Case Study: Sabre achieves 67% faster testing and $720K annual savings with Parasoft SOAtest & Virtualize

Sabre Virtualizes Web Services to Validate API & Data Interactions

Sabre, the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology, needed to transition its core systems from a proprietary architecture to APIs while maintaining very high reliability and availability. The migration exposed dependencies on diverse, complex downline systems (airlines, hotels, rail, etc.), a huge number of protocols and test cases, and real-world delays in live systems; simple request–response stubs proved inadequate for thorough, repeatable testing.

Sabre implemented Parasoft SOAtest and Parasoft Virtualize to automate API test-case generation, virtualize complex downline systems (including ML-driven scenario generation), and mask/store test data for dynamic scenarios. The solution produced thousands of repeatable tests, let teams switch easily between live and virtual systems, eliminated performance- and availability-related testing risk, cut certification time by two-thirds (67%) saving $720,000 annually, and ensured API reliability and performance before production.

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