“By integrating load testing capabilities into TestComplete, SmartBear is empowering its customers to enhance software quality through streamlined testing workflows,” said Prashant Mohan, Senior Director of Product Management at SmartBear. “With the ability to automate both functional and load testing from a single location, our customers can now conduct thorough and efficient testing, ensuring their applications perform reliably under heavy loads.”

This integration allows testers to quickly convert existing functional tests into load tests, providing a faster and more efficient way to prepare your application for peak usage. Testers can also leverage AI-driven self-healing featuring SmartBear HaloAI to ensure that load tests remain relevant and effective, even as the application evolves. With this integration, testers can now automate a full-scale UI test suite composed of essential testing types, including functional testing, visual testing, device cloud testing, and load testing, giving teams exceptional testing coverage within a single tool.

“We can execute tests from our end users’ point of view, unlike other tools that can’t accurately understand the differences from yesterday’s build to today’s,” said Alexei Karas, software test automation professional. “Self-healing with TestComplete also makes load testing easier by enabling us to check, verify, and guarantee that my load tests recorded in the past still correspond to today’s reality.”

SmartBear has also launched test data generation featuring HaloAI. This new offering provides additional test data generation capabilities, delivering a more advanced and customizable solution. With the power of HaloAI, users can put their growing LLM skills to work, inputting simple-text commands to generate tailored datasets that better suit their specific testing needs. This approach not only streamlines the creation process but also ensures the security of customer data by generating it directly within TestComplete, eliminating the risk of using external LLM tools. Testers can quickly and easily create realistic and diverse datasets, enhancing the quality and effectiveness of their data-driven tests.

To learn more, register for the webinar, “Test Automation Just Got Stronger & Simpler,” at: https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/launch-alert-test-automation-just-got-stronger-sim/

For more information, go to: https://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/

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BugCrowd hires Braden Russell as new CPO

As CPO, Russell will be in charge of all R&D groups at the company, including product, engineering, infrastructure, and data science. 

He was most recently chief technology officer of the CrowdStrike’s Falcon platform and SIEM solution. He’s also held leadership roles at Foundstone, McAfee, Intel Security, and Cylance. 

“As we continue to rapidly accelerate, drive innovation on our platform, and plan additional acquisitions, it became clear that we needed a leader with the experience of scaling large SaaS platforms to hundreds of millions in revenue,” said Dave Gerry, CEO of Bugcrowd. “Braden is a cybersecurity leader with 20 years of both strategic and technical experience. I’m eager to work closely with him as we continue our rapid momentum alongside customers, hackers, and partners.”

Jens Wessling named CTO of Veracode

Wessling was previously the company’s chief architect, and has over 25 years of experience in the cloud space. He will be taking over for Chris Wysopal, who is also the company’s co-founder, who will be stepping into the role of chief security evangelist.

“Chief Security Evangelist is a natural evolution of my role and fulfills my passion for ensuring security is at the heart of software development, deployment and maintenance,” Wysopal said. “This is a perfect fit for me as I am passionate about helping security professionals at every level solve their most pressing cybersecurity challenges. I am equally proud to hand over the CTO reigns to Jens, who has a strong track record of driving technical excellence, so Veracode can deliver even more innovation and secure the software supply chain.”

Quickbase makes multiple new executive hires

These include Kelly Hall as chief customer officer and Matthew Person as senior vice president of corporate development. 

Hall was previously Cisco’s vice president of customer success and acceleration, and before that she held leadership roles at CA Technologies, Vision Critical, Malwarebytes, and BMC Software. Person was most recently leading corporate development for the real estate analytics company Green Street, and has also worked at Stepping Stones Group and Capstone Partners. 

