Automating API testing just got easier
Friday, June 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
SmartBear released a new update to SoapUI Pro, an automated API testing tool. SoapUI Pro 2.4 provides a new native Jenkins plugin for easy integration with the popular CI/CD tool and has enhanced the API Discovery capability to convert API traffic to automated API tests.
As organizations move to shift their testing into earlier development phases and adopt Agile prac...
New API testing tool will tell developers if their API works
Friday, January 26, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
SmartBear has announced the release of Swagger Inspector, a free cloud-based API testing and documentation tool to simplify the validation of any API and generate its OpenAPI documentation. Swagger Inspector is the first step the Swagger team is taking to reimagine the way APIs are tested and documented.The API economy has captured the attention of business and technolo...
Lowcode app development considerations
Friday, September 8, 2017 by Richard Harris
Love them or hate them, low-code platforms have made some notable impacts in the enterprise mobile app software development industry. The simple ease of use and low costs of such platforms at the expense of some creative freedoms has proven to be a revolutionary practice.That's why we sat down and had a chat with the experts to learn more on how low-code fares in the pr...
ImmuniWeb Mobile launches to offer better mobile security testing
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
High-Tech Bridge announces the launch of ImmuniWeb Mobile as part of ImmuniWeb Application Security Testing Platform. The new offering will provide comprehensive assessment of iOS and Android mobile applications, mobile infrastructure backend and data channel encryption. All ImmuniWeb Mobile packages are provided with a zero false-positives SLA. The mobile application s...
Why smart apps will be the next phase in business app development
Thursday, October 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
It all started with desktop applications, then it moved to the web, then to mobile, then to multi-channel applications. With each new wave came new uses thanks to technological advancements. Smart Apps mark the next step in the app story. With the rise of the internet of things (IoT), big data and machine learning, it makes sense for apps to evolve to incorporate these ...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
Solving the Twin Problems of Speed and Access in Payments
Tuesday, September 13, 2016 by Dave Matter
People want payment to be instantaneous and painless. While that may never be absolutely true, the industry is getting better. What’s driving these improvements are two interconnected trends: shrinking latency and the decline of the walled garden. Working together, the payments community has the ability to create a faster, better industry – and ultimately a ...
SmartBear Adds .NET Framework Functionality to Its API Testing Framework
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced that API developers using Visual Studio to build software using the open source .NET Framework can now utilize the SmartBear’s Ready! TestServer API testing framework.In April SmartBear announced similar support for Java developers using tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ and others. With the .Net announcement developers can now use the open s...
Appvance Releases Software Quality Assurance Test Automation Solution
Sunday, May 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Appvance has introduced Appvance UTP an DevOps friendly software quality assurance (SQA) automation solution for enterprise software and application testing.The UTP platform unifies all quality assurance (QA) automation with the Appvance write-once methodology to advance continuous integration and delivery of applications. It streamlines QA and expand collaboration and ...
Altova MobileTogether 2.0 Now Lets You Submit Directly to the App Stores
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Altova has released version 2.0 of its MobileTogether mobile development framework for creating for multi-platform, data-centric apps. This latest version now gives developers a new option called AppStore deployment, which lets them submit the created app directly to the app stores on a number of platforms.The new AppStore deployment adds to MobileTogether’s existing In...
AnyPresences's Ambitious New Platform Release Offers API and IoT Functionality
Monday, August 31, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence has announced a major change in how the company will approach its product offerings as it moves its solutions beyond traditional MBaaS and API management towards a comprehensive solution for API-driven enterprise app development and IoT ecosystem enablement.This new direction enables rapid API development, direct connectivity to APIs from client SDKs, and ge...
SmartBear's API Tools Suite Offers New API Switching and Recording Features
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced updates to two of its API tools - ServiceV for API service virtualization and LoadUI NG for API load testing.Updates to ServiceV enable software teams to build advanced mocks from real-time API traffic and switch between virtualized “mock” services and actual APIs during diagnostic, load or integration testing in the continuous delivery ...
New SmartBear Software Offers Open Source API Testing for IoT
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has released SoapUI 5.2 Open Source, the latest version of its API testing tool which now includes integration to AlertSite UXM and support for Internet-of-Things (IoT) messaging format MQTT. API Monitoring in AlertSite gives teams the visibility into the performance characteristics and problems in their APIs. The new AlertSite Connector fo...
Open Source WSO2 API Manager 1.9 Now Available
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
WSO2 has enhances the API management platform capabilities with the release of WSO2 API Manager 1.9, which is fully open source and runs on servers and in the cloud. With this latest version, WSO2 API Manager offers plugin support for third-party key servers, allowing companies to use their existing infrastructure to authenticate API consumers.WSO2 API Manager now suppo...
3 Steps to Successful Web App Performance Tuning
Monday, June 15, 2015 by Kaushal Amin
Far too many companies still don't test web apps for performance or so-called response time. Time and budget constraints are typically used to justify putting performance testing off. “We’ll get to it later,” is the common stance. A few months later, as the user base swells, performance issues start to pop up in some of the most business critical areas. End users b...
Key Tips for App Development in a Hybrid Cloud Environment
Thursday, May 21, 2015 by Sravish Sridhar
According to ABI Research, the evolving enterprise mobility space will see tremendous growth in new cloud-based solutions as enterprises seek to mobilize quickly and easily. It’s no secret that the cause of this drive towards mobility is the development and deployment of enterprise apps, especially as there is a growing number of devices and device platforms access...
SOA is Not a Mobile Backend
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Bill Appleton
The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...
