Case Study: Leading Financial Services Provider achieves scalable, low-cost parallel Agile testing with Parasoft

Scaling Test Environment Access for Parallel Agile Development

1 Finance, a brokerage serving personal investors, depended on a costly third‑party trading application for core trade execution. After reorganizing into nine Agile teams, a single shared test environment became a bottleneck—each team needed unique data and configurations, simultaneous use caused conflicts, and provisioning additional physical instances would have required roughly $2M (about $250K per instance).

The company used Parasoft Service Virtualization and Parasoft Environment Manager to capture the third‑party system’s behavior as virtual assets and build a master environment template, enabling nine independent, zero‑impact sandboxes on demand. The change unlocked true parallel development, allowed 24/7 testing instead of being limited to trading hours, and reduced test execution times from over 20 minutes to near‑instant responses—without the prohibitive hardware expense.