5 Essential Tips for Creating API Monitors

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As we have dwelled upon in a number of previous posts here at SmartBear, creating monitors for APIs you either provide or consume (or both) should be a cornerstone in your online quality strategy. Now that API Monitoring has a free version you hardly have any excuses left – right? Actually, … [Read more...]

Everything I Know About Project Management, I Learned from
Game of Thrones

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In George R.R. Martin’s masterful series, A Song of Ice and Fire (currently an HBO television show, Game of Thrones), many characters in the fantasy world of Westeros create goals, make plans, maneuver people and events toward the goal they want, and eventually realize their goal. It’s kind … [Read more...]

Thoroughly Test Your Services

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Welcome to part two of our eight-part webinar series about “The Seven Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing.” In this series, Robert Schneider, from our training-partner WiseClouds, goes through what you should be thinking about if you’re testing mission-critical services. … [Read more...]

The Feature That Made All the Difference for One Master Tester

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At SmartBear, we create software for software developers and testers. It’s definitely an interesting space to work. Unlike most software companies, our customers are not lay people who don’t really know how software works and take for granted how it runs their daily lives. Our customers … [Read more...]

Using Peer Code Reviews as a Professional Development Tool

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Over the years, I have had the privilege of working with hundreds of developers.  Overall, I have found them to be intelligent, witty, focused, incredibly funny… and also pretty isolated. Developers are most effective when they have long un-interrupted periods of time to concentrate on … [Read more...]

WebLoadUI Pro Made a Scene and This Guy Won a Kindle Fire

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We’ve had so much going on here at SmartBear that we haven’t had a chance to share with you our latest exciting release. Aligning its launch with the StarEast software testing conference on May 1st  in Orlando, WebLoadUI Pro made a buzz around our booth with many new features SmartBear’s … [Read more...]

Testers and Developers, Can We Please Get Along?

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A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the StarEAST conference in Orlando. As in past years, it was inspiring to see so many qualified testers and QA managers all under the same roof. Speaker sessions were relevant, humorous and interesting, and from the list of topics, it's evident … [Read more...]

Neverwinter’s High Priority Bug

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From the outside, writing code can seem closer to the practice of mathematics than something like painting or sculpture. Not so. Developers are inherently creative types – driven by the desire to build out their visions, taking an idea and turning it into a tangible thing of beauty, utility, … [Read more...]

How Collaborator’s Eclipse Plug-In Makes Your Life Easier

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Ask any Eclipse developer and they will tell you that they prefer to do all of their work in Eclipse, rather than toggling between multiple systems. This is especially true for code reviews. So it makes perfect sense that we created an Eclipse plug-in for Collaborator, which gives you the … [Read more...]

Advancing Network and Security Performance

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While server virtualization has actually been available for more than a decade, many IT professionals still refer to it as a relatively new technology. The comfort and familiarity of a world made up of only physical servers caused many to resist even looking into the virtual platform, but … [Read more...]

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