AnyPresence Launches JustAPIs Platform to Build and Deploy RESTful APIs
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence, an enterprise backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has released a new service called JustAPIs - a solution for building and deploying modern RESTful APIs.JustAPIs is designed to solve the API building challenge from the perspective of the enterprise app developer. The platform provides a quick, easy way to define and deploy APIs with specific signatures (...
Create and Manage Your Own API With Dell's New Boomi Platform
Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Dell Software has announced that its Dell Boomi platform has released full API lifecycle management, creating a multi-purpose Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports major integration use cases, master data management (MDM) and API management. It enables companies to integrate any combination of cloud and on-premises applications without software, appliances or codin...
Why Mobile App Development Requires More than an SOA
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 by Coco Jaenicke
If you plan on building mobile apps, you probably want a pluggable framework that allows you to easily use and reuse mobile services. You can then effortlessly access back-end systems, rapidly assemble new apps, and easily update individual services.Déjà vu I hear you cry – isn’t that what my service-oriented architecture (SOA) gives me? Yes and no. A SOA gives yo...
Using Location Analytics To Help Target Mobile Ads = More Money
Thursday, August 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mobile technology has provided the opportunity to engage customers like never before. Serving the right information, at the right time, in the right place is now possible. I say possible, because having the opportunity and actually understanding how to leverage the opportunity are two separate things.If you’re dealing with one user, then sure it would be easy. But 50k, ...
New SmartBear Plug In for SoapUI Pro Provides Support for Apiary’s API Blueprint
Monday, August 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has released a new plug-in for SoapUI Pro that provides support for Apiary’s API Blueprint service descriptions within the tool.Apiary, designers of the API Blueprint and the Apiary API Design toolchain, enables parallel API development through collaboration and documentation. SmartBear, makers of SoapUI Pro, provides developers and testers common too...
MuleSoft Releases New Solutions for Bringing Microsoft Technologies to Cloud Enabled Enterprise
Monday, August 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
MuleSoft has released new solutions for connecting Microsoft technologies within the cloud-enabled enterprise. The new solutions provide out-of-the-box connectivity to a number of Microsoft products, including Microsoft SharePoint, SQL Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and more. MuleSoft solutions for Microsoft provide the ability to integrate .NET applications w...
StrongLoop Node.js API Server Released for Developing, Securing and Scaling REST APIs
Thursday, July 31, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
StrongLoop, a provider of solutions for Node.js, has released the StrongLoop API Server to facilitate the ability to develop, deploy, secure and scale REST APIs written in Node. The StrongLoop API Server is a set of components that work together to take an API project from development to production. The impact of the proliferation of mobile devices along with the r...
SOA Software Releases API Catalog for App Enterprise App Development
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 by Richard Harris
SOA Software has released its Enterprise API catalog, an enhancement to its API Management Platform to foster the creation of API communities inside the enterprise. The API catalog combines the collaborative, open practices of external API Portals with search, controlled visibility, selective provisioning, and integration with enterprise security for internal ...
Develop Apps for Any Device and Any Platform With AppMethod's New Platform
Saturday, June 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero has introduced its latest release of Appmethod which allows developers to use C++ to create apps for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac OS X. This release of Appmethod now includes a "Free Forever" subscription plan that C++ developers can use to create Android apps to be published on any public app store (e.g., Amazon App Store and Google Play). ...
The Foundry Releases MODO 801 for Game Designers
Monday, April 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Foundry has released MODO 801 providing new, innovative and significantly enhanced 3D content workflows. In MODO 801, nearly every element of the end-to-end 3D workflow has been improved upon and tweaked in response to extensive customer feedback. MODO 801 offers workflows for design ideation, game content creation, character animation, and producing ...
NT OBJECTives Offers New On Demand Mobile Security Testing
Friday, April 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
NT OBJECTives, a provider of automated web application security solutions, is now offering the NTOMobile On-Demand platform powered by NTOSpider, a new security service specifically designed for mobile application testing, including mobile client native code and back-end web services. The platform delivers a way for security teams to complete comprehensive mobile a...
Parasoft API Testing Enhances Automation for Mobile API Testing
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Parasoft has released the latest edition of its API testing solution which introduces enhanced support for testing RESTful APIs for mobile transactions.The latest release of Parasoft's enterprise-grade API Testing solution addresses the ongoing shift from XML/SOAP to JSON/REST focusing on ensuring that rich regression suites for JSON can be more rapidly constr...
Do Advertisers Hold the App Monetization Keys and Could the Spigot Dry Up Due to False Positive Ads
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Ok, I made up the term “false positive ads” that appears in the title of this article, you’ll understand what I mean in a moment.
While the big ad money in mobile might be a recent smart device phenomenon, the source of much of that money is coming from long standing, traditional sources: large advertisers selling cars, razor blades, and dish soap, staples of our li...
SOA Software Announces Industry's First Integrated API Gateway Solution
Monday, May 6, 2013 by Richard Harris
The Flexible Virtual and Cloud Appliance Combines Security, Integration, Developer Community and Mediation Capabilities to Minimize Risk and CostLos Angeles, CA. - May 6, 2013 - SOA Software - a leading provider of Enterprise API Management and SOA Governance solutions - announced today the industry's first unified API Gateway establishing a new standard for an integrat...
Trillion Dollar Market wants Developers What you need to know to get into building for Health Care
Thursday, April 18, 2013 by Richard Harris
The inaugural Health:Refactored conference, a code and design focused event, is taking place May 13-14 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Health:Refactored is bringing together an impressive (and fun) list of technologists, design experts, hacktivists, coders, and health industry luminaries. Health:Refactored will provide core tools, information a...