“Our goal is to make Quickbase, our platform and capabilities, more valuable to our customers, especially those in physical industries historically underserved by technology,” said Ed Jennings, CEO of Quickbase. “To do this, we’re building a team that can help us provide a fast, easy, and affordable path for our customers and prospects to discover, try, and implement custom industry solutions, meeting them where they are with a combination no-code applications, AI capabilities, integrations to extend existing technology investments, and industry-specific functionality and support. That mix of deep industry expertise in solving complex operational problems, our library of custom applications, and unmatched customer service will help us win market share and stand out from competitors.”

Ron Trackey joins SmartBear in SVP role

Specifically, Trackey is now the SVP of product management and design, and will guide the direction of SmartBear products and user experience. He was previously Digital.ai’s vice president of product management.

He’s also held leadership roles at Carbonite (acquired by OpenText), RSA Security, and Microsoft. 

“I’m thrilled to join the SmartBear team and bring my experience in building and leading product organizations to the company that is positioned to help development and testing teams solve their complex problems and create software that truly drives exceptional customer experiences,” he said.  

Kim Basile named CIO of Kyndryl

She has been at the company for over two years, originally in the role of vice president of IT transformation and strategy. She is replacing Michael Bradshaw, who will now be leading Applications, Data, and AI for the company. It was also announced that Nicolas Sekkani will become the new practice leader for the company’s Cloud practice. 

“Kim has been a vital leader in Kyndryl’s digital transformation, which makes for a smooth transition to CIO,” said Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO of Kyndryl. “She has deep expertise in cybersecurity, risk mitigation, compliance and business resiliency, which makes her an ideal candidate for this role.”

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According to the company, Stoplight helps simplify the API development process by providing an intuitive interface for design. This makes API design accessible to non-technical users and streamlines the process for technical users.

“SmartBear’s mission is to empower customers with the solutions and capabilities they need to drive quality and efficiency across development teams,” said Sean Butler, vice president of product management at SmartBear. “Integrating Stoplight’s advanced API design features into SwaggerHub highlights this commitment to enhance the API development lifecycle, particularly critical now with the onslaught of AI-related APIs. Customers can expect multiple benefits, including a seamless developer experience from API design to deployment,” said Sean Butler, vice president of product management at SmartBear. 

This follows the platform’s recent integration with the API style guide enforcer Spectral, which provided API authors with new features to help ensure API quality, such as advanced linting, style guide enforcement, and a user-friendly design interface. In addition to improving overall API quality, these features also help ensure a consistent API portfolio and reduce potential errors. 

Later this year the company also plans to incorporate Prism into SwaggerHub, which will allow developers to create mock servers based on their API definitions.

Additionally, SmartBear revealed its intention to reorganize its product portfolio of over 20 solutions into three categories: API Hub, Test Hub, and Insight Hub.  

“As SmartBear realigns its product offerings into intuitive solution hubs, the integration of Stoplight’s tools into SwaggerHub exemplifies our dedication to solving the real-world challenges faced by our customers. The journey towards improved API design, flexible documentation, and reliable APIs is a collaborative effort. We are committed to providing the tools and support needed to navigate this journey successfully,” SmartBear wrote in a blog post. 

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SmartBear believes this new integration will make visual regression testing more accessible. Testers can run visual tests and then compare screenshots across runs, without needing to write automation scripts.  

“Historically, visual testing has been difficult to automate due to false positives that create extra manual work,” said Prashant Mohan, senior director of product management at SmartBear. “Now our new codeless AI solution adds human-like capabilities to automate visual testing in an efficient way. It can catch visual bugs that functional tests miss while also filtering out false positives, maximizing workflow efficiency.”

VisualTest highlights only the changes in an application, while filtering out expected changes and ignoring false positives. Testers can then compare changes to baseline images to fix any issues. 

TestComplete also comes with an add-on called Intelligent Quality that uses AI to reduce test maintenance and accelerate test creation. It provides capabilities like self-healing tests, OCR, and ML-based visual grid recognition.  

Both VisualTest and TestComplete also integrate with BitBar, which is a mobile and web testing solution. The three work together to reduce context switching when testing across visual, web, and real devices.

