SmartBear provides distributed tracing, developer API portal, and extra in newest replace


The testing firm SmartBear has introduced updates to 3 of its merchandise, with the purpose of enhancing visibility into the software program improvement life cycle.

“We proceed to place our clients on the heart of our methods and ship on their wants by increasing our product portfolio by way of progressive enhancements to our common options utilized by hundreds of thousands of builders, testers, and software program engineers worldwide,” stated Dan Faulkner, chief product officer at SmartBear.

The primary replace is in BugSnag, a developer-focused monitoring platform. Earlier this 12 months the corporate had acquired Aspecto, which is an OpenTelemetry-based firm, and now SmartBear has built-in its distributed tracing capabilities into the BugSnag platform.

By including distributed tracing to its platform, SmartBear is offering its clients with the power to watch errors and correlate them throughout traces, logs, and metrics to find out the foundation trigger.  

Subsequent up, it launched a developer portal for locating SmartBear APIs inside the SwaggerHub Portal, which is a market for locating APIs that the corporate launched in August. In response to the corporate, this new portal will assist corporations extra rapidly get began with SmartBear merchandise.

SmartBear additionally launched updates to the check administration resolution Zephyr Squad Cloud. New options embrace a check case library, n-level folder construction for check cycles, reordering of check executions, enhanced check cycle particulars, and superior reporting of check execution outcomes. 

“Whether or not you’re a seasoned QA skilled, a developer, or a challenge supervisor, this replace will make your testing course of sooner, extra environment friendly, and extra user-friendly than ever earlier than,” SmartBear wrote in a weblog publish.