SmartBear's State of Software Quality and Testing 2026 report found that 81% of organizational leaders believe AI can reliably catch its own errors despite having no evidence, while only 64% of softwa…
SmartBear has made its BearQ agentic QA system available as an assignable testing agent in Atlassian Jira, following BearQ's March launch, letting teams set autonomy levels for autonomous testing of a…
A developer built an unattended Claude Code plugin, ultracode-live-engineer, that automatically reviews Slack-mentioned PRs, follows up on its own PRs, and picks up Jira tickets. After 163 wake-ups, i…
A developer estimates that human code review costs $0.243 per changed line, 2.1 times the $0.114 model spend for an AI agent to produce an accepted changed line, based on a SmartBear/Cisco study, U.S.…
Engineers can use AI to code faster without creating review debt by having the AI write a plan first, keeping pull requests under 400 lines, and using fresh agents to validate code before submission. …