SmartBear Integrates API Tools to Enhance Design Experience for Teams
April 18 2024 - 8:02AM
Business Wire
Integration of Stoplight’s Spectral, Elements,
and Prism into SwaggerHub drives enhanced developer experience with
ability to create higher quality, more reliable, easily adoptable
APIs
SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and
visibility solutions, announced a new version of its award-winning
API design and documentation tool, SwaggerHub, integrating
Stoplight’s API open source tools. The integration enriches the
customer experience by giving development teams and others the
ability to create higher quality, more reliable, and easily
adoptable APIs. Last August, SmartBear acquired Stoplight, a global
API design-first company popular with developers. The new
integration, along with SwaggerHub’s recently launched API portal
and contract testing from its PactFlow acquisition in 2022, is
creating a comprehensive and composable API development hub,
providing complete visibility, automation, and productivity for
teams looking to modernize API practices.
“SmartBear’s mission is to empower customers with the solutions
and capabilities they need to drive quality and efficiency across
development teams,” said Sean Butler, Vice President of Product
Management at SmartBear. “Integrating Stoplight's advanced API
design features into SwaggerHub highlights this commitment to
enhance the API development lifecycle, particularly critical now
with the onslaught of AI-related APIs. Customers can expect
multiple benefits, including a seamless developer experience from
API design to deployment.”
The integration of Spectral into SwaggerHub now, combined with
the upcoming integration of Stoplight's visual editor, enhances API
design and governance by offering advanced linting, style guide
enforcement, and a user-friendly design interface. This combination
ensures that API designs not only adhere to best practices and
organizational standards from the outset but also benefit from an
easy-to-use visual editing tool. By facilitating the maintenance of
high-quality APIs that are simpler to manage and evolve, this
integration optimizes the API design process, ensures consistency
across the API portfolio, and significantly reduces errors.
“Spectral has fast become a core tool supporting API design and
API governance best practices,” said Mark Boyd, Director of
Platformable. “Having the means to keep teams aligned with your
internal style guides and industry standards reduces security risks
and helps speed up development through automation, pushing APIs to
generate value for a business faster, thus addressing a key aspect
of API governance. Further, it’s commendable of SmartBear to
integrate this open source tooling into their API Hub. Providing
this support for interoperability allows users to maintain their
toolchain without feeling locked into proprietary approaches to API
governance. Teams can continue to use the broad range of tooling
that best suits their needs from within a central platform.”
For enhancing the flexibility and user experience of API
documentation, SwaggerHub Portal incorporates Elements. Users can
now choose to render their OpenAPI definitions using either open
source option, Elements or SwaggerUI. This upgrade transforms
static API documentation into an engaging, easy-to-navigate
experience, making it simpler for developers to understand and work
with others’ APIs. Enhanced documentation leads to increased
adoption rates, fostering a more vibrant ecosystem around API
offerings.
Prism, available later this year in SwaggerHub Explore, will
support API reliability and consistency through its advanced
mocking capabilities. This will allow developers to instantly
create mock servers based on their API definitions, enabling
parallel development workflows that dramatically shorten
time-to-market for new features. It also enhances API quality
through rigorous validation against OpenAPI specifications.
This year, SmartBear is realigning 20+ products into three
intuitive solution hubs – API Hub, Test Hub, and Insight Hub – to
simplify the customer experience. Through a seamless integration of
robust API tools, including SwaggerHub, API Hub will equip
development teams to pragmatically deliver quality APIs at scale.
For more information, go to: https://smartbear.com/hubs/
For more information on the integration of Stoplight into
SwaggerHub, go to:
https://smartbear.com/blog/elevating-api-development-with-stoplight/
About SmartBear
SmartBear provides a portfolio of trusted capabilities that give
software development teams around the world visibility into
end-to-end quality through test management and automation, API
development lifecycle, and application stability, ensuring each
software release is better than the last. Our award-winning
products include SwaggerHub, TestComplete, BugSnag, ReadyAPI,
Zephyr, PactFlow, and Stoplight, among others. SmartBear is trusted
by over 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers at
32,000+ organizations – including innovators like Adobe, JetBlue,
FedEx, and Microsoft. With an active peer-to-peer community, we
meet customers where they are to help make our technology-driven
world a better place. SmartBear is committed to ethical corporate
practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the
communities we serve. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow on
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