Yesterday we announced general availability of our API Complete capability. API Complete is a solution set that drives quality and collaboration from development through testing and operations for APIs and Web services.This is an effort I am personally incredibly proud of as it delivers on our mission to bridge the DevOps divide by providing tools that work together using a common set of development, testing and performance monitoring assets. API Testing and Monitoring API Complete leverages 3 SmartBear products: soapUI  – the world’s most popular API and Web Services testing tool for developers and QA analysts to create scripted ...

This is the final installment of blogs in the Top 5 Agile Testing Challenges series. You can view the prior blogs or download a more detailed white paper, here:  Agile Testing Challenges - Web Services Testing Issues Agile Testing Challenges - Finding Defects Early Agile Testing Challenges - Broken Builds Agile Testing Challenges: Inadequate Test Coverage Five Challenges for Agile Testing Teams: Solutions to Improve Agile Testing Results (white paper) Agile development is a faster, more efficient and cost-effective method of delivering high-quality software. However, agile presents testing challenges beyond those of waterfall development. That’s because agile ...

While the cloud offers many benefits, it’s more like a black box when it comes to deploying software. If you are running your application in the cloud, there is less visibility than you might have in your own data center. That puts quality at risk! So, how do you manage a black box? You manage the inputs and outputs. To do this you need an end to end testing and monitoring framework for your cloud-dependent application. This framework needs to measure functional accuracy as well as application response time, both in the lab during development and test, and at the ...

As with any major release, the CodeCollaborator team has received a steady stream of feedback on version 7.0 since its January release. What’s impressed us the most is how focused and passionate our users have been about the features they use every day. With the release of version 7.1 we’ve listened to our users and made improvements to key areas of the user interface. We have also introduced a few entirely new features that should make this service release a must have for all of our customers. This release also includes performance enhancements for older versions of Internet Explorer. Take ...

Maintaining a Speedy “Fan Experience” at StubHub An interesting article in the just-published May issue of Internet Retailer examines the complexities of delivering speedy website performance for eCommerce companies. It spotlights one of our customers, StubHub, the world's largest online ticket marketplace where fans buy and sell tickets to popular sporting and music events. Web and Mobile Site Challenges What fans don’t see when visiting StubHub’s Web or mobile site is the sheer intricacy of each page. All they expect is for content to load fast and work well. This is an ever-complex challenge as today’s Web and mobile sites ...

Want to make your Agile QA Testing more re-usable? Want to track your Agile testing tasks and review progress? Take a look at our newest release of ALMComplete and QAComplete 9.7.5! Parameterized Tests Have you ever needed to run a specific test case multiple times using different data? For example, let’s say you have a test for logging into your software and you want to test that with five different UserId / Password combinations. In many testing systems, you would have to write five distinct test cases, and if you needed to add or remove steps from the test case, ...

Last week I delivered a Webinar entitled, “How to Implement Code Reviews that Don’t Suck.” I focused my presentation on how to overcome common challenges to getting a successful code review process in place. This is an important topic, because as clear as the benefits are, there are often social, organizational, and education barriers to getting started, being productive, and achieving and measuring success. If you are interested, you can view the On-Demand recording of the Webinar at the link above. The focus of this blog post is to answer some of the questions we had during the ...

Yes, SmartBear was scoping out the STAREAST Conference in Orlando last week. It was a well-organized and well attended event. As an attendee put it – “I had budget to attend one conference this year and I chose this one because of the community. It is the community of testers that makes events like this exciting and worth attending.” One element of this mix is the opportunity to hear and mingle with community leaders like Michael Bolton, James Bach and Scott Barber. Hello, performance testing! The other is to drink coffee and have corridor conversations with real people bothered ...

Earlier this week Luxury Daily reported on AlertSite’s analysis of the Web page load speeds and site availability of the top luxury brands in retail and automotives in Q1 of 2012. It’s clear that, unlike several other industry sectors, luxury brands take the quality of their website performance just as seriously as the quality of their products and services. What can other businesses learn from the luxury brands we monitor with AlertSite? For one thing, size matters. All brands need to be conscious of the size of the images they are putting on their home pages.  The larger the ...

The latest version of soapUI, soapUI 4.5, brings us a new approach to validation. The key improvements are: A new dialog for adding assertions The Message Content Assertion The Assertion Test Step. Improved Assertion Adding A new dialog for adding an assertion now presents them in categories and adds small and clear explanations to each assertion. This way you can easily explore all assertions and find one that you are looking for or choose a different one. This dialog has two versions; one when you are adding an assertion to a request test step and for Assertion Test ...