{
  "id": 15739488,
  "title": "SmartBear’s BearQ adds Sources to find coverage gaps and Workflows to automate test runs",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/smartbears-bearq-adds-sources-to-find-coverage-gaps-and-workflows-to",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T12:01:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SiliconANGLE",
    "slug": "siliconangle",
    "url": "https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/20/smartbears-bearq-adds-sources-to-find-coverage-gaps-and-workflows-to-automate-test-runs/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "SmartBear Software Inc., a software testing company, has expanded its agentic quality assurance system, BearQ, with two new features aimed at addressing coverage gaps and automating test runs. The first feature is called Sources, which broadens BearQ's perspective beyond the application itself by incorporating requirements and bug reports from Atlassian Corp.'s Jira. This allows the system to identify testing gaps before generating new tests, minimizing duplicate tests. The second feature, Workflows, enables teams to chain jobs together, triggered by a single event. For instance, upon a build's arrival in the continuous integration and delivery pipeline, BearQ can generate a test environment and execute regression tests. The system's output is then fed back into the team's connected systems. SmartBear has termed this approach \"progressive autonomy,\" beginning with human oversight before gradually relinquishing control as teams gain confidence. A survey conducted by SmartBear revealed that 23% of respondents cited trust as the primary obstacle to adopting or scaling autonomous testing. Bridges Smith, SmartBear's vice president of product management for AI, referred to autonomous testing as \"the first step,\" emphasizing the greater opportunity in connecting an application's behavior with the team's intentions and the established test suite. Despite the emergence of BearQ, SmartBear continues to develop its product line, which includes Swagger tools for designing application programming interfaces and is utilized by over 32,000 organizations. Expect additional Sources integrations before the quarter ends, and witness a live demonstration of these features on Thursday alongside \"Project Hail Mary\" author Andy Weir.",
  "summary": "Software testing company SmartBear Software Inc. is pushing its BearQ agentic quality assurance system beyond test automation with two new capabilities released today. Both additions target the part of quality assurance that artificial intelligence has made more difficult by speeding up coding. SmartBear calls them Sources and Workflows. Automating individual tests is no longer the […] The post…",
  "key_points": [
    "SmartBear adds Sources feature to BearQ for finding coverage gaps",
    "Workflows feature automates test runs in CI/CD pipeline",
    "23% trust barrier cited for adopting autonomous testing"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Integrating external requirements and automating job chains shifts autonomous testing from simple execution toward a more holistic system that aligns software behavior with developer intentions.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}