March 2022 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hi ReadyAPI Community, welcome to our monthly news digest. Keep reading to learn about the top contributors, biggest discussions, product updates and more! Let's start. TOP CONTRIBUTORS Next month we will be announcing our Community Leaders for Q1 2022! Community Leaders are the most active contributors who get awesome benefits from SmartBear for helping others.Learn about why being a Community Leader is great and how you can become one here: 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leader. In the meantime, here are the most active community contributors for February: richie, ChrisAdams,TNeuschwanger, JoostDG,New2API,jly Thank you for your active participation! Readyapi technical articles Many of you are subscribed to theReadyAPI Technical articlescommunity resource - there's so much high-quality technical content prepared and posted by community members. In February, we added one more article you wrote - check it out: - A script to batch edit 'Locally Stored Value' boolean true/false created byDLeidelmeijer Thanks for your contribution! If you have any great ideas for a tech article - just submit it to us. A knowledge base like this is extremely helpful for other community members, will earn you their respect for sure and you will also get a unique community badge.Learn more here -How to Create a Technical Article. MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS So many good discussions in the ReadyAPI Community happened last month! Here are just some of them, feel free to chime in: -Auth Token is not getting refreshed due to which API is getting failed with error 401 -Return DOB for specified customer from Excel workbook (similar to Excel VLOOKUP) -Azure Devops result is different from ReadyAPI test result -Random String Generator for REST Request -How to configure Pipeline in Azure devops for ReadyAPI project smartbear academy Attend our free live classes for beginners to get a glimpse of major ReadyAPI features. The next class starts at 11am ET on March 8. REGISTER FOR FREE>> PRODUCT UPDATES ReadyAPI 3.20.2 was released in February! Here are only some of the improvements we added: -ReadyAPI now uses a newer version of the Protection! License Server – version 5.5.3. - We’ve improved the API Connection test step editor -Now, when you use the dark theme on Windows computers, ReadyAPI uses the system color for the title bar. Read theWhat's New In ReadyAPIarticle to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user,get the latest versionat the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot,request a free 14-day trial). Thank you for reading, another great month awaits!February 2022 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello, ReadyAPI Community! Welcome to the February Community news digest! In this news article, you will learn about the most active participants, biggest community discussions, freshest product updates and more! Let's jump right in. TOP CONTRIBUTORS Last month we announced our Community Leaders and the race to get this elite community status for Q1 2022 began! Learn about why being a Community Leader is so awesome and how you can become one here: 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leader. In the meantime, here are the most active community contributors for January: richie, ChrisAdams, mattb, TNeuschwanger, JoostDG. Great job, everyone! MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS We had many great discussions in the ReadyAPI Community in January. Here are just some of them, if you have something to add to the conversations, please do: -How to delete multiple generated ids one by one using delete endpoint - How to use groovy script to dynamically store data in data source grid? -attach multiple file into one property -One Excel Datasource and Multiple Test cases using Specific Test Case ID within source -Using .dll files in Readyapi smartbear academy Did you know that we do bi-weekly ReadyAPI live classes for beginners? This is a great opportunity to get an overview of the tool. The next class starts at 11am ET on Feburary 8. REGISTER FOR FREE>> PRODUCT UPDATES ReadyAPI had a couple of great releases recently - 3.20 and 3.20.1! Here's what improved: - ReadyAPI now supports testing gRPC services - Dark theme - Masking encrypted properties Read theWhat's New In ReadyAPIarticle to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user,get the latest versionat the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot,request a free 14-day trial). Thank you for reading, another great month awaits!ReadyAPI Community Leaders Q4 2021 Announcement
The new year has just begun, and it's high time we announced the ReadyAPI Community Leaders for Q4 2021! Community Leaders are the people who basically run the Community. Their contribution is always helpful and valuable. Q4 was very active, so we got 10 Community Leaders total this time around. Last quarter, Community Leaders created 🗯534 replies, received 👍403 Kudos, and created✔️136 solutions. Great numbers! Readyapi Community Leaders Q4 2021 Four of the Community Leaders came from the ReadyAPI Community. Here they are, let's congratulate them: richieChrisAdamsnmraoTNeuschwanger Thank you for all your efforts, folks! Without you, the ReadyAPI Community wouldn't be the same, for sure! Each of you will get: - a $50 gift card from SmartBear, we will contact you shortly to deliver the gift cards - a unique Community badge - a mention on the Hall of Fame SmartBear Community Heroes Awards 2021 Another big announcement that we have is the SmartBear Community Heroes Awards 2021 ceremony! This is the most elite status one can get in the SmartBear Community only once a year. Next week, we are setting up an online awards ceremony