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“We continue to put our customers at the center of our strategies and deliver on their needs by expanding our product portfolio through innovative enhancements to our popular solutions used by millions of developers, testers, and software engineers worldwide,” said Dan Faulkner, chief product officer at SmartBear.

The first update is in BugSnag, a developer-focused monitoring platform. Earlier this year the company had acquired Aspecto, which is an OpenTelemetry-based company, and now SmartBear has integrated its distributed tracing capabilities into the BugSnag platform.

By adding distributed tracing to its platform, SmartBear is providing its customers with the ability to monitor errors and correlate them across traces, logs, and metrics to determine the root cause.  

Next up, it launched a developer portal for finding SmartBear APIs within the SwaggerHub Portal, which is a marketplace for finding APIs that the company launched in August. According to the company, this new portal will help companies more quickly get started with SmartBear products.

SmartBear also released updates to the test management solution Zephyr Squad Cloud. New features include a test case library, n-level folder structure for test cycles, reordering of test executions, enhanced test cycle details, and advanced reporting of test execution results. 

“Whether you are a seasoned QA professional, a developer, or a project manager, this update will make your testing process faster, more efficient, and more user-friendly than ever before,” SmartBear wrote in a blog post.

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Stoplight’s open-source catalog of Prism, Spectral, and Elements will also join up with SmartBear’s open-source projects: Swagger, SoapUI, and Pact. According to SmartBear, these communities are made up of tens of millions of developers in total. 

SmartBear believes this acquisition will help it achieve its goal to build a developer-centric platform. Recent moves towards this goal have included integrating PactFlow into API design workflows, adding support for AsyncAPI and OAS 3.1, and adding two new tools: Explore and Portal. 

SmartBear’s timeline for the acquisition is that it will start to incorporate Stoplight features in the first half of 2024. Stoplight customers will retain ongoing access to their platform as well, and will benefit from new features being added.

“With the addition of Stoplight, SmartBear accelerates its commitment to investing in API capabilities where developers need it most to help them develop high quality, complex software at scale,” said Dan Faulkner, chief product officer at SmartBear. “We are delighted to join forces with Stoplight’s team to deliver the best of our industry-leading capabilities in a unified way. As one of the largest supporters of API open source communities, we also welcome Stoplight’s OS communities and look forward to growing in strength and numbers.”

Stoplight’s CEO Harrison Yeager added: “We are thrilled to join forces with SmartBear and embark on this exciting journey together. This powerful combination will accelerate the enhancement of products, support, and resources that will elevate developer and API experiences. Our shared vision and collective expertise will enable us to deliver even greater value to the market and our trusted customers. Together, we are poised to set new standards in API lifecycle management and drive innovation for development teams worldwide.”

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This developer-centric tool enables API providers to create personalized landing pages, offering consumers comprehensive resources for easy API implementation. The SwaggerHub Portal integrates with SwaggerHub, a popular API design and documentation tool, as well as Explore, an API client supporting REST and event-driven specifications. 

This integration also allows teams of any size to explore, design, test, and document APIs all in one place, aiming to enhance the developer experience.

“SmartBear is focused on API-first development, helping developers to solve their challenges when it comes to design, documentation, testing, and adoption,” said Sean Butler, vice president of product management at SmartBear. “With a growing number of APIs available, providers need help with discoverability and onboarding. To address this challenge, we are excited to launch these two innovative milestones – SwaggerHub Portal and its integration with SwaggerHub Explore – as we advance toward the SmartBear API Developer Lifecycle platform to deliver the best developer experiences in the industry.”

SlashData found that more than 90% of developers use APIs regularly, with 69% relying on third-party APIs. However, successful API implementation depends on discoverability. SwaggerHub Portal addresses this by enhancing visibility and adoption, enabling providers to easily onboard consumers for a better customer experience.

