Roadmap

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

Work in Progress
Feature Overview

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

Completed

– Enhanced OpenAPI Support

  • HTML Report Generation
  • Interactive Examples (generation & validation)

– Domain-Aware Contract Intelligence

– Monitoring & Diagnostics

– Developer Experience

  • VSCode plugin enhancement to enable agentic workflows.

– Sample Implementation Projects

Q3 - 2024

Q4 - 2024

Completed

– OpenAPI enhancements

  • Discriminator support
  • Filtering
  • Optional Headers

– Overlays Support

  • extend / customize your OpenAPI specs using OpenAPI overlays

– Stateful Stubs

Q4 - 2024

Q1 - 2025

In Progress

– Arazzo support

  • Build Workflows in OpenAPI using Arazzo

– AsyncAPI 3.x support – General availability

– OpenAPI 3.1 support

– OpenAPI Links support

Q1 - 2025

Q2 - 2025

Coming Up

– Mongo DB stubbing
– GoLang Wrapper
– C# .Net Wrapper

– GraphQL enhancements
  • backward compatibility
  • Proxy
  • Examples generation
  • API coverage report (html format)
  • subselection
  • variables
  • http headers support

– API Coverage Report for SOAP/WSDL

– Smart Mock Response Fuzzing

Q2 - 2025

Q3 - 2025

Coming Up

– gRPC enhancements

  • backward compatibility
  • Proxy
  • Examples generation
  • API coverage report (html format)

– OpenAPI 2.0 support

Q3 - 2025

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Specmatic Feature Overview

LEGEND:
✓ : existing
✓ : new
n/a : not applicable
Q4, Q1  : pipeline
  OpenAPI
 
 gRPC
 
 GraphQL
 
 AsyncAPI
KAFKA
 AsyncAPI
Google Pub/Sub
 AsyncAPI
JMS
 AsyncAPI
MQTT
 AsyncAPI
SOLACE
2.0  3.0 3.1 3.0 3.0 2.6 3.0 2.6 3.0 2.6 3.0 2.6 3.0 2.6 3.0
Testing
API Contract Test ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
API Resiliency Test ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Filtering based on meta-data (path, method, headers etc..) ✓                        
Extensible Schema (allow fields in addition to those in spec) ✓ n/a                      
API Testing (Response Value Validation) ✓     ✓ ✓                
Skip Work In Progress (WIP) Operations ✓                        
Configurable Timeouts ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Simulate API Gateways using Hooks ✓                        
Multi-part data & file uploads ✓                        
API Security (for details refer below) ✓                        
Inline examples as test data ✓ n/a n/a ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
External examples as test data ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Test Reports in industry standard JUnit XML ✓                        
API Coverage report on the console ✓ ✓ ✓                    
Interactive HTML API Coverage Report ✓ Q1 Q1                    
OpenAPI Links (for workflows) n/a Q1 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a        
Service Virtualization (Stub / Mock)
Intelligent service virtualization   ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Virtual Service (Stateful mocking)   ✓                          
Inline Examples as stub data ✓ n/a n/a ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
External examples as stub data   ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Domain-aware responses using Dictionary   ✓                          
Extensible Schema (allow fields in addition to those in spec)   ✓                          
Discriminator for polymorphic schemas   ✓                          
Data-type based stub matching   ✓   ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Static expectations (loaded at stub initialization) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓        
Dynamic expectations (loaded while the stub is running)   ✓                          
Transient expectations (one-time disposable expectations)   ✓                          
Fault simulation (Delays, errors, empty state etc...)   ✓                          
RegEx support   ✓                          
Dynamic Response Generation via External Scripts   ✓                          
Response value substitution from Request   ✓                          
Partial examples (Specify only what matters)   ✓                          
SSL/HTTPS support   ✓                          
Simulate API Gateways using Hooks   ✓                          
Callback Simulation (Triggers)                              
Stub usage report   ✓                          
Breaking Change Protection (Backward and Forward Compatibility)
Pre-commit hooks, on local machine,   ✓   ✓ ✓                    
Pre-merge checks, in CI pipeline   ✓   ✓ ✓                    
Exclude work in progress operations   ✓                          
Specification version migration           ✓ ✓                
Examples
Generate & Validate examples, via Command line   ✓   Q1 Q1                    
Generate & Validate examples, via Interactive HTML interface   ✓   Q1 Q1                    
Inline editor for examples in Interactive HTML interface   ✓                          
Generate domain-relevant example data using dictionary   ✓                          
Specification Augmentation
Overlays   ✓   n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a        
Arazzo   Q1   n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a        
Auth & Auth Support (security schemes)
OAuth2   ✓                          
API Key   ✓                          
Bearer   ✓                          
Basic Auth   ✓                          
Specification generation
from traffic (proxy mode)   ✓   Q1 Q1                    
from sample requests   ✓                          
from Postman collections   ✓                          
IDE Plugins (VSCode Extension, IntelliJ Plugin)
LLM based example generation   ✓                          
Run API Contract Tests   ✓                          
Insights Dashboard
Dependency Diagram   ✓                          
Governance Charts   ✓                          
Adoption Metrics   ✓                          
Note: SSE support is being revamped and will soon be available with AsyncAPI 3.0 support.
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