Ship production-ready APIs faster and confidently with SmartBear ReadyAPI | Demo Den

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.

Thomas generates tests directly from an OpenAPI spec using AI Test Generation (Beta), reuses that same test to build load and security tests without rewriting scripts, and virtualizes a credit bureau API to keep testing moving even when a dependency is down. ReadyAPI presents every AI-generated test for review before it runs, so your team stays in control of what ships. Hosted by Vyshnavi Dabbir, senior product marketing manager at SmartBear.

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00:00 API testing overview

00:49 Common API testing challenges

02:43 AI test generation from OpenAPI specs

07:23 API security testing

08:05 API load testing with ReadyAPI

09:43 Service virtualization for API testing

12:06 CI/CD API test automation

13:20 Scaling API testing with AI

15:15 Final thoughts