that all of you can attend to congratulate the winners and get an insight into what's been happening in the Community last year. We will also be doing a raffle - five $50 gift cards will be given away to ceremony attendees. >>Register for SmartBear Community Heroes Awards 2021 Location: Zoom Date: 10AM EST January 19, 2022 Let's get together and celebrate!December 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Greetings Community, We are welcoming you in the last ReadyAPI Community News for this year. It’s time to finish the tasks as well as to think about achievements of the past year, make some decision and, of course, have fun! Keeping all of these in mind, we are setting up our annual community event – Wintertainment 2021. Find more details below and join the event on Dec 6-12. Also, we prepared the latest community news where you can find the most active participants and re-read the most exciting topics. Top Community Contributors Already next month, we will announce the SmartBear Community Leaders for Q4 and Heroes for 2021. Any active contributor can earn this elite community statuses. Just post questions/answers to the community and earn kudos. Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leader to learn more. And now, our November Top Contributors. Please join me to congratulate these members: ChrisAdams,richie,TNeuschwanger,nmrao, Folks, great activity! Keep it up! Join Wintertainment 2021 Join the exciting annual community event – Wintertainment 2021. Each December, we are preparing many interesting online activities where you can participate. This year, expect to get even more new activities, more kudos, more badges… Join the event on December 6-12! Learn more about Wintertainment 2021 Most Discussed Topics We’ve collected a list of the most active and exciting topics of the past month. Just click the link(s), if you want to dive into the topic you like one more time or find a new interesting conversation: Issues and Feedback about Smart Assertions How to store multiple value retrieve in property as object How to collect assertion message from Assertion Teststep Parsing large JSON responses Conditional GoTo Test Step Trim the node value That’s all for a month! Got a question? Have a comment? Please feel free to let us know! /SmartBear Community TeamNovember 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Greetings Community, Welcome to the November issue of ReadyAPI Community News. Last month, there were many great conversations on the Questions board and several new technical articles. We like seeing you post content to this new resource! Top Community Contributors Thanks to everybody who contributed to the ReadyAPI Community last month. Please join me in congratulating the most active community members who earned the biggest number of kudos: richie,AAB,ChrisAdams,TNeuschwanger,nmrao I encourage all of you to post questions, replies, and technical articles in the Community. All of this activity is valuable! Also, I'd like to remind you that you can become a Q4 Community leader – you just need to post and earn Kudos. Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leaderarticle to learn more. Inside ReadyAPI - Solutions Team Meet a hero of the ReadyAPI Team – Oleg Kodysh, Customer Adoption Engineer. Oleg helps new users get started with the product and makes sure they're happy when they use ReadyAPI. In the interview, you'll learn more about Oleg, his life, and his most interesting work duties. Plus, you can grab a list of great education resources he recommends for all new users. >> Watch the interview with the ReadyAPISolutionsteam Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews. Look under the ReadyAPITeam label. Product Updates Meet Ready 3.10.1! This is a minor release with some bug fixes and several improvements: New Java virtual machine option Dark UI theme updates and more Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). Community Industry Awards We were nominated to Community Industry Awards 2022 in the User Group Program category! This is a huge honor for us. Thanks for all your nice words about the SmartBear Community - they were heard! Now, we need your support - vote for the SmartBear Community to help us win in this category. If you want to vote, open the page below, expand the User Group Program item, select SmartBear, type your name and click Submit. Thanks a lot for your help! >> VOTE FOR THE SMARTBEAR COMMUNITY New Technical Articles Last month, you added several great technical articles thatwillhelp many community members. Here are the most popular: How to capture teststep status as pass/fail using groovy to write it in txt file Parse a JSON Response Using Groovy Simple script to batch edit multiple groovy scripts Use of tags in command line via bamboo build - Run all tests while sending -T tags parameters Most Discussed Topics Worried you missed something? We’ve got you covered with the most popular topics of October. If you have anything to add, just jump into the conversation: Change the default request name Set custom names in Data Generator ReadyAPI - add webbased actions for token retrieval Continue Assertions in Groovy Step when one assertion fails Email Generator using REAL emails Script Library Cannot Import Project That’s all for a month! Got a question? Have a comment? Please feel free to let us know! /SmartBear Community TeamOctober 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello Community! Welcome to the October ReadyAPI Community Newsletter. It’s the beginning of the quarter, which means it’s time to announce our new community leaders. You can also watch a new video interview with a ReadyAPI Team member, participate in a new Community resource, and try the new version of ReadyAPI with a long-awaited feature – dark