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How to design & test APIs with OpenAPI & Swagger | What's changed in 3.1 & 3.2

Jul 15, 2026 By SmartBear In SmartBear
Outdated API docs and last-minute bugs cost teams time and trust. Learn how the OpenAPI Specification help you document, govern, and test your APIs from design to deployment – all inside SmartBear Swagger. SmartBear's Yousaf Nabi, Developer Advocate, and Chris Armstrong, Manager of Developer Relations, explain why API documentation drifts out of sync and walk through what's changed between OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2. After covering a brief history of Swagger and the OpenAPI specification, they demo the full API workflow across Swagger.
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Agentic AI Test Execution Inside Jira with Xray and Lynqa

Jul 14, 2026 By Mariana Santos In Xray
AI is becoming part of every stage of the testing lifecycle. Teams are using it to analyze requirements, design test cases, generate automation scripts, and accelerate execution activities that previously required significant manual effort. Within Xray, AI already helps transform Jira requirements into actionable test cases with AI Test Case Generation.
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AI is Exposing Observability's Dirty Secret

Jul 14, 2026 By Speedscale In Speedscale
The 3 pillars of observability are breaking. For years, dev teams relied on Logs, Metrics, and Traces to know when something went wrong. But now? AI agents are writing, deploying, and changing code in real-time. When an AI hallucination pushes a bug to production, standard monitoring sees nothing wrong.To survive the AI era, we need a 4th Pillar of Observability. Watch to find out what it is and why the old way of monitoring just became obsolete.
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Disaster Recovery for Retail: Are You Protecting Systems or Protecting Revenue?

Jul 14, 2026 By Testhouse In Testhouse
Every year, retailers invest millions in uptime. Yet when disaster strikes, most discover their DR plan protects infrastructure, not the business that runs on it. “It wasn’t the outage that hurt us most. It was the 45 minutes we had no idea it was happening.” – CTO, UK fashion retailer, post-incident review You have a DR plan. Your infrastructure team tested it six months ago. Your board presentation has a green tick next to Business Continuity.
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How to Create Data-Driven Load Testing Scripts for Complex User Journeys (2026 Guide)

Jul 14, 2026 By LoadFocus In LoadFocus
Picture this: you’ve completed a round of performance testing, and your load testing scripts all pass with flying colors. The release goes live, but within hours, users report sluggish performance and intermittent failures. What happened? In most cases, traditional scripts relied on static payloads and linear request patterns, failing to reflect the unpredictable, multi-step journeys of actual users.
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Pre-built Oracle test cases can't replace a test automation strategy

Jul 14, 2026 By John Lange In Tricentis
Pre-built Oracle test cases have become an increasingly popular resource as organizations look for faster ways to scale test automation. The appeal is understandable: reusable assets and templates can help teams accelerate onboarding and reduce the effort required to begin automation initiatives. Tricentis offers an Oracle test case library as a reference framework rather than an instant, maintenance-free automation solution.
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Xray and Lynqa: Agentic AI Test Execution in Jira

Jul 14, 2026 By Mariana Santos In Xray
AI is becoming part of every stage of the testing lifecycle. Teams are using it to analyze requirements, design test cases, generate automation scripts, and accelerate execution activities that previously required significant manual effort. Within Xray, AI already helps transform Jira requirements into actionable test cases with AI Test Case Generation.
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Dynamic SSO Configuration: No More Restarts to Update Your Identity Provider

Jul 14, 2026 By Quentin Hamard In OctoPerf
This is the fifth post in our "Features Sitting Idle" series, where we look at OctoPerf features that are already in your platform but often missed by the teams that would benefit the most. This one is for IT teams running OctoPerf on-premise. IT teams managing an on-premise OctoPerf instance regularly run into the same friction around SSO.
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Build WireMock mappings fast from real traffic

Jul 13, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
I'm a big fan of service mocking. I've been working in and around software for about 25 years, and one thing never changes: when you sit down to work on your code, you almost never have everything available. The database, the third-party API, the message queue, the service two teams over. Something's missing. So you've got to stub it out or mock it out and keep moving.
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Your Guide to Perforce Autonomous Testing

Jul 13, 2026 By Perforce In Perforce
Software testing is struggling to keep pace with modern release cycles. More code, faster deployments, fragmented tools, and increasing quality demands are creating bottlenecks for QA, engineering, and DevOps teams. Discover how Perforce Autonomous Testing transforms the way teams validate software by bringing functional, performance, web, mobile, and desktop testing together through a unified AI-driven experience. Using natural language, teams can define testing intent, automate execution, orchestrate complex workflows, and gain actionable insights faster than ever before.
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