Case Study: American Family Insurance Leverages CA Service Virtualization to Accelerate Continuous Integration in Development

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CaseStudy:LeveragingCAServiceVirtualizationtoAccelerateContinuousIntegrationinDevelopment

JeffDeMeyer- SoftwareEngineer- AmericanFamilyInsurance

DO5T04S

DEVOPS

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Abstract

JeffDeMeyer(SoftwareEngineer)discusseshowleveragingServiceVirtualizationinUnitTestingacceleratescontinuousintegrationindevelopment.

Virtualservicesaregenerallymoreeffectivewhenputinthehandsoftalenteddevelopers.Leveragingvirtualservices,inlieuoflivesystems,duringcontinuousintegrationunittestinghasproventoreducetestingcycletimesfrom6+hourstounder1hour.Thisallowsformoretestingcyclestobeexecuted,alongwithnewcodebeingcheckedinearlierandmoreoften,duringasprint.Theresultsaremoretesting,defectsbeingfoundearlier,morerapiddevelopment,andbetterapplicationqualitybeingproducedindevelopmenttiers.

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Agenda

RELEASEEARLY,RELEASEOFTEN

RESEARCHTOFINDOUTWHEREITHURTSANDWHATCANBEDONE

Q&A

IMPLEMENTAPLANTOALLEVIATETHEPAIN

EXECUTETHEPLANSANDREAPYOURROI

OTHERAREASTHATHAVEBENEFITFROMSERVICEVIRTUALIZATION

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Almostallofushaveheardaboutthisbefore…

WhatisthetruecostoffindingabugearlyintheSDLCversuslater?Almostallofushaveseenapresentationthatchroniclesthisverysimpletruthaboutbugs.Findingthemearlierisbetter(andexponentiallycheapertofix)!

Yethowcanwetestmorecode,earlier,whenwearegivenlessandlesstimetodevelopandtestourcode?

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ReleaseEarly,ReleaseOften

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TypicalSDLCReleaseofCode

Codegetscheckedintothedevregion’srepositoryanddeployedtothedevtier.

Thenextdeploymentofcodetothedevtiercannottakeplaceuntilthecurrentdeploymentfinishesupitsunittests.

Unittestsarerun.

Ifunittestspass,usuallyasmoketestisrunandthenthepackageispromotedtotheintegrationtier.

Youcanonlyreleaseasearlyandasoftenasthespeedatwhichyourunittestsarerun.

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ResearchtoFindoutWhereitHurtsandWhatCanBeDone

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ResultsofMeetingwithDevelopers

Developersidentifythatasingleunittestcycletakesmorethan6hourstocompleteinitscurrentstate.

Developersidentifythatrunningtheunittestsserially,inconjunctionwiththousandsofwebservicecallsbeingmadepercycle,addssignificanttimetothelengthofthecycle.

Developersareconcernedthatastheyaddafewthousandmoreunittests,thatunittestingwillsignificantlyimpedetheirabilitytoreleasecodeatthepaceneededtomeetdeliverables.

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ImpactofWebServiceCallsonCycle

Therearemorethan25webservicesbeingcalledduringunittests.

Averageresponsetimeofwebservicecallsisabout2seconds.Thereareover3,000unittestsmakinganaverageof5webservicecallspertests.Thatis15,000webservicecallspercycle.

Totaltimespentonwebservicecallsis30,000secondsOR8.3Hours!

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ImplementaPlantoAlleviatethePain

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ProposedPlan

Virtualizeallofthewebservicesand

set thethinktimeto“0”,makingtheaverageresponse time less

than50ms.

Runtheunittestsinparallelinstead

ofserially.

Developer(s)would beassignedtothecreation/maintenanceoftheservices.

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ExecutethePlanandReapYourROI

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ExecutethePlan

Developerspent100hoursbuilding27virtualservices(about2– 4hoursforeachservice)

Unittestscompletedinunderanhour(about50minutes).

Developerrantheunittestsinparallelagainstthedevenvironmentbackedbyvirtualservices.

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ReapYourServiceVirtualizationROI

Investment=100hrsSavings=7hrs percycleROI=14.2cycles(or,15cycles)

Giventhattheincreasewentfromonecycleadaytofivecyclesaday,yourROIissatisfiedin4days!

Ifyoursprintlengthis2weeks(or10days),yougofrom10codereleasespersprintto50codereleasespersprint.Thatisa400%increaseintheamountofcodereleasesinasprint.Thisequatestofindingbugssoonerandfixingthemearlierintheprojectversuslater,whichequalslessexpensivefixes.

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OtherAreasThatBenefitFromServiceVirtualization

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PlacesThatBenefitFromServiceVirtualization

OurmobiledevelopmentteamhastakenadvantageofusingServiceVirtualizationforvirtualizingAPIsusingSwaggerDocs,beforetheAPIsareevenavailable.

Ourtrainingenvironmentsarebackedbyvirtualservicestoreducethecostandmaintenanceoftrainingenvironments

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Wehaveusedservicevirtualizationtocreatevirtual‘utilities’usedforcreatingvirtualservice,assigningtrainingIDs,andaddinguserstoJIRA.

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