SmartBear Releases Results of 2021 State of Software Quality | API Survey
Findings show that developers continue to take on more responsibility around API testing and face increasing challenges around accelerated release cadence expectations
Somerville - October 5, 2021 - SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and quality tools, has released the results of its annual State of Software Quality | API survey. First published in 2016, SmartBear has continuously surveyed the API community to identify industry benchmarks regarding the trends, best practices, methodologies, and tools used by software teams to manage the API lifecycle.
With responses from over 1,600 API professionals from more than 17 different industries globally, this year’s findings show that new API standards continue to emerge to meet new challenges. The majority of API practitioners operate in this new multi-protocol landscape contributing to more complex architectures, increasing the need for tooling that drives standardization and ease of use.
“As organizations adopt new API technology, having a view into what others are doing helps our customers understand the market and adoption trends,” said Joanna Schloss, Senior Vice President of Product Marketing at SmartBear. “Overall, we see new specifications coming to the market faster than existing ones will disappear, adding more complexity into the API environment. The need for tooling to meet teams where they are, agnostic of protocols and specifications, is becoming imperative in today’s market.”
Key insights of the State of Software Quality | API survey include:
- – A majority of API practitioners operate in a multi-protocol landscape. Of those surveyed, 57% state they use three or more protocols within their organizations
- – Developers are increasingly involved in testing and are taking on more testing responsibilities with close to 60% reporting they are directly involved in API testing
- – “Ease of use” was reported as being the top factor driving API tool choice along with the most important characteristic consumers need in an API
- – The biggest obstacles to ensuring consistent quality of APIs as well as API documentation are “increasing demands for speed of delivery” and “limited time due to workload”
SmartBear API experts will discuss key findings and more from the survey in a live webinar on Tuesday, October 5, 2021. Register here:
https://smartbear.com/resources/webinars/state-of-software-quality-api-2021/.
The 2021 State of Software Quality | API survey is available at:
https://smartbear.com/state-of-software-quality/api/.
About SmartBear
SmartBear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended – with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. SmartBear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.
SmartBear is trusted by more than 16 million developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, JetBlue, and Microsoft. SmartBear's best-loved brands include Swagger, TestComplete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more. As stewards of a collaborative open source community, SmartBear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit.
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