theme! Let’s start. Q3 Community Leaders Join us in congratulating the community members who posted many replies and received many Kudos in the past three months. Their willingness to help the entire community is indefatigable. They always seem to be here, and they always give valuable advice. Please meet our ReadyAPI Community Leaders: nmrao,richie In addition to respect from the entire ReadyAPI Community, they'll each receive a $50 gift card from SmartBear. You can see all Community Leaders in the Hall of Fame. Inside ReadyAPI - Solutions Engineering team We're happy to introduce Joe Joyce from the Solutions Engineering team. As part of the Inside ReadyAPI program, Joe works as an API lifecycle manager and helps you, our dear customers, set up all of our API SmartBear products. Watch the interview to learn more about Joe, his work, what motivates him, and how ReadyAPI can be connected with billboards and their tests! >> Watch the interview with the ReadyAPI Solutions Engineering team Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews, look under the ReadyAPITeam label. Community Technical Articles Please meet a new great community resource where you can participate and contribute – Community Technical Articles. Here you can find ready-to-usesamples and use cases created by other community members. We encourage each of you to contribute by creating articles and sharing your scripts or testing approaches. You will be able to earn unique community badges like this as well as the respect of the entire community. Find the Technical Articles links in the ReadyAPI Community structure, or click here: >> ReadyAPI Community Technical Articles Please read theHow to Create a TechnicalArticleguide,whichwill help you create your first article easily! SmartBear Connect In September, many of you attended our annual conference, SmartBear Connect. We hope you enjoyed the event and got lots of insights. If you want to re-watch any sessions, you can access the recordings at this page. SmartBear Connect 2021 - Shift Up Thanks for being with SmartBear, and see you next year! Product Updates We know how long you've been waiting for dark mode in ReadyAPI. We're happy to introduce Ready 3.10 with dark theme! Isn’t it great? Just download the latest ReadyAPI version and switch to dark mode in the project settings! Please note this feature is in beta. If you have any issues with it, please post them to the Customer Care team. Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). UX Research Survey Do you want to help co-create SmartBear’s products? Sign up to participate in UX research to share your valuable feedback. You’ll get the chance to win a $50 virtual gift card! Please sign up HERE -- it only takes 2 minutes. We’ll reach out once we match you to a research study. Thanks for your time! Most Discussed Topics Worried you missed anything? We’ve got you covered, with the most popular topics of July. If you have anything to add, just jump into the conversation: Getting Blank allure reports with ReadyAPI allure results json files MissingMethodException: No signature of method Extracting response from Kafka Connection step Design For Automated testing of a Grid template UI usnig ReadyAPI Sorting data in JSON response for comparison Reporting That’s all for now. Have a question or comment? Please feel free to let us know. /SmartBear Community TeamSeptember 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello Community! Welcome to the September Community news. We have many updates for you this month, including community site changes, community contributions, and product improvements. Top Community Contributors Next month, we will announce the quarterly leaders. If you want to become a leader, be an active participant in the community and earn Kudos. Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leaderarticle to learn more. Join me to thank the most active contributors of August: nmrao, richie,aaronpliu, AAB,Cata, eissaeva Inside ReadyAPI - Documentation Team We continue to introduce our amazing ReadyAPI team to all of you. This month, please meet Alexander Linkov and Dmitry Terentiev from the Documentation team. I'm sure many of you read the documentation articles or followed the tutorials to set up your tests with ReadyAPI. Learn more about the steps to create the documentation: >> Watch the interview with the ReadyAPI Documentation team Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews, look under the ReadyAPITeam label. Community Talks - New community board We continue to improve the community site to make sure you can easily communicate with each other, navigate around different questions, and raise general topics. We are happy to introduce two new community boards: ReadyAPI Questions Community Talks Please use the ReadyAPI Questions board if you have a technical question or issue about the tool. To categorize your question, please use Labels when creating a topic so that experts are able to help you faster.Read more aboutthis change. In the Community Talks board, feel free to post any non-technical and even non-product related topics. This can be a question or general discussion of the news from the API world, fun or interesting moments from your work, questions about the interview, etc. We don't want to dictate the topics, so feel free to post whatever you want to Community Talks (we will only block spam). We want to learn more about each community member! We will also post community news and news from the SmartBear Academy and other learning resources to this board. Subscribe to Community Talks to be notified. Have a question? Let us know! New SmartBear Connect is Back We are happy to announce the return of SmartBear Connect. This virtual conference will take place September 21 - 23, 2021. Join us and your industry