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API testing gets harder as it grows: fragmented tools, brittle scripts, thousands of endpoints, and external dependencies that block progress. SmartBear ReadyAPI lets teams ship production-ready APIs faster by validating functionality, performance, and security in one test, with virtualization built in – no separate tools to juggle. In this Demo Den, Thomas Hurley, senior manager of product management at SmartBear, shows how one test does the work of three, so teams cut maintenance time and stop waiting on external dependencies.

AI tip: For pull requests, let your AI agent take the first pass before your team ever sees it. That's the workflow Ilia Mogilevsky, Software Engineering Manager at SmartBear, built. By packaging prompts into a skill loaded with Git history, Jira context, and CI checks, he turned a basic AI assistant into a reviewer he trusts. The skill then generates a structured report with approval-ready fixes. Accept the changes, adjust what's off, and push – review cycles shrink and deploys move faster.

The real bottleneck is knowing what to build before you start. Pro tip from Senior Software Engineer Josh Ellis: treat every AI agent every AI agent like a junior dev he's onboarding: define the what, the how, and the hard limits upfront. The plan drives the output, not the other way around.

See how SmartBear Reflect uses agentic AI to build end-to-end tests in minutes and keep them resilient as your application changes. In under 20 minutes, Reflect co-creator, and SmartBear Director of Product Management, Todd McNeil walks through live test creation across web and mobile, with zero fluff.

our API didn't break – it just stopped matching its contract. API drift is one of the sneakiest problems in modern API development. Your OpenAPI definition says one thing, your running implementation does another, and nobody notices until a consumer integration fails or a user hits an unexpected error. The longer it goes undetected, the harder it is to trace back to the source.

They fit into the workflows, processes, and environments teams already have. As Chris Armstrong, Manager of Developer Relations at SmartBear, explains, every organization is on a different stage of its journey. Some are exploring AI. Others are scaling it. Many are managing a mix of legacy systems, modern platforms, and everything in between. What teams need isn't another platform that demands a complete overhaul. They need solutions that respect their context while helping them move forward with confidence.

Discover how QMetry streamlines test management with this comprehensive walkthrough covering requirements management, test design, test execution, automation, reporting, and AI-powered productivity features. Struggling with disconnected testing processes, manual test execution, and limited visibility into quality across your software development lifecycle? This complete QMetry tutorial shows testers, QA teams, and engineering organizations how to manage the entire testing workflow in a single platform, from requirements to release.

We've been getting a lot of questions about how Rovo works with Zephyr, so Matt Bonner gives a quick look at a few of the capabilities teams are finding most valuable: Test case generation Test coverage insights Release Risk Analyzer.

What did Atlassian Team ’26 reveal about the future of software quality and AI-powered delivery? In this recap from the event floor inside the Anaheim Convention Center, SmartBear shares key themes from the event, including Atlassian Rovo, the Teamwork Graph, AI-driven workflows, and how QA teams are adapting to faster, AI-assisted software delivery inside Jira. See quick highlights from the event floor, SmartBear’s latest Zephyr innovations, and how conversational AI and quality intelligence are becoming part of the modern software delivery workflow.

SmartBear ReadyAPI's AI-powered test generation instantly builds functional test cases from a simple natural language prompt. Stop writing API tests manually and let AI do the heavy lifting. In this demo, we show how you can take an OpenAPI spec and generate tests complete with assertions, authentication headers, test data, and request chaining. Whether you test complex microservices or APIs with hundreds of endpoints, ReadyAPI helps QA teams move faster without sacrificing quality or control.