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How to scale API standards across large teams | Swagger Studio

When multiple designers and teams contribute APIs, you face inconsistent schemas, divergent patterns, and broken assumptions. However, the "shift-left" approach to API standardization helps you catch issues early, automate compliance, and maintain quality without manual gating – making your API program truly scalable. In this video, SmartBear Senior Solution Engineer Joe Joyce demonstrates how to enforce consistent API standards across large development teams using Swagger Studio's governance, collaboration, and CI/CD integration features.

How does BearQ autonomous QA work? Your top questions answered

Testing software at scale has always been a race against change. Then, AI-coding turned what was once a challenge into a crisis: rapid development cycles accelerated by AI have made it impossible to maintain comprehensive test coverage and catch issues before they impact users. In SmartBear’s Closing the AI Software Quality Gap Study, 60% of software experts told us they experienced quality issues as development outpaces testing.

Inside the SmartBear Roadmap: Delivering Application Integrity Across the SDLC

As software teams move faster across APIs, testing, and observability, keeping application integrity intact is harder than ever. Join SmartBear product leaders for a Now / Next / Later look at how we’re evolving our platform to help teams build, test, and operate software with confidence. What you’ll get from this session: Get a clear view of where SmartBear is headed and how these capabilities come together to help your teams scale quality alongside velocity across the SDLC.

SmartBear testing tools compared

AI-accelerated development has fundamentally changed how software is built, and across the industry, its impact on quality is already measurable. In SmartBear’s Closing the AI software quality gap study, we found nearly 70% of software professionals report application quality is declining as AI speeds up code generation, with development velocity increasingly outpacing teams’ ability to test effectively.

The testing disconnect that's undermining your API quality

In 2026, APIs have moved far beyond simple integration points. They’re now strategic business assets powering AI transformation, microservices architectures, and multi-cloud ecosystems. But a critical challenge threatens to undermine digital initiatives: the fragmentation of API testing. As organizations rush to deliver faster, they’re discovering that their testing infrastructure – cobbled together from disparate tools and disconnected processes – has become the bottleneck.

How to Add Intent and Metadata to OpenAPI in Swagger Studio for AI Agents

Modern APIs aren’t just read by developers anymore; they’re also interpreted by tools and AI agents. In this video, Solutions Architect Joe Joyce walks through how to enrich an OpenAPI definition in Swagger Studio with meaningful metadata such as descriptions, summaries, operation IDs, tags, schemas, and examples. You’ll see step-by-step how these additions help tools and automated agents better understand API intent, purpose, and semantics. This turns your OpenAPI definition into a contract that scales beyond documentation.

AI test automation with full visibility | Qmetry + Reflect integration

In this demo, you’ll see how Reflect and QMetry work together to connect automated testing with test management. In this short walkthrough, test execution from Reflect flows directly into QMetry, giving your team better visibility, reducing manual effort, and helping you move faster without losing control of quality. If you’re looking to scale testing while keeping everything organized and traceable, this integration is built for you.

Turn test data into release insights with AI | SmartBear MCP for Zephyr

Testing teams need to know if they’re ready for a release. Getting answers within Jira, however, often means jumping between multiple screens and reports. In this demo, see how you can query your test data with SmartBear MCP for Zephyr to get insights directly from your testing system of record, so you can make faster, more informed release decisions. From within AI tools like Copilot, Claude, or VS Code, you’ll learn how you can.

The quiet crisis in software quality - and what autonomous testing changes

There’s a tension building inside most engineering organizations right now, and not many people are talking about it openly. AI has given development teams an extraordinary gift: the ability to build faster than ever before. Features that once took days can be prototyped in hours. Applications that required large teams can now be scaffolded by a handful of engineers with the right tools. By almost every measure of development velocity, we are living through a remarkable moment.

Tester's guide to digital transformation: Why robust object recognition matters

Digital transformation rarely happens in a clean, technical environment. Most organizations aren’t starting from a blank slate – you’re operating across a mix of legacy desktop applications, internal web systems, custom-built interfaces, and business-critical workflows that must remain stable while modernization continues around them. The central challenge is whether that automation can remain reliable as underlying technologies evolve.