Software quality

Artificial Intelligence Poised to Drive API Growth, according to Nearly 40% of Respondents in Recent Survey

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Although microservices continue to be the main driver of API growth, 38% of respondents say artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as an increasingly influential driver in future growth of APIs.

Key Points: 
  • Although microservices continue to be the main driver of API growth, 38% of respondents say artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as an increasingly influential driver in future growth of APIs.
  • First published in 2016, SmartBear has regularly surveyed the API community to identify industry benchmarks, including trends, best practices, methodologies, and tools used by developer teams to manage the API lifecycle.
  • Practitioners also expect API tooling to integrate better with existing tooling as APIs cover most organizational capabilities.
  • SmartBear API experts are discussing survey findings in a live webinar on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.

SmartBear Integrates SwaggerHub and PactFlow Contract Testing for Increased API Developer Visibility

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and visibility tools, has integrated the powerful contract testing capabilities of PactFlow with SwaggerHub , the company’s award-winning API development platform.

Key Points: 
  • SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and visibility tools, has integrated the powerful contract testing capabilities of PactFlow with SwaggerHub , the company’s award-winning API development platform.
  • “This integration is a decisive step toward our goal of a comprehensive API development lifecycle platform, combining the best of a design-first API development workflow and API contract testing, a modern approach to testing microservices,” said Sean Butler, VP Product Management, API at SmartBear.
  • Contract testing is a modern approach for testing APIs that mitigates these issues.
  • For more information on API contract testing, go to:

SmartBear Releases State of Software Quality | Testing Report

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and visibility tools, released the results of its fifth annual State of Software Quality | Testing survey conducted over five weeks earlier this year.

Key Points: 
  • SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and visibility tools, released the results of its fifth annual State of Software Quality | Testing survey conducted over five weeks earlier this year.
  • This report illustrates the many challenges in maintaining quality and the need for partners like SmartBear to help organizations with all their testing and quality needs.
  • The report covers testing sentiments, challenges, and trends in test automation, test management, API testing, UI testing, and performance testing.
  • SmartBear experts are walking through the 2022 State of Software Quality | Testing report, discussing key trends and observations, in a live webinar on Wednesday, November 2, 2022.

SwaggerHub Now Supports Event-Driven AsyncAPI Specification for Teams Using Multiple API Standards

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

AsyncAPI is the leading specification to document and describe event-driven API architectures, including Apache Kafka.

Key Points: 
  • AsyncAPI is the leading specification to document and describe event-driven API architectures, including Apache Kafka.
  • Adding AsyncAPI event-driven architecture capabilities to SwaggerHub increases the ability for enterprises to have visibility into API estates across multiple specifications.
  • The findings also showed that 81% of respondents use more than one API specification with 57% using three or more.
  • Thousands of teams use SwaggerHub to drive standardization and secure collaboration across the API development lifecycle, including more than 100,000 API practitioners in more than 40,000 organizations and 200,000 API projects.

Hundreds of ethical hackers in defense of Talent Protocol blockchain so that investments in the best digital talents careers around the world are safer

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Thursday, June 9, 2022

MILAN, June 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A professional Web3 network, where high-potential talent can build an on-chain resume and launch a talent token, allowing anyone to easily invest in their careers. This is Talent Protocol, a professional network born in 2021 (and now renewed in design and contents) where anyone can discover and support high-potential individuals in the blockchain.

Key Points: 
  • The new Talent Protocol network, for high-potential talents who aim to create or contribute to innovative projects, has just been released.
  • WhiteJar is among the very few Italian companies to deal with cybersecurity also in the blockchain sector.
  • This is Talent Protocol , a professional network born in 2021 (and now renewed in design and contents) where anyone can discover and support high-potential individuals in the blockchain.
  • All this takes place through a WhiteJar Crowdsourced Security Platform (CSSP) in which clients and Ethical Hackers can interact in real time.

Increasing cybersecurity posture: Milkman Technologies chooses WhiteJar's ethical solution

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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

MILAN, April 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- 2021 was the year that saw a surge in digitisation processes, but it was also a period in which cyber attacks grew exponentially, with about 10% more than in 2020. According to the 2022 Clusit Report, in 2020, 1871 serious cyber attacks took place, growing by +12% globally. Among the most vulnerable sectors are Automotive (+200%), Research-Education (+128%), Hospitality – Hotels, Restaurants and Residences (+69%), Health (+62%), Institutions (+62%), Cloud Services (+52%) and Consulting Services (+50%)[1].

Key Points: 
  • Many of the world's leading multinationals in various sectors have been breached despite the high levels of cybersecurity adopted.
  • Setting an example by investing in effective and powerful cybersecurity servicesand opting to be totally invulnerable is the approach chosen by Milkman Technologies .
  • "At Milkman Technologies, safety is of the utmost importance as we need to ensure secure environments for customers and partners who use our technology.
  • Milkman Technologies was founded in Italy in 2015 by two veterans of route optimisation for commercial fleets.

Futuris Company Announces New Staffing Program and Welcomes Steve Crowell as VP of IT Staffing

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Mr. Steve Crowell has joined Futuris Company as the Vice President of IT Staffing.

Key Points: 
  • Mr. Steve Crowell has joined Futuris Company as the Vice President of IT Staffing.
  • Mr. Crowell founded IQS in 2005 as a software quality assurance and testing company.
  • Mr. Crowell is a former VP of a Fortune 500 Financial and Insurance company.
  • Mr. Crowell is excited to be joining Futuris as the VP of IT Staffing and sees tremendous opportunities in the staffing sector in the Minneapolis/St Paul market.

80% of Those Satisfied with Software Quality Participate in Tool-based Code Review Says Survey by SmartBear

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and quality tools, released the findings of its 8th annual State of Software Quality | Code Review survey.

Key Points: 
  • SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and quality tools, released the findings of its 8th annual State of Software Quality | Code Review survey.
  • With nearly 800 respondents, code review remains the biggest influence on improving code quality with unit testing a distant second.
  • 47% of those unsatisfied with their code review process are neglecting tool-based code review entirely.
  • 55% of respondents who are satisfied or highly satisfied with their code review process regularly pull metrics reports.

SmartBear Releases Results of 2021 State of Software Quality | API Survey

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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and quality tools, has released the results of its annual State of Software Quality | API survey .

Key Points: 
  • SmartBear , a leading provider of software development and quality tools, has released the results of its annual State of Software Quality | API survey .
  • First published in 2016, SmartBear has continuously surveyed the API community to identify industry benchmarks regarding the trends, best practices, methodologies, and tools used by software teams to manage the API lifecycle.
  • Key insights of the State of Software Quality | API survey include:
    A majority of API practitioners operate in a multi-protocol landscape.
  • SmartBear API experts will discuss key findings and more from the survey in a live webinar on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.

Rookout Announces Support for Golang and Brings Dynamic Observability to Kubernetes, Enabling Developers to Troubleshoot Containerized Apps on the Fly

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Monday, October 4, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rookout , the dynamic observability platform, today announces their brand new cloud-native debugging experience, which will bring dynamic observability to Kubernetes.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rookout , the dynamic observability platform, today announces their brand new cloud-native debugging experience, which will bring dynamic observability to Kubernetes.
  • What we are seeing is an important evolution of the Observability space to dynamic instrumentation, said Shahar Fogel, CEO of Rookout.
  • Rookout is also announcing support for the Go programming language alongside its existing support for Java, .NET, Node.JS, Python, and Ruby.
  • With Rookout, software teams save hours of work and reduce debugging and logging time by 80% with zero friction, overhead, or risk.