Travis Hatridge, Author at spriteCloud

eCommerce Testing: Best Practices for Testing eCommerce Sites Before the Holidays

November 5, 2020 January 6, 2021 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Methods and Experience, Uncategorized

Days Hours Minutes Black Friday is here! Is your webshop running properly? Until Black Friday Begins Table of Contents This holiday shopping season is going to be very busy. For many retail businesses, the holiday shopping season is typically the most important period of the year to earn revenue. This year is even more crucial …

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Five Best Practices for Successful Salesforce Testing

September 22, 2020 November 30, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Methods and Experience

Five Berst Practices for Salesforce Testing

Salesforce is a popular customer relationship management (CRM) application and ecosystem that has grown rapidly in market share and maturity over the last ten years or so. Salesforce’s CRM offering and its accompanying customer service, marketing automation, and application development features have made it an incredibly popular choice for enterprise-level organisations. As with any complex, …

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spriteCloud nominated for Computable Award 2020

September 4, 2020 September 4, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

We are happy to announce that spriteCloud has been nominated for Computable.nl’s Service Award for 2020. It is always an honour to be recognised for our contribution to the software development and quality assurance world, and to also be included with organistions of this calibre. Even if we don’t win the award, this nomination tells …

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spriteCloud on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 List

September 1, 2020 September 1, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

spriteCloud made it on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list

We recently learned that spriteCloud made it on Deloitte’s prestigious Fast 500 list! We are very happy about that fact. We ranked number 473 on the Technology Fast 500 list for EMEA with growth of 177%. This list is a ranking of the fasted growing technology companies in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. …

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Press Release: spriteCloud appoints Justin Leavenworth as Managing Director of Cybersecurity

August 4, 2020 August 4, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

After a successful 18 months of offering cybersecurity and penetration testing services, spriteCloud has appointed a dedicated managing director to further grow the cybersecurity services arm of the company. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – August 3, 2020 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam-based quality assurance testing and cybersecurity services provider, is announcing the appointment of Justin Leavenworth …

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Calliope Pro: Manage Teams of Remote Working Developers and Testers

March 31, 2020 July 29, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Agile and DevOps

Remote Working Tool For Devs and Testers

The coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has the world in panic, economies crashing, and businesses struggling to adapt to a new way of working, working from home. spriteCloud is now providing assistance to businesses with its COVID-19 Business Aid Package. Learn more about how this could help your business. As businesses try to adapt to remote working …

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Testing Titans: Alex Schladebeck, Managing Director and Head of Quality

March 25, 2020 June 29, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Titans Interviews

Welcome to the second instalment in the Testing Titans series! The goal behind these interviews is to lift the veil on the software testing world and shine a light on the concepts, tools, and people that are shaping the industry. Keep an eye out for this series of in-depth interviews with these thought leaders and …

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Press Release: spriteCloud Launches Subscription-Based Software Testing Services

January 9, 2020 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

Software Testing Subscription simplifies testing.

New monthly subscription service aims to make software quality assurance more consistent and affordable in the face of ever quicker software release cycles. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – January 2nd, 2020 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam based software testing and cybersecurity services provider, announces the launch of a Software Testing Subscription service. The new subscription model …

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Testing Titans: Bas Dijkstra, test automation trainer and consultant

November 22, 2019 June 29, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Titans Interviews

Welcome to Testing Titans! Consider this the first in a series of many in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the software testing and quality assurance industry. The goal behind these interviews and, the series as a whole, is to lift the veil on the software testing world and shine a light on the concepts, …

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Getting to know us: Justin Kruisdijk, our new Business Development Manager

November 4, 2019 June 26, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud

He’s tall, he’s friendly, he’s Dutch, and he’s a Feyenoord fan. We won’t hold it against you, Justin. All jokes aside though, we’re happy to welcome Justin as the newest member of the spriteCloud family and the newest addition to our Business Development team. Tell us about yourself. Hi! My name is Justin Kruisdijk. I …

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Dutch site’s zero-day hack: a lesson in vulnerability scanning

November 1, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Cybersecurity

The hack of the Dutch site, hookers.nl, provides a valuable lesson on cybersecurity.

Last month (at the time of writing this post), a Dutch website was hacked. This was not just any website. It was a forum used by, among others, employees of Dutch governmental institutions like law enforcement, foreign affairs and the ministry of defence. Normally such a breach would simply mean that users of the affected …

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FD Gazellen 2019, another award on the shelf!

October 25, 2019 June 26, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

Great news! For the fifth time, spriteCloud joins roughly 700 other businesses in the Netherlands in being awarded the FD Gazellen by Het Financieele Dagblad (The Financial Daily Paper). The FD Gazellen is an award given to the fastest-growing companies of the year. Not only is revenue an assessment criteria but also growth in full-time …

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Getting to know us: Marianne Uhl, our new Test Automation Engineer Intern

October 11, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud

It’s been about half a year since our last intern Robin left us and in that period we started to miss the youthful energy that comes with working with an impressionable student who is eager to learn. We were fortunate enough to be able to bring Marianne on board, who is not only a quick …

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LambdaTest cross-browser testing results in Calliope.pro

September 13, 2019 January 5, 2021 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Tools and Languages

spriteCloud’s Calliope.pro and LambdaTest team up to deliver functional testing results. What this means is that we have identified LambdaTest as an excellent solution for cross-browser functional testing in the cloud and recommend it to clients as our preferred Functional Testing Partner. This also means that LambdaTest has also seen great potential in Calliope.pro as …

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Test automation: Benefits and Drawbacks

August 19, 2019 July 2, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Automation

Like many processes, test automation is a coin with two sides to it. When done correctly, test automation can significantly increase your development team’s performance and test coverage. On the other hand, test automation can also be difficult to implement, maintain, and stay on budget. This is especially the case with an inexperienced team and …

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The difference between manual testing and test automation

May 29, 2019 July 2, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Automation

While the differences between these two forms of testing is pretty obvious by their names, manual and automated. While it seems clear, it is important to give a fuller explanation to these two different yet inexorably connected forms of tests. If you have spent as much time reading, working, and thinking about test automation as …

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Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Scanning: what’s the difference?

March 29, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Cybersecurity

There is a considerable amount of confusion in the security testing industry regarding penetration testing. This confusion mainly revolves around understanding the differences between what is penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Despite the two services being quite different, they are equally vital for evaluating and maintaining an organisation’s security posture. This situation has come about …

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spriteCloud adds new tests to its security and penetration testing services

March 25, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

spritecloud expands its security testing and penetration testing services.

Back in January spriteCloud began offering security testing services to current and prospective clients. Specifically, those testing services were penetration testing for web applications, infrastructure, and mobile applications. As mentioned in our press release from January 24th, 2019, our decision to begin offering security and penetration testing services grew out of the recent notable increases …

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Getting to know us: John Lock, our new Test Engineer

March 19, 2019 June 26, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud

This week we get to welcome a new addition to our Technical Testing team, John Lock. John has lived all around the world understands the more important aspects of life, like becoming a great foosball player. Jokes aside, get to know this great tester and citizen of the world, John Lock. Hello John, welcome to …

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