Specmatic Roadmap - API Testing, Dynamic Stubbing & Smart Mocks

Roadmap

Specmatic has come a long way since its inception in 2019 and we have we exciting plans for the way ahead! Jump to work in progress.

2019

Inception

– Contract-first approach with Gherkin DSL

2019

2020

Completed

– Gherkin DSL for API Specification
– Dynamic Stubbing
– Postman collection to Gherkin DSL

2020

2021

Completed

– Smart Mocks
– Java JUnit5 wrapper
– OpenAPI, Basic Auth & Token Auth
– Backward Compatibility Testing
– SOAP / WSDL
– Postman Collection import
– Node wrapper v1
– Proxy Server

2021

2022

Completed

– Generative Tests
– API Gateway Support
– Server Sent Event (SSE) stub – (Pro plan +)
– AsyncAPI & JMS mock support – (Pro plan +)

2022

Q1 - 2023

Completed

– Redis Stub – (Pro plan +)
– Node wrapper v2
– Hooks for emulating payment gateways
– Maintenance updates

Q1 - 2023

Q2 - 2023

Completed

– JDBC stub – (Pro plan +)
– Python wrapper
– AsyncAPI Kafka support – (Pro plan +)

Q2 - 2023

Q3 - 2023

Completed

– OpenAPI OAuth Security Scheme
– OpenAPI OpenID Security Scheme
– API Coverage Report

Q3 - 2023

Q4 - 2023

Completed

– AsyncAPI 2.6.x – Request Reply pattern support improvements
– VSCode Extension with Generative AI capabilities – beta
– Specmatic Insights – CDD Analytics Dashboard launch
– AsyncAPI Test Interactive HTML report

Q4 - 2023

Q1 - 2024

Completed

– Specmatic Docker image
– OpenAPI Example as both test and stub
– AsyncAPI (general availability)
– Support for all OpenAPI security schemes
– Externalised test data for contract tests
– Google Pub Sub beta

Q1 - 2024

Q2 - 2024

Completed

– GraphQL support
– Google Pub Sub (general availability)
– gRPC support
– Improved / descriptive test names
– Jetbrains IDE plugin
– Specmatic config in YAML
– AsyncAPI HTML Report

Q2 - 2024

Q3 - 2024

In progress

– AsyncAPI 3.x support (beta)
– API Coverage Report for SOAP/WSDL
– Smart Mock Response Fuzzing
– OpenAPI 3.1 support
– OpenAPI links support

Q3 - 2024

Q4 - 2024

Coming Up

– AsyncAPI 3.x support (general availability)
– Mongo DB stubbing
– GoLang Wrapper
– C# .Net Wrapper

Q4 - 2024

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