SmartBear

Somerville, MA, USA
2009
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Acquisition further empowers development teams to accelerate feature delivery and strengthen SmartBear Test Hub offering.
  |  By Madhup Mishra
SmartBear is thrilled to announce our acquisition of QMetry, a leader in AI-enhanced test management solutions, into the family. This merger is not merely about expanding our already robust solutions—it’s about revolutionizing the delivery of software quality across industries. In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, addressing software quality issues is critical; they can significantly impact customer satisfaction and financial growth, while flattening the quality cost curve.
  |  By Megan Donovan
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” – Steve Jobs In the world of software testing, this quote couldn’t be more relevant. If you’re a manual tester, you know the pressure to deliver high-quality results, often within tight deadlines and limited resources. Yet, with today’s fast-paced software development cycles, meeting these demands through manual testing alone is increasingly challenging.
  |  By Fitz Nowlan
They say with great power comes great responsibility. As GenAI and machine learning technologies gain prominence, the need for AI governance – structures and policies that ensure AI is used ethically, responsibly, and transparently – has become critical to long-term success. The stakes are high, and in today’s tech ecosystem, the absence of responsible AI governance could be a company’s undoing.
  |  By Klaudia Makiej
The world of quality assurance (QA) has changed, and there’s no turning back. Digital transformation is driving the need to produce high-quality software faster, while also keeping costs under control. The old idea of choosing between speed, cost-efficiency, or quality? That’s out the window. Today, you need all three to succeed, and they’ve got to work together.
  |  By Fitz Nowlan
AI is no longer just a buzzword – it’s the driving force behind the next wave of innovation in the software industry. Companies that embrace AI today are automating tasks, boosting efficiency, and unlocking new levels of productivity. However, as revolutionary as AI is, adopting it within technical software teams isn’t without its challenges. From skill shortages to navigating ethical dilemmas, businesses face a steep adoption curve.
  |  By Robert McNeil
In today’s hyper-competitive market, where users have countless options at their fingertips, one truth stands out above all: quality keeps a user. The quality of your product, particularly its user experience (UX), directly determines whether customers stay with your brand or leave for a competitor. As your business evolves an exceptional UX is crucial – achieving this starts with a thoughtful approach to test automation.
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SmartBear Recognized for Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute with its API Hub.
  |  By Frank Kilcommins
Over the last decade, many IT leaders have felt confident they were ready for the API evolution. Afterall, they invested a lot into it. Traditional API management platforms promised to deliver on transformational challenges, and offer cornerstone capabilities – API cataloguing, specification support, authentication, authorization permissions, security, policy management, and even developer portals.
  |  By Megan Donovan
In the fast-paced, highly regulated world of financial services, delivering exceptional service isn’t just about speed – it’s about managing immense complexity. As financial institutions face increasing pressure to innovate, they also carry the weight of maintaining strict security and compliance standards. Test automation is more than just a tool; it empowers teams to modernize with confidence, knowing they can meet both quality expectations and regulatory demands.
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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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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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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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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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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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Uncover the potential challenges of managing microservices and how multi-protocols APIs can help address them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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