peers for 1, 2, or 3 days of real conversation and learning on how to best integrate continuous quality at all stages of your SDLC. Get Your Free Ticket Now>> Product Update Meet Ready 3.9.2! Download the latest version to get access to new improvements in: using Protobuf schemas to serialize and deserialize Kafka messages the JSON Schema Compliance and Swagger Compliance assertions and others Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). SmartBear Academy We recently made some major upgrades to the SmartBear Academy – this is a great, free learning resource where you can learn the products and improve your knowledge. Enroll in any courses you like, learn something new, and return to the SmartBear Community to share your new knowledge! You can not only earn more Kudos, but an exclusive Academy Certified community badge! Please join me in congratulating the following community members who successfully finished the ReadyAPI courses: Enroll in the ReadyAPI courses in the SmartBear Academy Most Discussed Topics Worried you missed anything? We’ve got you covered, with the most popular topics of July. If you have anything to add, just jump into the conversation: What is the meaning of '${Request 1#Response}'? ReadyAPI- append date in a filename ReadyAPI feature - automatic passing cookies to following request with “Maintain HTTP Session” Handling Request Values (not parameters) in Ready API Integrating pipeline with argoCD How to extract .svg and .cob files, read the data from these files and compare with JSON response? Adding groovy function to script file Connect to Azure Cosmos DB from ReadyApi That’s all for a month! Got a question? Have a comment? Please feel free to let us know! /SmartBear Community TeamAugust 2021| ReadyAPI Community News
Greetings! Hard to believe, but it's already August! In the hope that you enjoy hot summer days, let me add some more hot news from the ReadyAPI Community. Get the latest community news, give kudos, and post your comments. Top Community Contributors We recently announced the Q2 Community Leaders, but it doesn't mean you can’t be nominated as a Q3 Community Leader. Just keep contributing to the community by answering questions or creating new topics. Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leader to learn how to earn this community status. As for now, please join me in congratulating the following community members who showed the biggest activity last month: nmrao,richie,steve_rivers,JoostDG,aaronpliu,HimanshuTayal, LeMi,madhu_112,bastien Thanks for your active contribution to the ReadyAPI Community! Keep it up. Inside ReadyAPI - QA Team You already know a lot about the ReadyAPI developers, marketing, and product management. This time, we’re talking with Nikolay Mirontsev, QA Lead for ReadyAPI. You’ll get a lot out of this interview, as we cover a lot of QA-specifics topics, how the team is using ReadyAPI for testing APIs, and much more. >> Watch the interview with Nikolay Mirontsev Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews, look under the ReadyAPITeam tag. COMMUNITY SITE UPDATE Take a look around at the new community page updates. We’ve implemented some changes that we hope will enhance your overall SmartBear Community experience! When you read conversations, askquestions, give Kudos, share your knowledge – we know it matters. Each activity is extremely important for the SmartBear Community, so we’ve done our best to make it better. Here are some improvements: A new light main menu with quick navigation across product communities and quick access to the “Ask a Question” button A new design of topic pages to help you concentrate on creating your topic A decreased number of options in the topic and post menus, with only the most important ones left Labels to replace the tag functionality. Please make sure you select the needed label when submitting a question – this is how we categorize topics Have a question? Let us know! Product Updates Meet Ready 3.9.1! Download the latest version to get access to new improvements in: Smart Assertion AppDynamics monitor Hex viewer and others Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). SmartBear Academy We recently made some major upgrades to the SmartBear Academy – this is a great, free learning resource where you can learn the products and improve your knowledge. Enroll in any courses you like, learn something new, and return to the SmartBear Community to share your new knowledge! You can not only earn more Kudos, but an exclusive Academy Certified community badge! Please join me in congratulating the following community members who successfully finished the ReadyAPI courses:ndondapati,Shelley,Loki,Cata Enroll in the ReadyAPI courses in the SmartBear Academy Most Discussed Topics Worried you missed anything? We’ve got you covered, with the most popular topics of July. If you have anything to add, just jump into the conversation: Compare 2 JSON responses for duplicate property value New version 3.9.0 of ReadyApi introduced smart assertion and deprecated Valid HTTP Status Codes ReadyAPI Test for Azure DevOps manual test association How to get project password for an encrypted project when we run project from Commandline Kafka Subscriber launch in Test Case Can I put multiple project in one Git repository? That’s all for a month! Got a question? Have a comment? Please feel free to let us know! /SmartBear Community TeamJuly 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello Community! Welcome to the July TestComplete News. July is a great month – it’s time to sum up the quarter results and think about great stuff to do in the second part of the year! In this monthly digest, we’re happy to announce new quarterly community leaders, introduce the ReadyAPI Marketing team, share new product