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

“We proceed to place our clients on the middle of our methods and ship on their wants by increasing our product portfolio via modern enhancements to our widespread options utilized by thousands and thousands of builders, testers, and software program engineers worldwide,” mentioned 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 observe 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 throughout 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 shortly 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 venture supervisor, this replace will make your testing course of quicker, extra environment friendly, and extra user-friendly than ever earlier than,” SmartBear wrote in a weblog publish.