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End-to-end (E2E) testing is an important part of the software development process, serving as a comprehensive way to verify that applications and systems work properly in real-life scenarios. It provides a level of assurance that your application will correctly exhibit behavior from start to finish.

Today, APIs are based on modern communication patterns: REST, GraphQL, or gRPC. But two decades ago, the majority of Web Services were developed with SOAP/XML. In this blog, we’ll explain how Kong Konnect can manage SOAP/XML Web Services by creating custom plugins and by using ChatGPT. We’ll cover using ChatGPT to develop a Lua custom plugin and how to deploy and test a SOAP/XML custom plugin on Kong Konnect and Kong Enterprise.

In the fast-paced world of software development, identifying and reporting defects is the core responsibility of testers. It's common to become familiar with the application you are testing and develop blindspots that hinder your ability to identify and investigate defects. One of the reasons for this to happen is that you rely on scripted testing only.

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, APIs are the backbone of seamless integration and innovation across various software platforms. As businesses and developers strive to create interconnected and efficient applications, having comprehensive and value-driven API documentation and API exploration tools within the same platform is indispensable.

SmartBear is excited to announce the release of SwaggerHub Portal, a feature of SwaggerHub allowing you to customize consumer-facing documentation for your APIs to maximize API discoverability. With its intuitive interface, you can easily create onboarding guides, reference documentation, and other materials that help developers both understand and integrate your APIs into their applications. With Portal, you can easily sync your API designs from SwaggerHub with zero context switching.

In the realm of software development, designing apps that are reliable and scalable is crucial. Design patterns are essential in achieving these objectives, being useful in OOP, UI and even QR Code design. The main reason is that design patterns offer reusable solutions to typical problems. This post explains the idea of design patterns, exploring their types, benefits and practical applications.

How our analytics engineering team uses ChatGPT to write the most efficient dbt packages for your most common analytics use cases.

Data-driven businesses like yours require up-to-the-second actionable insights to stay ahead of the curve. According to recent industry reports, businesses that can make timely decisions based on real-time data have been shown to outperform their competitors by 20%. Real-time data integration processes and transfers data to a centralized location as quickly as possible, enabling you to make informed decisions and address organizational challenges immediately, rather than in a few hours or days.

As technology advances, so do user expectations. Many customers approach us hoping to boost their application’s analytics capabilities, which are often struggling to keep up with user demand. We see the same analytics challenges time and time again: Disjointed user experience — A lack of customization and functionality prevents your users from viewing data in a way that satisfies their needs. Few dashboards are built to serve the needs of many.

Organizations across all industries are racing to understand large language models (LLMs) and how to incorporate the generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities provided by LLMs into their business activities. Thanks to LLMs’ broad utility in classifying, editing, summarizing, answering questions, and drafting new content, among other tasks they are being embedded into existing processes and used to create new applications and services.