features, and much more. Let’s start. Q2 2021COMMUNITYLEADERS As usual, each quarter begins with choosing new community leaders – members who contributed the most to the community within the quarter by giving replies and getting kudos. Please meet the new Q2 2021 Community Leaders: Leaders in the ReadyAPI and SoapUI OS communities: nmrao,richie,HimanshuTayal Leaders in the TestComplete community:@Marsha_R,@AlexKaras First-time leader in the Zephyr Scale community:@MisterB Congratulations, gang! You ROCK! In addition to respect of the entire SmartBear Community, we’re happy to reward you with a $50 gift card. Want to be a leader next quarter? Read the 3 Simple Steps to Become a ReadyAPI Community Leader to learn how to earn this community status. INSIDEREADYAPI- Marketing Team Each month, we introduce ReadyAPI team members to our lovely customers so you can learn much more about us and the thought process behind the tool. This month, we’re talking with Phil Voulgaris, the ReadyAPI Marketing Lead. Watch the new interview to learn more about Phil and how the team works. If you have any questions to Phil, please post them in comments. >> Watch the interview with Phil Voulgaris Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews, look under the ReadyAPITeam tag. PRODUCT UPDATEs Get the new ReadyAPI version – 3.9 – to access these new great features: REST support in the API Connection test step Smart Assertion And others Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). SMARTBEAR ACADEMY We recently made some major upgrades to the SmartBear Academy – this is a great, free learning resource where you can learn the products and improve your knowledge. Enroll in any courses you like, learn something new, and return to the SmartBear Community to share your new knowledge! You can even earn some more Kudos! Enroll in the ReadyAPI courses in the SmartBear Academy MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Last month, there were so many great discussions. Here are only a few of them – but if anything piques your curiosity, please add your comments: ${projectDir} doesn't resolve correctly How to connect jdbc to an Excel file to fetch data and compare it with XPath match in ReadyAPI Groovy script to run a Teststep doesn't fail when the test Step fails How to get request body using a groovy script in ReadyAPI Newbie Question: Naming standards in ReadyAPI How to enable/disable multiple assertions in a test Suite via groovy script SQL Datasource Prepared Properties using a Property that is a comma separated list That’s all for a month! Got a question? Have a comment? Please feel free to let us know! /SmartBear Community TeamJune 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Greetings Community! Welcome to the June 2021 ReadyAPI Community news, with all the latest and exclusive information from our community. Inside READYAPI - Customer Care Team This month’s community introduction to the ReadyAPI team is Anastasia Batazova, the SmartBear Customer Care Manager for API Products – including ReadyAPI. I’m sure many of you received some great solutions from Anastasia when submitting support tickets in the past. You might have also read her posts in the Community made from Nastya_Khovrina. Today, you will be able to learn more about Nastya (short for Anastasia) and her life at SmartBear. Please give her kudos or leave comments >> Watch the interview with Anastasia Batazova Find more Inside ReadyAPI interviews under the ReadyAPITeam tag. TOP COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS We will already announce the quarterly ReadyAPI Community Leaders next month. Remember that anyone can become a leader – you only need to contribute to the community by posting replies and get Kudos. As for now, please join me in congratulating the most active members of May: nmrao,richie,HimanshuTayal PRODUCT UPDATEs We recently released ReadyAPI 3.8.1 – this is a minor bugfix release that contains improvements in: The Specification panel The API Connection test step More Read the What's New In ReadyAPI article to learn about these and other upgrades. Download it now: If you’re a licensed user, get the latest version at the ReadyAPI Downloads Center. (And if you’re interested in giving ReadyAPI a shot, request a free 14-day trial). SMARTBEAR ACADEMY We recently updated the SmartBear Academy – this is a great learning resource that you can use for free to learn the products and improve your knowledge. Enroll in any courses you like, learn something new, and return to the SmartBear Community to share new knowledge and earn even more Kudos! Visit the Academy site to pick a course MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS InMay, there were many great conversations, and I’m puttingsome of themhere. Do you have anything to add? Just reply to a topic: Assertion for 1 specific value which contains in all results in response Difference between ReadyAPI and TestComplete Best way to programmatically test services with different variables? How create a single test suite to support multiple environment with assertion Breaking up big projects into smaller and faster loading projects Big projects loading slowly - How to manage ? ConditionalGoTo: how does it work? Community Enhancements - Reply by Email Our goal is to keep improving your community experience. Recently we’ve deployed a new feature – now you can reply to the community posts you follow right from the email notification. You can accept solutions and give Kudos, too! Simply click the corresponding link in the email you receive from the SmartBear Community and you are good to go. Read more about this featurehereand stay tuned for more improvements! That’s all for today. Don’t hesitate to post any comments if you have something to add. /SmartBear Community Team
