July 4, 2017 / by Travis Hatridge / Lessons in the trenches, News, Publicity, QA Culture, QA Value, Recruitment, Team Work, Test Process
This week, Hozan Said, our new Business Development Manager, talks about his impression of spriteCloud’s working culture. I joined spriteCloud at the beginning of June and my first impression was really positive. The team wanted to make me feel at home. During the day, the CEO and COO and my new colleagues asked me several […]
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Press Release: spriteCloud Launches Subscription-Based Software Testing Services
January 9, 2020 / by Travis Hatridge / DevOps, News, Press Release, Publicity, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Automation, DevOps, Lessons in the trenches, QA Value, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / News, Security, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud, News, QA Culture, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Automation, Life at spriteCloud, QA Culture, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Automation, Browser Based, Browsers, CI/CD, Tools
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Automation, Lessons in the trenches, QA Value, Test Process, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Automation, CI/CD, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Domain Expertise, Security, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / News, Security, Uncategorized
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 / by Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
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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Getting to know us: Travis Hatridge, our new Digital Marketer
March 14, 2019 / by Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
spriteCloud has been on a bit of a hiring spree lately, which is great! We’ve got a lot of new faces to introduce over the next few weeks, so keep an eye out for more of our “Getting to know..” pieces, as there are many more to come. To start off with, we are going […]
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Getting to know us: Neethu Kiran, our new Frontend Developer
March 11, 2019 / by Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
One of our newest additions to the team is the wonderful, and as you will notice later, the fairly quiet Neethu. Coming from the exotic sub-continent of India, she joins us as a frontend developer working on our SaaS solution for test results visualisation, Calliope.pro
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Introducing, the new spriteCloud website design
March 6, 2019 / by Travis Hatridge / News, Uncategorized
If you know spriteCloud, you know about our great reputation when it comes to providing expert software testing solutions to clients of all sizes. You might also know what our website looked like and how it was pretty outdated. ‘Was’ being the key word there. After several years putting marketing aside to focus on other […]
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Getting to know us: Shivendra Pratap Singh, our new Test Engineer
March 5, 2019 / by Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
Not only is Shivendra a great guy, he is a great tester! We are glad to have him join our little family and are using this opportunity to learn a little more about him. Hello Shivendra, welcome to spriteCloud! Glad to have you join the family. Tell us about yourself! Hello everyone. My name is […]
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Press Release: Amsterdam-based software testing services provider, spriteCloud, launches ‘ethical hacking’ penetration testing services
February 18, 2019 / by Travis Hatridge / News, Press Release, Publicity, Security, Uncategorized
Ethical hackers are certified security experts attempting to gain entry into your website, application or network using methods and knowledge available to malicious hackers. The goal is to discover vulnerabilities for you before real hackers do. Amsterdam, NL: January 24th, 2019 – spriteCloud B.V., a provider of software testing services, announces the introduction of security […]
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The benefits of using an external test lab
September 14, 2017 / by Travis Hatridge / Domain Expertise, Lessons in the trenches, mobile testing, QA Culture, QA Value, Test Environments, Test Process, Tools, Uncategorized
In a world of cloud-based tooling, sometimes what you really need is to see how your app might work on a real device. I have visited this topic in a previous post, when I discussed the factors you should take into account when conducting cross-browser testing. I’d like to zoom in closer on the last […]
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The new way of testing
July 4, 2017 / by Travis Hatridge / Lessons in the trenches, News, Publicity, QA Culture, QA Value, Recruitment, Team Work, Test Process
This week, Hozan Said, our new Business Development Manager, talks about his impression of spriteCloud’s working culture. I joined spriteCloud at the beginning of June and my first impression was really positive. The team wanted to make me feel at home. During the day, the CEO and COO and my new colleagues asked me several […]
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The testing recruitment Challenge
April 26, 2017 / by Travis Hatridge / Recruitment
Monday, starting the week with another day in recruitment, where you hope that your inbox will be filled with good CV’s of software testers. Not only non-EU candidates but also Dutch speaking testers with test automation skills. Unfortunately for me, the market has flipped totally from a client driven market to a candidate driven market. […]
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