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The API testing gap: How AI-accelerated development challenges software quality

While AI accelerates development velocity by a factor of ten, a critical consequence remains: testing hasn’t kept pace. According to SmartBear research, 70% of software professionals report that their application quality has already degraded due to AI-accelerated development. Even more concerning, 60% have experienced quality issues in the past year as development velocity outstrips testing capacity.

Why Performance Testing Should Be a Priority for Mobile-First Businesses in 2026

Mobile-first businesses often enter the market confident in their app’s speed, but the reality is that many overestimate their performance – and pay for it through user churn and lost revenue. With 5.78 billion unique mobile users worldwide as of October 2025, representing 70.1% of the global population, the pressure to deliver a fast, reliable experience is immense.

Embedded Lending: The Rise of API-Driven Credit Platforms

Credit used to be a destination. You went to a bank, filled out forms, waited days, sometimes weeks, and hoped for approval. That model is quietly disappearing. Today, credit shows up exactly where you need it. While shopping online. While booking logistics. Even while managing business cash flow inside a SaaS dashboard. No redirects. No friction. No traditional loan journey. This shift is what we call Embedded Lending. It is not just a feature.

Proven QA Practices for Healthcare Platforms: Built for Real-World Complexity and Scale

Healthcare IT systems operate in environments where even a minor failure can create clinical risks and regulatory consequences. Modern healthcare ecosystems depend on microservices, legacy databases, and multiple third-party integrations, creating vulnerabilities that traditional testing approaches often fail to detect. Engineering teams are managing sensitive information at high-velocity, ensuring that a failed connection or a missed rule never gets in the way of patient treatment.

Transforming Regulatory Reporting with Data Lakes: Architecture, Benefits & Best Practices

Regulatory reporting has quietly become one of the most data-intensive functions in financial services. What used to be periodic, form-based submissions has now evolved into continuous, high volume, multi jurisdiction reporting. And honestly, most legacy systems were never built for this kind of pressure. Banks and fintech firms today are dealing with fragmented data, rising compliance expectations, and shrinking timelines. Resultant - Reporting cycles that are slow, error-prone, and painfully expensive.

What's new in SmartBear ReadyAPI: AI-powered test generation | ReadyAPI

SmartBear ReadyAPI's AI-powered test generation instantly builds functional test cases from a simple natural language prompt. Stop writing API tests manually and let AI do the heavy lifting. In this demo, we show how you can take an OpenAPI spec and generate tests complete with assertions, authentication headers, test data, and request chaining. Whether you test complex microservices or APIs with hundreds of endpoints, ReadyAPI helps QA teams move faster without sacrificing quality or control.

What Is Automation Testing, and How Does It Fit into a QA Workflow?

Manual testing is essential to quality assurance, but it doesn’t always scale with fast release cycles. Clicking through forms, checking user flows, and repeating the same regression tests before every release can quickly become a bottleneck. Automation testing takes repetitive checks off your QA team’s plate. Instead of manually checking the same flows again and again, teams use testing tools to run predefined tests automatically.