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By Kevin Rohan Vaz
There’s something satisfying about contract testing the contract-testing tool. The SmartBear MCP Server is the integration layer between AI coding assistants and the PactFlow API, so when we decided it needed Pact consumer tests of its own, we were subjecting our own code to the same standards that we recommend.
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By Pratik Pal Bariha
The pull request looked perfect. Two approvals, clean diff, all checks green. The team shipped it Thursday afternoon. By Friday morning, support tickets were coming in. On a popular mid-range Android device, the new checkout button rendered behind a promotional banner: visually present but physically untappable. Every reviewer read that code, yet none of them could have caught it, because the defect was never visible in the diff. It only ever appeared on the device.
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By Manisha Talwar
SmartBear BearQ, an agentic QA system, has won a 2026 CRN Tech Innovator Award. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, named BearQ a winner in the Application Development and DevOps category, calling it out among the most innovative technologies shaping the IT channel this year. AI has changed how fast software gets built, but for many organizations, testing hasn’t kept pace.
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By Vyshnavi Dabbir
Key takeaway: When code moves at AI speed and testing stays manual, the widening gap between a code change and its test coverage becomes your biggest quality risk. SmartBear ReadyAPI MCP reduces that gap by letting you generate, run, and heal API tests in plain language, right inside the Claude, Copilot, or Cursor session that wrote the code.
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By Maggie Bean
Every QA budget has a line item for building test coverage, but 30–50% of that automation budget ends up spent on maintenance instead of new tests. That disparity stays invisible until a release goes out, the application shifts underneath the tests, and the QA team spends the next three days rewriting broken scripts instead of finding new bugs.
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By Vyshnavi Dabbir
APIs are the backbone of modern software. They connect microservices, power mobile experiences, and make integrations possible across industries. For all their importance, API testing remains one of the most fragmented, manual, and maintenance-heavy parts of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). So as development accelerates in an AI-disrupted SDLC, application integrity – continuous, measurable assurance that your software just works as intended – becomes harder to maintain, not easier.
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By Alisha Siddhartha
AI can now handle the slowest parts of test management, inside Jira. – The Zephyr Agent for Rovo creates test cases and links them to your work items, in the projects where your team already plans and builds. This guide covers how testing is changing in the AI age, what the agent is, where to find it, and how to run your first task.
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By Chris Armstrong
Most QA teams already track the basic metrics: how many tests ran, how many passed, how much coverage exists, and how many defects turned up. Those numbers still matter, and engineering leaders will keep asking for them. The real challenge is turning those numbers into decisions, and that gets harder as AI-assisted development speeds up the volume, frequency, and complexity of software change.
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By Joe Tong
AI is changing how software gets built. That raises the bar for every team responsible for keeping it working. SmartBear has been developing AI capabilities across the entire quality lifecycle that help teams deliver software they trust will work at AI speed and scale. Today, SmartBear announced it has achieved AWS AI Software Competency status in the Agentic AI category through the AWS Partner program.
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By Klaudia Makiej
AI has opened the door for teams to build tools they previously had to buy. With the right prompts and internal workflows, teams can generate test cases, summarize results, analyze defects, and automate parts of the testing process faster than ever. For enterprise QA and engineering leaders, that raises a practical question: “should we build our own test management layer, or adopt an AI-powered test management platform?” It’s a fair conversation to have.
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By SmartBear
Learn how to create, configure, and verify your first API contract test with SmartBear Swagger Contract Testing drift. Teams know contract testing prevents breaking API changes, but most stall out before they start – citing “we don't have time, we don't have the right skills, or we don't have the resources.” SmartBear Swagger Contract Testing removes that onboarding friction with drift, a capability that automates schema validation so you can adopt Interface-Driven Development (IDD), making your API specification the primary artifact of your build process in minutes.
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By SmartBear
Verification asks: Did we build the thing right? Validation asks: Did we build the right thing? When teams can answer both with confidence, they have more than quality software. They have application integrity: measurable assurance that the application works as intended.
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By SmartBear
Quick application integrity check: can your quality strategy survive the tsunami of code coming its way? AI is accelerating development, increasing code abstraction, and multiplying the volume of software teams need to validate. But existing QA approaches weren't built for this level of speed and scale. Application integrity closes the growing gap between what teams build and what they can verify, providing continuous assurance that software works as intended.
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By SmartBear
Learn how to automate API regression tests without writing code. In this tutorial, you'll use an OpenAPI specification to build automated API tests with SmartBear Swagger Functional Testing using a visual, low-code workflow. What this solves.
