Smartbear recognized by Gartner Magic Quadrant

SmartBear: A Visionary in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

We are excited to announce SmartBear has been named a Visionary in the 2023 Magic Quadrant by Gartner for API Management. A Magic Quadrant is a tool that provides a graphical competitive positioning of technology providers to help you make smart investment decisions. The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analyzed the company’s overall completeness …

Driving Better Developer Experience with SwaggerHub Portal

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

SmartBear is excited to announce the release of SwaggerHub Portal, a feature of SwaggerHub allowing you to customize consumer-facing documentation for your APIs to maximize API discoverability. With its intuitive interface, you can easily create onboarding guides, reference documentation, and other materials that help developers both understand and integrate your APIs into their applications. With Portal, you …

How to Dive into API Behavior and Integrate Faster

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

If you don’t understand how an API works, you can’t get the best out of it. That’s one problem. The other is that they keep increasing in number, but the quality of the documentation for each of them doesn’t. Lack of clear, quality documentation leads to more difficulty for developers, and with more difficulty comes …

API Contract Testing For A Design-First World

Wednesday, January 04, 2023

Today, API-driven microservices applications are a source of speed to innovation and competitive advantage – according to SmartBear’s most recent State of Software Quality – API report: APIs are becoming central to core internal business function: 70% of companies surveyed have been developing APIs for more than three years. And of this cohort, almost three-quarters of …

FinServ APIs: How to Improve Governance & Deploy with Confidence

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Financial services innovation continues to progress at a breakneck pace. For example, fintech developers can programmatically spin up accounts, move money, and issue and manage cards with Increase or embed financial services into their marketplace with Stripe – capabilities that were unimaginable just a few years ago. With fintech startups raising more than $50 billion …

API developer using Swaggerhub

“Plug In” to SwaggerHub for IntelliJ IDEA: A Java Developer’s New Best Friend

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Integrated development environments, or IDEs as most people call them, are the go-to tool for the majority of software developers creating, compiling, and testing code. In fact, IDEs are one of the most commons tools that developers will use when designing their API (Application Programming Interfaces) documentation. According to the 2020 State of the API Report, …

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User Management API In SwaggerHub: Why User Management Is Important

Thursday, November 18, 2021

User management is the effective management of software licenses and permissions. Employees are given a set of privileges and permissions, and their access is removed when they no longer need to use that software. The introduction of cloud-based SAAS business models has increased the importance of user management, which affects enterprises in two important ways: …

SwaggerHub wins DEVIES Award

SmartBear Wins 2021 DEVIES Award

Thursday, February 18, 2021

SwaggerHub nabs a DEVIES at DeveloperWeek 2021 for excellence in API development Somerville — February 16, 2021 — SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and quality tools, is the winner of a 2021 DEVIES Award being presented during the all-virtual DeveloperWeek 2021, taking place on February 17-19, 2021. The company’s integrated API development platform, SwaggerHub, earned the award for excellence as an API development tool. “Developer …

Swaggerhub developer perspective

A Developer’s Perspective of CI/CD Integrations with SwaggerHub

Thursday, August 13, 2020

In my career thus far I’ve been very fortunate to have held positions at various stages along the software development lifecycle and beyond. It’s given me great insight and appreciation for the demands of today’s developers. Whether I’ve been speaking to frustrated developers on a product demo, or in the depths of the code base …