DevOps! Great! Push it live, quick and fast! DevOps, which officially was born in 2008 [1], is getting more and more popular in software development companies. DevOps software tools alone are already generating an estimated worldwide revenue of $11.9 billion in 2020, only to grow in strong double-digit figures for future years to come [2]. …
Introduction Hi Again, In this post we would like to explain a bit more about the mobile test automation that we are using here at spriteCloud. The past years we have seen that the mix of cucumber with selenium webdriver has been extremely powerful. This setup allows for test automation that is, besides easy to …
While test automation is very useful, sometimes a requirement to maintain good quality, there are several challenges new teams face. This post summarizes some of the major problems.
Our favourite test automation software in the world still remains Cucumber and its Gherkin syntax, but like all software, it has its limitations. In particular, at first glance it is pretty difficult to express workflows in Cucumber that contain branches. In this post, we explain how that can be achieved. Table of Contents The Problem …
When you want to send tidy and attractive emails for marketing or other purposes you quickly come across the common solution of using HTML, and CSS code within emails. In this post we will show you a code snippet that allows you to send HTML emails using pyhton libraries. However, before we start you should …
Build great software faster! CI/CD is hot and is still gaining interest. Test Automation is obviously essential within any Continuous Integration setup in order to get test feedback often and fast. Within the test automation groups here at spriteCloud we have seen a lot of different setups. We have been integrating test automation into CI …
Set up and run your Cucumber and Selenium web tests on Gitlab-CI within minutes Read More »
This presentation will take you through the steps needed to set up a test automation project using Cucumber – a software tool that runs automated tests in the BBD style – in combination with Lapis Lazuli, a gem that provides Cucumber helper functions and scaffolding for easier web test automation suite development. To do this …
Getting started with test automation: Cucumber with Lapis Lazuli Read More »
How can you make Test Automation succeed? The biggest challenge to making a success out of test automation (TA) is maintainability. Maintainability of both your TA test suite as well as the TA infrastructure you are using is critical. I will explain both and describe how to get a successful TA setup on the API …
Successful test automation with Cucumber in the Cloud Read More »
spriteCloud participated in the “NRC Carièrre monitor 2016/2017” survey and placed 41. On 23 January 2017 the NRC Carrière Monitor published the results of their research at an event in Amsterdam. The evening included an inspiring presentation about Talent Management from industry-expert Prof. Lidewey van der Sluis. Consultancy.nl plublished the post top 50 employers of …
spriteCloud placed 41 in the NRC Carrière monitor research for best employers Read More »
Since starting spriteCloud we have been setting up test automation suites for our clients using the frameworks Cucumber and Selenium webdriver. We notice that more and more eCommerce companies also show interest in test automation and particularly this test setup. Also, since the holiday season is typically the biggest revenue generating period, follow our 5 …
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spriteCloud ranked in the top half of the EMEA Deloitte FAST 500. A ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over four years. spriteCloud grew 456 percent during this period and reached place 222. spriteCloud’s CEO, Andy McDowell, credits this revenue …
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On the 10 of November 2015 the FD Gazellen Awards 2015 for Noord-Holland took place at the ABN AMRO Headquarters in Amsterdam. In total, 490 companies are selected as FD Gazelle 2015 and around 77 of these are small businesses located in Noord-Holland. We are very proud of the fact that spriteCloud is in the …
FD Gazellen 2015 – SpriteCloud is FD gazellen again! Read More »
We are proud to announce that spriteCloud made it to the Deloitte Technology FAST50 list of 2015 in The Netherlands. On Friday 9th of October the Deloitte Technology Fast50 event will take place where the ranking of this top 50 will be published. Companies in the Fast50 list are judged based on their revenue growth …
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Yesterday at spriteCloud, we discussed how Safari is the new IE, meaning that of the major browsers, Safari seems to lag further and further behind in providing an up-to-date Web experience. Elsewhere, that article turned into a different discussion: does it even matter to end-users if there is one browser that needs to be supported …
Last night, the Agile Testing @Munich meetup group gathered in rooms graciously provided by ConSol* Consulting & Solutions GmbH to hear about test automation frameworks. Yours truly contributed with a high level introduction to Cucumber, with some reference to our Lapis Lazuli extensions and spriteCloud Calliope.
Introduction In our post on the topic of Cucumber, we provided a complete setup guide for cucumber and related packages on Windows. This week, we’re going to cover the basics of cucumber. You’ll learn about what each file in a test suite means, and you will write test scenarios in Gherkin structured English.
We’re excited to announce the release of our test automation product spriteCloud Calliope! spriteCloud Calliope is the culmination of our years of experience with helping our customers integrate test automation into their development process. When we provide automated testing services, we typically use cucumber with our own LapisLazuli extensions. Between them, these tools tackle the …
We’re thrilled to announce the public release of LapisLazuli. The Open Source project is the fruit of our years of experience with automated testing of web applications and APIs. When we provide automated testing, we use other Open Source tools like cucumber, Watir and Selenium. LapisLazuli adds functionality on top of those projects for test …
When we talk about either of performance, load and stress testing, we sometimes encounter confusion about the three terms. No wonder, since they all involve the same tools and techniques! And to make matters worse, we ourselves often lump them together under the “perf & load” label. But while all three test methods share similar …
In Agile development, Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is considered an anti-pattern. As with any pattern and anti-pattern, people — engineers in particular — have a tendency to treat them as rules, as laws that Shall Not Be Broken (TM). The unfortunate side-effect can be that in teams where that mode of thinking prevails, any …
