Digital Twin

A virtual replica of a physical system, service, or process that mirrors its behavior for testing, simulation, or analysis without affecting the original.

In software development, digital twins are behavioral clones that replicate the APIs, edge cases, and observable behaviors of third-party services. StrongDM uses digital twins of services like Okta, Jira, and Slack to run thousands of scenario tests per hour without hitting rate limits or risking production systems. The concept originated in manufacturing and IoT but is increasingly applied to software testing at scale.

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