July 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 TeamMarch 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello Community, Welcome to the monthly community news. As usual, expect to get the most exciting and interesting news from the ReadyAPI Community. If you have any suggestions or questions about the news, please feel free to post comments here. Now on to the February ReadyAPI Community News: [VIDEO] MEET THE TEAM I’m sure you want to know more about ReadyAPI! I have great news😀 Starting this month, we are launching a series of interviews with the ReadyAPI SmartBear Team – you will learn more about the people who make decisions around the product, how ReadyAPI is developed and tested, and much more! Today, meet the ReadyAPI Product Owner – Temil Sanchez. (You can find him in the community as TSanchez_1) Temil has been working at SmartBear for 8 years! He has great knowledge in the API world that he is ready to share with you. >> Watch the interview with Temil Sanchez Make sure to leave any questions for Temil in the post. ReadyAPI Top Contributors We’re already closing in on quarter-end, which is when we announce the new quarterly Community Leaders. All of you still have a chance to earn this elite status! All you need to do is to participate in the ReadyAPI Community by adding valuable posts that receive Kudos. That being said, let’s meet the top contributors of the previous month – team, you rock! Thanks a lot for your great contributions. richie,HimanshuTayal,ChrisAdams,Arunachalam_RM,PrathapR PRODUCT UPDATES In February, we released ReadyAPI 3.6. It includes various features, like: A new Endpoints & Environments dialog that extends the functionality of the previous Environments dialog An improved Assertions tab A new, improved way to manage APIs in a project Much more Read the What's New in ReadyAPI 3.6article to learn about these and other improvements. 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). Academy Certified The SmartBear Academy provides a set of courses to help you learn ReadyAPI. Different course levels will fit the needs of learners with different skills. Review the ReadyAPI courses and enroll in the ones you like Once you complete a course, you will receive a special community badge – Academy Certified. MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Let’s review the most popular discussions. Have something to add? Just reply to the topics you like: How to compare multiple database values with api response in single shot without groovy scripting? How to set baseline performance Using partitial value in a request Extract nested JSON response values in DataSource for JSON - how to export to file / excel? ReadyAPI - Understanding the result returned by a groovy script? How to use method defined in separate groovy script in different test suite how to run sample rest projects present in smart bear website? OAuth token value in AuthManager update form test (groovy) That’s all we’ve got for today! Please share your thoughts and suggestions, ask questions, or just say "hi" to fellow ReadyAPI Community members by using the comments below. /SmartBear Community TeamFebruary 2021 | ReadyAPI Community News
Hello ReadyAPI Community, Welcome to our first ReadyAPI Community News! In this newsletter, we’ll cover the community news you’ll find most interesting, highlight active contributors in our community, fill you in on the latest updates, and much more. Get in on the ground floor and subscribe now to the CommunityNews tag to stay in the know. And if you have any comments/suggestions about the news, let us know here or contact me personally. Now on to the February ReadyAPI Community News: Video Interview Last month we announced Community Leaders and Heroes, and it’s time to learn more about them. Please meet PrathapR! Thanks to his enormous activity last quarter, Prathap was rewarded with the prestigious status of Community Leader! We conducted a short video interview with him that covered where he’s from, how he uses ReadyAPI to resolve tricky API testing challenges, why he moved from SoapUI to ReadyAPI – even how much he accomplished in a day when joined the SmartBear Community! >> Watch the interview with a Community Leader - PrathapR ReadyAPI Top Contributors Many of you were extremely active last quarter. You asked questions, replied to topics, gave kudos, posted solutions – all of which help the Community become better and better. Please join me in congratulating the following community members for their contributions: richie,ChrisAdams,HimanshuTayal,aaronpliu, SiKing, rajs2020, bklabel1, AsadGilani PRODUCT UPDATES Last month, we released a minor update, ReadyAPI v. 3.5.2, with changes that include: More stability for macOS Some bug fixes Read the What's New in ReadyAPI 3.5.2 to learn about these and other improvements. 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). MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Last month was very active with conversations. Here are some of the more interesting discussions of the past month that helped community members solve their issues: Stop Data Source Loop Adding a default argument to requests Excel data sources - using a relative path name for files Request should pick the data from a file and response should be generated in another file javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Connection reset error We still have a few questions awaiting solutions – feel free to post your thoughts: ReadyAPI Functional Testing Automate Problem ReadyAPI - How to export test results in different formats? I am not able to get output of remote shell script from groovy script in soapui Wintertainment Video Feedback Last December, many of you joined in on our annual community event – Wintertainment. The theme was "New Year Testing Resolutions". Hopefully, you’ve tried using some of the new approaches we covered. Share with us any solutions you’ve already implemented! In the meantime, we received your event feedback and prepared a short video, featuring you! It sounds like you enjoyed participating in the event and learned a lot, which pleases us to no end. Thanks for all your warm words. >> Watch the Wintertainment video feedback That’s all we’ve got for today! Please share your thoughts and suggestions, ask questions, or just say "hi" to fellow ReadyAPI Community members by using the comments below. Thank you, let’s have a great February! /SmartBear Community Team