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By SmartBear
Outdated API docs and last-minute bugs cost teams time and trust. Learn how the OpenAPI Specification help you document, govern, and test your APIs from design to deployment – all inside SmartBear Swagger. SmartBear's Yousaf Nabi, Developer Advocate, and Chris Armstrong, Manager of Developer Relations, explain why API documentation drifts out of sync and walk through what's changed between OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. After covering a brief history of Swagger and the OpenAPI specification, they demo the full API workflow across Swagger.
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By SmartBear
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.
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By SmartBear
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.
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By SmartBear
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.
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By SmartBear
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.
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By SmartBear
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.
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By SmartBear
Now, more than ever, the success of your business hinges on your ability to ensure a quality Web experience for both internal and external users. We're not talking about just design, either. Your customers are demanding fast access to quality Web content that displays properly on any mobile or web device of their choosing. Download this eBook, and see if you're running the right tests to be sure your website is adapting.
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By SmartBear
We rely on APIs for critical aspects of our digital infrastructure. Much like the nails that connect and support a house's foundation, APIs ensure that the necessary parts of your digital network are connected. Understanding how they are behaving is vital to gain full visibility into the performance and availability of your digital assets.
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By SmartBear
Our AlertSite team supports businesses in monitoring and maintaining a stellar user-experience with accurate, actionable performance insights for web and mobile applications, websites, and APIs.
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By SmartBear
We've all heard the stories about the overnight sensation that took decades to achieve. The "API Revolution" has that same feel to me. Some version of APIs has been at the heart of application development for many years, but as the web application world grew more and more connected and developers learned to leverage code built outside their own application, the API industry began to boom and flourish.
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By SmartBear
When it comes to APIs, performance is just as important as accuracy. No matter how good the features and functionality of your application might be, if it performs poorly by crashing or loading slowly, your users will lose interest quickly. With this in mind, we've put together a comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of API load testing.
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By SmartBear
Where do performance testing and monitoring fit into the Agile and DevOps development process? Implementing a process for improving the performance of your applications requires the right tools to help you do it. These tools go beyond the responsibilities of your development team to ensure that applications are tested in pre-deployment and monitored after your application is live in production. This eBook will provide the tactical advice you need to implement a strategy that works for your organization.
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By SmartBear
Modern applications are developed, tested and delivered to end-users in ways that simply didn't exist five years ago. In order to meet increasingly high user expectations, businesses need to deliver higher quality software at a faster rate, and those that fail to do so will lose market share to competition that does.
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By SmartBear
There are two primary techniques for monitoring web and mobile applications-synthetic monitoring, and real monitoring-each with very different capabilities, advantages and disadvantages. How do you know which technique to use?
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By SmartBear
While APM solutions have been mitigating poor user experiences since the early 90s, only recently have these tools begun to deliver on the promise of proactively identifying and diagnosing performance issues before users are impacted-but they are still far from perfect. For starters, why the lack of unified functionality? Why do we still need multiple tools in order to deliver a single APM solution? Or do we?
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By SmartBear
Now, more than ever, the success of your business hinges on your ability to ensure a quality Web experience for both internal and external users. We're not talking about just design, either. Your customers are demanding fast access to quality Web content that displays properly on any mobile or web device of their choosing. Download this eBook, and see if you're running the right tests to be sure your website is adapting.
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SmartBear provides high-impact, easy-to-use tools for software teams to plan, build, test, and monitor great software, faster. We create the software tools that development, testing, and operations teams use to deliver the highest quality and best performing software possible, shipped at seemingly impossible velocities.
With products for code review, API and UI level testing, and monitoring across mobile, web and desktop applications, we equip every member of your team with tools to ensure quality at every stage of the software cycle.
The World’s Best Software Development Teams Use SmartBear Tools:
- SoapUI Pro integrates with your entire API delivery ecosystem, from design and mocking to issue reporting and deployment. With an open core plugin framework, integrations to the following areas make ReadyAPI and SoapUI Pro the most extensible and connected API testing suite in the world.
- With LoadUI Pro, you can reuse your functional API tests built on the industry's #1 open-source based API testing tool, SoapUI Pro to speed testing and reduce the time it takes you to deploy high performance REST and SOAP web services.
- SwaggerHub is engineered to give organizations and teams the best possible experience for maintaining and scaling their API development, from design to deployment.
- AlertSite gives you full visibility into the health of your websites, web applications, mobile applications, cloud applications, and APIs, so you can deliver an exceptional end-user experience. Key features of the AlertSite Platform include: Hybrid Deployment, Real-Time Alerts, Codeless Web Recorder, Real Browser Playback, Single-Sign On.
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