Building a Unified Service Virtualization Control Plane: A Longitudinal Industrial Case Study in Enterprise Scalability

Service virtualization (SV) enables testing teams to simulate unavailable or unstable dependencies, but enterprise deployments suffer from linear scaling costs, metadata fragmentation in siloed binary artifacts, and high tooling friction. This paper presents a longitudinal industrial case study of a Unified SV Control Plane deployed since 2017 at a large financial services organization. The architecture treats the commercial SV engine as a headless execution shell, offloading routing intelligenc