[July 20, 2016]

SmartBear Brings Ready! API Testing Power to Millions of Visual Studio Developers

SmartBear Software, the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, is bringing the power of its Ready! API testing framework to API developers using the most popular coding languages in the world. Now developers using Visual Studio to build software leveraging the open source .NET (News - Alert) Framework can ensure API quality directly from within their primary workspace.

Launched in March 2016 with similar support for Java developers using tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ and others, the latest TestServer .NET capabilities are introduced as part of the broader update to the Ready! API testing framework. By delivering these open source TestServer SDKs for Java and .NET framework languages, SmartBear ensures that developers can express their API functional tests in their preferred coding language.

"As testing obligations continue to spread throughout API development and test organizations, a phenomenon many refer to as 'Shifting Left,' application providers must become smarter about their user expectations," said John Purcell, Vice President of Products, API Readiness at SmartBear. "It is simply not reasonable to assume development and test professionals will automatically adjust their workflows to adopt a tool. In fact, the opposite must happen."

With this Ready! API 1.8 release, SmartBear is delivering key improvements to both desktop and server components of the framework. Organizations seriously commited to API quality can:

• Enable users to move to more comprehensive, multi-component, real-world API testing by importing simple tests built using Postman into SoapUI NG Pro
• Eliminate inter-organizational dependencies by putting API virtualization in the hands of every developer and intuitively manage more granular routing rules across ever-larger numbers of Virts in ServiceV Pro
• Acknowledge that everyone is accountable for API security and make it easy for them to quickly find and diagnose security vulnerabilities at a deeper level using Secure Pro

The 2016 survey conducted by SmartBear on API usage and development revealed that almost 40 percent of all respondents wanted to see easier integration between tools in the near future. As testing obligations continue to shift left in software organizations, this integration challenge grows in importance.

About the Ready! API Framework
SmartBear's API Readiness framework, Ready! API, is a unified set of graphical and code-based testing tools that includes SoapUI NG for functional testing, LoadUI NG Pro for load testing, ServiceV Pro for API service virtualization, Secure Pro for dynamic API security testing and TestServer for Continuous Integration environments. For more information, visit: https://smartbear.com/product/ready-api/overview/. For updates, follow @ready_api on Twitter (News - Alert).

About SmartBear Software
As the leader in software quality tools for the connected world, SmartBear supports more than four million software professionals and over 25,000 organizations in 194 countries that use its products to build and deliver the world's greatest applications. With today's applications deploying on mobile, Web, desktop, Internet of Things (IoT) or even embedded computing platforms, the connected nature of these applications through public and private APIs presents a unique set of challenges for developers, testers and operations teams. SmartBear's software quality tools assist with code review, functional and load testing, API readiness as well as performance monitoring of these modern applications. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or for the SmartBear community, go to: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or Google+.

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