SmartBear Partners with 3scale to Deliver Plug-in for Ready! API

BEVERLY, Mass. - Dec. 3, 2014 - PRLog -- SmartBear Software, the choice of more than two million software professionals for building and delivering the world’s best applications, released a new plug-in for Ready! API that allows users to import APIs from developer portals managed by 3scale.

3scale is leading the way for the API economy with their full-featured all-in-one API management solution that provides API Management, administration, traffic reports and developer portals. Trusted by more than 425 live APIs, 3scale helps organizations of any size to open, manage and use APIs, unlocking the huge potential of data. Their API management platform is built to be an all-in-one solution, allowing API providers to easily package, distribute, manage and monetize APIs.

In addition to their commitment to API providers, 3scale’s mission is to make it easy for API consumers to use and understand the APIs managed on their platform. SmartBear, makers of SoapUI and Ready! API, shares the same goal by providing developers and testers common tooling to test mock services and APIs. The collaboration between SmartBear and 3scale provides even more capabilities for API consumers, allowing them to import APIs so they can explore them and easily create tests for them. By using the common denominator of Swagger definitions, both 3scale and SmartBear make it simple to understand and explore an API’s capabilities.

“Despite the fact that APIs are becoming pervasive, there are still areas in the API lifecycle that are not well supported by tools, making some actions cumbersome,” said Manfred Bortenschlager, API Market Development Director at 3scale. “Our collaboration with SmartBear delivers a free 3scale plug-in for Ready! API, making it very easy for our customers to import, test and refine their APIs.”

Ready! API’s plug-in architecture makes extending the tool fast and easy. The plug-in framework uses annotation-based extension points instead of XML configuration files and provides automatic installation of any third-party dependencies. Ready! API offers a plug-in browser so Ready! API users are able to find and install plug-ins quickly and easily. The new Import From 3scale plug-in was released on November 25, 2014 and is available for all SoapUI NG Pro and ServiceV Pro users.

“Enabling developers and testers to easily explore, virtualize, test and monitor APIs is core to our vision for the Ready! API Platform,” said Ole Lensmar, CTO of SmartBear. “We are excited to launch this plug-in with 3scale, as it both aligns with this mission and shows how easy it is to extend the reach of the Ready! API tools to other key players in the API economy.”

Recently released to market, Ready! API is an end-to-end API readiness platform with tools for testing and virtualizing your APIs. Ready! API has various application modules available including SoapUI NG Pro, the next generation of SoapUI for testing all Web services, including REST and SOAP APIs as well as the ServiceV Pro module for creating, managing and sharing virtualized assets. Ready! API is available for download at http://smartbear.com/product/ready-api/free-trial/.

About Ready! API

SmartBear’s Ready! API is the first fully integrated, extensible and affordable platform to help development, testing and operations teams build reliable, scalable and secure APIs. For updates, follow @ready_api on Twitter. For more information on the Ready! API tools, visit: http://smartbear.com/product/ready-api/overview/.

About 3scale

3scale provides a comprehensive API management platform that lets API providers easily package, distribute, manage and monetize APIs through a SaaS API infrastructure that is flexible, secure and Web scalable. The platform enables the distribution of a company's data, content or services to multiple devices or mobile/Web applications, as well as the ability to easily productize APIs. Since 2009 more than 450 APIs have been powered by 3scale. Customers span the Fortune 500, government, academia, and startups. 3scale customers include Coldwell Banker, Johnson Controls, SITA, Transport For London (TFL), UC Berkeley, Wine.com among others. The company also powers APItools for API consumers and APIs.io, the worlds first open source API search engine. For more information, visit www.3scale.net.

About SmartBear Software

SmartBear is the choice of more than two million software professionals and over 25,000 organizations in 90 countries that use its products to build and deliver the world’s best software applications. The company’s quality management software supports the key application delivery processes of development, testing, API readiness and end user experience monitoring across desktop, Web and mobile platforms. With millions of developers, testers and operations teams already using its products, SmartBear is profitable, growing and global. Get started on the path to building and delivering the planet’s next great application at www.smartbear.com.