the errors and warnings that occur during an application run.

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## Service Virtual Designer options

In the Options dialog box, you set the General, Agents, Servers, and Early access options.

### General

The General options let you set the display language and the default location.

### Agents

The Agents options let you select a Service Virtualization agent for your virtual service.

Servers

The Servers options let you manage your Service Virtualization servers.

### Early Access

The Early Access options let you enable the early access features, allowing you to try out these new experimental features.

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See also:

- End-to-end workflow
- Introducing Service Virtualization

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