COVID-19 has brought drastic changes to the way people work almost overnight. The most visible change is the move away from offices to remote locations, which typically is a person’s own home. In fact, the WFH (Working From Home) update on a person’s online social spaces is the new normal. A person who is not WFH is …
Over the last couple of years I have worked on many projects using the Gitflow workflow. This well established workflow works really well for teams working according to Scrum. For a detailed explanation of the Gitflow workflow I highly recommend reading Vincent Driessen’s blog. I would also recommend reading our post about how to setup …
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We have been selected as a member of the Fast Growth Icons Amsterdam Network, an invitation-only network for well-established, fast-growing businesses. The network brings together the founders and CEOs of later-stage startups to discuss the practical realities of building a $100m+ revenue business. Reflecting our success and rapid growth, we are immensely proud to be …
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Today spriteCloud officially launches our Test Automation as a Service (TAaaS) commercial offering. This is the culmination of many years of hard work and planning, and I am immensely proud to say we are finally here. We’ve also written many articles about software testing over the years and have recently brought them together in one …
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I love Scrum. There, I said it. Yes, I know I am a married man, and I should not have another love next to my wife, but it is true and I am proud of it: I love Scrum. Every time I read the Scrum guide, I get butterflies in my stomach. It is like …
The Scrum apocalypse: changing the way we implement Scrum Read More »
A long time ago, in ancient Greek, Oedipus was travelling to Thebe. On his way, he crossed the path of a Sphinx. The Sphinx stopped all travellers on the road to Thebe to ask them a riddle. If they were not able to answer the riddle correctly, they would be killed and eaten. If the …
At spriteCloud, we love technology. We are one of Europe’s first Virtual Reality testing companies and we are proud of it. So, when VR days Europe was held on our doorstep, we did not hesitate to dive in! We were proud sponsors of the event and our testers were active participants. I went there on …
A couple of weeks ago, I met them. In real life. Scrum zombies! It was at Scrum day Europe 2016. Scrum day is not their natural habitat, they were brought in by two highly skilled Scrum zombie fighters as examples of what can happen when you are touched by the Scrum zombie virus. The zombies …
Recently I saw on one of Linkedin’s software testing groups a post that said Yahoo no longer does software testing. The headline was meant to grab the attention of the group in a controversial way so as to guarantee a lot of discussion. And, it did. So what do they do? I asked as I …
At spriteCloud, we have our own test lab consisting of a broad range of mobile devices to test on. As you can understand, in the current market of mobile phones, it can be difficult to keep a test lab up to date; new phones are released all year round. Updates to operating systems are pretty …
Recently, I passed the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification on Scrum.org. Reading the Scrum guide made me wonder: What is the benefit of doing the PSM I certification to a tester? Testers do not have a specified role in a Scrum team, they are just one of the guys/girls developing. But most functional …
What is the benefit of Scrum Master certification to a Software Tester? Read More »
If you, like me work in a place where there are more projects than there are QA staff to test them, you’ll see a situation where individuals are assigned to multiple projects. This is never going to be an ideal situation for either the individual or the projects that they are involved with. There are …
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Evaluating the success of test automation is a lot like pagan mystic voodoo; there is a lot of activity involved, much chanting and ranting; and a fair amount of ritual, with the end result being completely valid, or highly dubious. We here would all believe that there is value in automation, otherwise we wouldn’t be …
Evaluating the success of test automation; can it really be done with metrics? Read More »
Recently I was at a company whose QA effort was done part time by a receptionist, typically just before the release went out. The senior project manager would get her to spend an hour clicking around a pre-production site to see if – in her estimation – it worked sufficiently well to go live to …
Building a Ruby on Rails test server on FreeBSD 8.0 RC1 We’re a Ruby on Rails shop at our place and we work on a number of different platforms for developing and testing our stuff; the devs normally work on macs, while the staging environment – this week – is Ubuntu’s Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) distribution. However I’m …
Late last week I had the pleasure of visiting a startup that is doing some very interesting things in the social network/online community web space. Like most 2.0 web development shops they consist of a small high performance technical team that work side-by-side a non technical team, each of whom all share equal responsibility for …
Does “process” have to mean “control” which is seen as “bad”? Read More »
There are a good number of different join models with Rails, some more complicated than others. One of my favorite is has_many :through, it lets you join two models together using a separate join table which can also hold extra attributes for that join. So… a release has many test cases, but a test case …
I got to thinking about this – again for the umpteenth time – during an informal lunch conversation with a group of developers and QA’ers discussing challenges in their jobs. This friend of mine, who is a very senior individual at his social network startup, was telling us a story about the problems that he …
What’s the real value in QA for cloud consumer services? Read More »
