SmartBear Delivers New Swagger Capabilities to Elevate API Governance, Quality, and AI Readiness

Swagger innovations provide centralized API discovery and lifecycle management to improve tracking of API existence and readiness while automating contract compliance

SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartBear, a leading provider of software quality and visibility solutions, today announced new Swagger capabilities to better enable organizations to govern, validate, and scale APIs even as AI accelerates software development. The innovations will help ensure that what gets built works as intended and empower teams to move faster with confidence.

AI coding tools are rapidly increasing development velocity and, in so doing, introduce new risks. APIs generated, modified, and consumed faster than ever, often without sufficient visibility or validation, can create gaps in quality, compliance, and trust. Strong governance and continuous verification can help ensure application integrity – continuous, measurable assurance that software works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale.

SmartBear’s new Swagger innovations close these gaps. They give platform and engineering teams the confidence that APIs built at AI speed are still correct, compliant, and production-ready. Key innovations include:

• A revamped Swagger Catalog to improve API visibility so platform teams have a clear view into AI-generated APIs and can enforce governance at scale. Swagger Catalog provides a unified view of API portfolios with lifecycle tracking. It establishes a governance foundation as AI generates and modifies APIs at scale. And, it enables systematic quality maintenance for higher confidence in AI-accelerated development.
• Swagger Contract Testing with drift detection. This continuously verifies that real API behavior matches OpenAPI contracts and prevents silent divergence that can break AI agent integrations and erode documentation trust. It also ensures that AI-assisted changes maintain application integrity and contract compliance. Engineering teams maintain application integrity through continuous validation, and organizations can accelerate development while reducing risk and maintaining quality.

“API programs are scaling across the enterprise. But platform leaders struggle with fragmented discovery and a lack of lifecycle visibility, and engineering and QA teams face silent spec-to-runtime divergence,” said Vineeta Puranik, SmartBear CPTO. “These new Swagger capabilities combine centralized visibility, automated governance and policy enforcement, and continuous validation between design and runtime behavior. This will enable teams to adopt AI-driven development confidently – without sacrificing quality or control.”

Swagger customer Jason Burch, senior lead solution architect for a leading automotive company, also adds, “When you surface hundreds of internal APIs in one place (in Swagger Catalog), it creates visibility across product, development, and architecture teams – and it elevates governance in a way that just isn’t possible with our current workflow.”

The Swagger innovations further bolster SmartBear’s focus on application integrity in the AI-accelerated software development lifecycle. Teams need visibility into APIs being generated by AI tools and automated validation that AI-assisted changes maintain quality and compliance.

Additional Swagger platform advancements include: a new editor experience and AI-powered API generation; context-aware documentation and Spectral-based governance enforcement; MCP Server support for natural language API automation, and expanded multi-protocol support, including OpenAPI 3.1. AsyncAPI 3.0, and GraphQL with unified governance across all protocols.

These enhancements, coming this quarter, further bolster the value of Swagger to enterprises, which a SmartBear-commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study found resulted in a 227% ROI over three years for a global composite organization with 10,000 employees and 200 developers.

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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 www.smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, X, and Reddit.