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By Conna Walsh
Note: A version of this article was originally published on CIO Influence. Burnout is widespread in the world of software engineering. According to a 2023 report, 73% of developers have experienced burnout at least once in their careers, and work-life balance has been cited as a key driver of developer satisfaction. Luckily, there are tools and strategies that teams can implement to reduce mental load, prevent burnout, and improve overall developer wellbeing.
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By Conna Walsh
Visual glitches frustrate users and put the reputation of your business at risk. When people interact with an app, they expect a seamless experience. But when frame rates drop, scrolling becomes jittery, or screens freeze, frustration sets in – causing users to abandon your app and take their business elsewhere. SmartBear Insight Hub empowers developers to create high-quality user experiences on their applications. Performance monitoring is a key part of this process.
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By Conna Walsh
The financial services (FinServ) industry is constantly evolving and scaling, with global investment hitting $210 billion in 2022. Digital transformation has brought millions of customers online, and their demand for a smooth, secure, and responsive experience from financial institutions is growing fast. As the industry grows, challenges are inevitable – it seems like every week there’s a story in the news about an outage or data breach at a financial institution.
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By SmartBear
SmartBear honors the RAC for cutting testing time in half, achieving more efficient processes with Zephyr Scale's AI-based no-code automation.
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By Conna Walsh
Knowing how well your application is performing is just as important as ensuring it doesn’t crash. But what defines “good performance?” How do you know if your app is hitting the mark or falling behind? With SmartBear Insight Hub, you can now use performance targets to set and track specific benchmarks for your application’s performance metrics.
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By Fitz Nowlan
AI is moving at breakneck speed – can your enterprise keep up without breaking down? As businesses race to adopt AI, the push for innovation is relentless. But while AI promises to accelerate development and unlock new opportunities, it also opens the door to unforeseen risks. Malicious models, supply chain vulnerabilities, and unpredictable behavior can derail even the most well-intentioned AI initiatives.
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By SmartBear
With 20+ years of engineering leadership and proven track record of scaling global teams, Vineeta Puranik to lead SmartBear's tech strategy amidst accelerating AI advancements.
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By Andrew Rushworth
Digital transformation is no longer optional—it’s essential for staying competitive, driving value, and meeting evolving customer expectations. As Brian Solis puts it, “Digital transformation is to change the way you compete, how you create value, and how you can use digital tools and technology to be relevant as the world continues to evolve.” Organizations worldwide are taking this to heart, with spending on digital transformation expected to hit $3.9 trillion by 2027.
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By Prashant Mohan
The promise of AI-driven development is undeniable – faster code, quicker releases, and unprecedented innovation. But here’s the catch: AI isn’t perfect, and the code it generates could be riddled with hidden flaws. In fact, within three years, over a third of all code will be AI-generated, and much of it may introduce more bugs into production than ever before.
SmartBear Delivers AI-Driven Hubs to Transform Software Quality and Accelerate High-Quality Delivery
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By SmartBear
SmartBear API Hub and SmartBear Insight Hub allow development teams to scale seamlessly, integrate workflows, and leverage comprehensive quality and developer observability tools.
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By SmartBear
Check out this latest video from Frank Kilcommins, where he introduces our new Arazzo Specification which has just been launched on the GPT store. This GPT is an expert on the Arazzo Specification, ready to answer questions about its use, benefits, and syntax. It can interpret Arazzo documents to aid documentation and code creation, or help craft workflows with existing APIs to elevate consumer experiences.
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By SmartBear
Are you fully leveraging the power of SwaggerHub? In this video, Joe Joyce, our API Solutions Architect, showcases 5 actionable strategies to improve your API development process. Learn how to: ...and much more!
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By SmartBear
Achieve greater test coverage with less effort using parameterization, now available in Zephyr Enterprise 8.2. In this short video we will show you how you can now add global and local parameters to your tests in Zephyr, allowing for more test coverage and less maintenance for your test suites overall.
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By SmartBear
A quick video by SmartBear Solution Engineers on how you can run test complete tests within LoadNinja, our cloud based performance testing platform.
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By SmartBear
Uncover the potential challenges of managing microservices and how multi-protocols APIs can help address them.
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By SmartBear
Explores the financial and reputational impacts of poor API performance, using real-world examples to show how delays and downtime affect businesses.
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By SmartBear
An overview of the different types of API performance testing (load, stress, spike, etc.), highlighting the core benefits like preventing outages and improving user experience.
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By SmartBear
Integrating TestComplete with GitHub Actions can help you manage and run your tests more effectively and efficiently in a CI/CD environment, all while maintaining robust security and minimizing infrastructure costs.
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By SmartBear
If you’re interested in #apifirst but struggle to understand the organisational or operational drivers that might indicate a positive return on investment for adopting such approaches, then check out this session from Frank Kilcommins and Nauman Ali. They cover the topics above and showcase how visual tools, like the new Form Editor within #Swaggerhub can help break down the barriers to participation in API delivery.
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By SmartBear
Whether you're aiming for a bronze medal win in efficient testing or the coveted gold medal of a comprehensive test management strategy, this video series, put together by the Solutions Engineering team @smartbear, will help equip you with the winning techniques and tools that you need to reach the podium.
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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
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
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
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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