SmartBear Expands API Hub with Automated Testing to Accelerate API Quality and Delivery

SmartBear API Hub for Test automates testing experience by streamlining API validation across the lifecycle, integrating into CI/CD, and reducing maintenance burdens

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartBear, a leading provider of software quality and visibility solutions, launched API Hub for Test, a new capability within the company’s award-winning API Hub, powered by Swagger. SmartBear API Hub is a modular, SaaS-based solution that brings together essential API lifecycle features—including Design, Explore, Test, and Portal—in one unified interface. With API Hub for Test, the latest addition, teams can seamlessly generate and automate tests aligned to API specifications, all within the same collaborative hub.

“With API Hub for Test, we are deeply embedding test creation into the API lifecycle workflow," said Vineeta Puranik, Chief Technology Officer at SmartBear. “Purpose-built for testers, it supports advanced functionality such as scripting, chaining, and assertions. It enables instant test generation from design specs, eliminates manual updates and context switching, and streamlines collaboration across team members. API Hub for Test is a major step forward in our mission to deliver an integrated, end-to-end quality experience for modern API development.”

API Hub for Test enables functional, regression, and integration testing as part of end-to-end API lifecycle management. Teams can now generate tests directly from API specifications defined in API Hub for Design or explored via API Hub for Explore, ensuring API alignment and accelerating test setup.

Key benefits include:

• Scalability without complexity – Test APIs across teams without increasing manual maintenance or configuration overhead.
• Faster test creation and execution – Auto-generate tests aligned to API specifications, enabling continuous testing and rapid iteration.
• Built-in CI/CD automation – Seamlessly run tests in CI/CD pipelines for fast feedback and issue prevention.
• Improved collaboration – Real-time test results keep QA, Development, and Product teams aligned and informed.
• End-to-end API quality – Unified experience across design, testing, and deployment within the API Hub ecosystem.

According to The Forrester Tech Tide™: Software Development, Q4 2024 report, API testing has become mainstream and a key part of test automation platforms, helping orchestrate end-to-end business processes across distributed application architectures.

During a two-month beta phase, API Hub for Test attracted more than 5,600 users, generating nearly 3,000 API tests and over 500 automated test runs, demonstrating strong market demand for a more unified, automation-first testing approach.

Pricing and Availability
API Hub for Test is available today in all base API Hub plans (Individual, Team, and Enterprise) with enhanced capabilities available through the optional Test Pro Add-On ($25/user/month) or included in the Enterprise Plus plan. Test Pro Add-On includes unlimited and parallel test execution, ideal for teams operating at scale.

SmartBear will host the webinar, “Meet API Hub for Test,” on April 23. To learn more and register, visit: https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/meet-api-hub-for-test/

For additional information about API Hub for Test, go to:
https://smartbear.com/blog/from-design-to-delivery-how-smartbear-api-hub-powers-quality-first-apis/

About SmartBear
SmartBear is pioneering innovation in software quality, embracing AI’s transformative potential. The company’s powerful solution hubs, including SmartBear API Hub, SmartBear Insight Hub, and SmartBear Test Hub, featuring HaloAI, give software development teams around the world visibility and automation that provide end-to-end quality. 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, SmartBear meets customers where they are to help make our technology-driven world a better place. The company is committed to ethical corporate practices, including responsible AI that integrates accountability and transparency across its technology stack, and to social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities it serves. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow on LinkedIn, X, or Facebook.

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