In today’s hyper-competitive digital landscape, software teams are under relentless pressure to deliver high-quality applications faster than ever before. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, microservices architectures, and Agile sprints have dramatically compressed release cycles — but testing has struggled to keep up. One of the biggest bottlenecks in modern software testing is dependency availability. Your application talks to payment gateways, third-party APIs, legacy systems, partner services, and cloud microservices. When any one of those dependencies is unavailable, unstable, or not yet built, your entire testing pipeline grinds to a halt.