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Asked a question in our BearQ livestream? We’ve got your answers. We received 100+ questions during the event and couldn’t get to all of them live, so we pulled together the most common ones and answered them here. In this video, we break down what BearQ can test, how it handles authentication and complex workflows, how the AI works behind the scenes, how it fits into your existing tools, and even how to get early access.

Missed the live event? Here’s a quick look at what we unveiled. AI has fundamentally changed how applications are built, creating a growing gap between development velocity and your ability to validate what’s being built. That’s why SmartBear delivers application integrity for the AI era – ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that your software just works as intended, with governance to operate at AI speed and scale.

AI has transformed software development, dramatically increasing velocity. The challenge now is maintaining quality at that speed. Engineering leaders across the industry are searching for a real answer. On March 18, we’re unveiling our solution. Join our livestream for an exclusive product reveal featuring special guest, John Romero. A legend in the industry and the perfect voice to help us unveil what we've been building.

Agent-powered code generation is happening at unprecedented speed, creating a growing gap between development velocity and your ability to validate what's being built. This leaves organizations unsure if their applications are doing what's intended or missing what's required. That's why SmartBear delivers application integrity for the AI era – ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that your software just works as intended, with governance to operate at AI speed and scale.

The AI revolutionized coding, but software testing hasn’t caught up. Until now. Meet BearQ: QA built for the age of AI. BearQ introduces a new paradigm of autonomous, agentic quality assurance. Instead of static scripts and brittle frameworks, BearQ’s specialized AI agents – the QA Lead Agent, Tester Agent, and Explorer Agent – work continuously to: Testing was a static checkpoint. Now it’s a living, learning system that ensures application integrity.

Poorly documented or inconsistent error models lead to brittle clients and unreliable automation. Whether you're building APIs for human developers or AI agents, proper error handling is crucial for automation and reliability. In this guided tutorial, SmartBear Solutions Engineer Rosemary Charnley demonstrates how to design robust error models in OpenAPI specifications using Swagger Studio.

API design, functional testing, and governance shouldn’t live in silos. In this demo, Product Owner Wojciech Nowacki walks through a practical, end-to-end workflow that connects: You’ll see how API definitions created in Studio feed directly into automated functional testing ensuring style compliance, functional correctness, and governance checks across the full API lifecycle. Perfect for API platform teams, architects, and developers looking to unify design and test automation.

As AI agents increasingly interact with APIs, design clarity and structured metadata matter more than ever. In this focused demo, Senior Solutions Engineer Mairtín Conneely take us through how to use Spectral rulesets in Swagger Studio to automatically enforce AI-ready API design standards across your OpenAPI definitions. This video covers:What “AI-ready” API design meansCreating custom Spectral rulesImporting governance rules into Swagger StudioRunning automated AI-readiness checksScaling API quality with governance automation.

Create a single mobile test that runs reliably on both iOS and Android - without building separate tests per platform or relying on brittle, platform-specific locators. In this high-level demo, we use SmartBear Reflect’s vision-based AI to record a typical workflow in a sample coffee app, where each step is backed by visual context and intent. Then we run the same test across a mix of Apple and Android devices, including an iPhone, to show how Reflect adapts to the environment at runtime and helps reduce flakiness and false positives.

In this video, you’ll discover how SmartBear QMetry's AI-powered test generation automatically transforms requirements into complete, executable test cases within minutes. Watch as we demonstrate test generation cases from Jira, Rally, and Azure requirements, demonstrate how to refine existing tests, and save your teams hours of manual work.