SwaggerHub’s integration with Portal allows developers to generate documentation from their API designs with zero context switching. This minimizes time to market, making their APIs easy to discover and adopt. Development teams, whether code-first, design-first, or hybrid, can generate documentation from Explore, no longer needing to start from scratch when documenting, SmartBear explained.

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“Performance issues in mobile and web applications can seriously impact end user satisfaction and ultimately the successful adoption of your product,” said Anthony Bryce, Vice President of Product Management at SmartBear. “To be successful, development teams must continually observe and optimize the performance of their applications. As developers take on more responsibilities to understand the impact of poor user experiences, we are leveraging our strength in error monitoring to provide modern development teams with 24/7 performance monitoring of their applications with real-world data to identify, prioritize, and resolve performance issues with confidence.”

Gaining cost-effective and scalable insights into application performance for organizations of all sizes is a consistent challenge in the developer observability space. The data required can be difficult to determine and costly to store. To avoid high and often surprising costs, BugSnag with RUM dynamically samples performance data on a daily basis so development teams can control their operational costs and never unintentionally go over the data volume in which they choose to pay. The way BugSnag collects data is also OpenTelemetry compliant, enabling customers to utilize the collected data with other OTel-based observability solutions.

“BugSnag with RUM gives valuable insight into the real-world performance of Concepts, an award-winning app used by millions of creative people worldwide as a flexible space for thinking, planning, and drawing, across the many devices and platforms we support,” said David Brittain, CEO at TopHatch. “Ensuring that our app is fluid and responsive is important to our customers, and this is a powerful tool to help deliver on that promise.”

BugSnag with real user monitoring provides an intuitive UI with dashboard overviews of key metrics such as app start up times, page loads, and web vitals. It also provides timeline views to identify performance trends, span filters by stage, release, and more, as well as waterfall views of performance traces to zero in on specific performance issues. Its rapid identification and resolution of performance issues means higher performing apps, increased customer engagement, and customer loyalty.

“Given several factors, including demand for improved user experience and increasing complexity of software systems, the observability market continues to evolve,” said Stephen Elliot, Group Vice President, I&O, Cloud Operations, and DevOps at IDC. “As developers and platform engineering teams take on more responsibility for service reliability, those teams need developer observability tools that give them the visibility they need to improve customer experience in a way that supports modern software development practices.”

For more information on BugSnag with RUM, including a free trial, go to: https://www.bugsnag.com/

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SwaggerHub Explore is a part of the SmartBear API Developer Lifecycle platform and an integrated part of SwaggerHub that enables developers to learn more about API behaviors, allowing them to cut back on time and effort during the integration process.

This release brings developers a free API exploration tool that allows them to speed up the development lifecycle by offering the ability to visualize API data in one place as well as evaluate functionality prior to investing time in API integration. 

According to SmartBear, this is a major developer challenge that SwaggerHub Explore is intended to fix while also speeding up the development of high-quality software with limited resources.

“SwaggerHub Explore is a developer-centric tool that brings new innovation to the SmartBear API lifecycle portfolio of solutions,” said Sean Butler, vice president of product management at SmartBear. “Developers can now gain increased visibility into API endpoints while better understanding their functionality. SmartBear continues delivering confidence behind developers’ code with SwaggerHub Explore.” 

To learn more, visit the website. 

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VisualTest utilizes AI in its regression testing to discover these visual errors. It also provides visibility into development components across the software development life cycle. 

It automatically takes screenshots of the application, compares it to previous versions, and highlights any visual changes that are present.

Because VisualTest makes use of AI, it is able to track several types of visual changes while ignoring false positives. 

According to SmartBear, existing visual testing methods are “unreliable, time consuming, and cumbersome to maintain,” and applying AI is necessary to solve these common problems. 

The new tool integrates with BitBar, which is SmartBear’s mobile and web testing tool. SmartBear believes that integration will help reduce the need to context switch when doing tests. 

In addition to being integrated with BitBar, VisualTest is compatible with Cypress, Selenium Python, and Selenium Java.

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