When SmartBear added TM4J to our product portfolio earlier this spring, it brought us one more step towards our mission: help teams achieve quality throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), no matter where they’re starting from. The addition rounded out our test management portfolio, offering a solution to those customers who seek a SaaS test management solution within Jira. So why the name change?

There’s never been a more important time to pay attention to APIs. Given the impacts of a global pandemic, organizations are increasing their reliance on digital technology. Tools that support API development, testing, monitoring, and documentation have become crucial to enabling the success of digital initiatives.

Every company is a digital company. Whether you are a traditional e-commerce company who has been selling goods online for years, a healthcare company who recently needed to accelerate online visits for telehealth, or a company whose business model has drastically shifted due to Covid, the need for digital transformation is here.

With exponential growth in remote working, teams are struggling with collaboration and maintaining visibility. Sound familiar? In this blog we’ll explore how to keep track of your testing activity and team’s progress in Jira, and how TM4J – Test Management for Jira can help identify common problem areas so proper measures can be taken.

Today we’re launching new names for some of our most popular API products. This is part of refreshing our outlook on the API space and our subsequent API lifecycle tools. We loved our old names, and know many felt the same. And yet, here we are to explain why we decided the progression was necessary.

Consistency is one of the most critical elements of accelerating API development as organizations try to meet increased demand, quality expectations, and regulatory requirements. Without a consistent API design to developers, there is no guarantee that the final result will match the intended purpose or the application depending on the API can function properly.

Quality: We all hear about it, but do we know what it is, and why we need it? Quality:(noun)The standard of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence of something. "an improvement in product quality" Software quality: the totality of functionality and features of a software product that bear on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. In other words, ensuring an app works after it’s deployed.