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SpriteCloud nominated for the LiveWIRE Young Business Award 2010

November 4, 2010 / By Mark Barzilay / News and PR

After participating in the LEF contest, spriteCloud is nominated for the Shell LiveWIRE Award. Here follows the dutch press release: Validatie van website-functionaliteit Zouden Bol.com of Vliegwinkel.nl ooit zo succesvol zijn geworden wanneer er in de website functionele fouten zouden zitten? Complexe websites met bestelstructuren, aanmeldschermen of andere functies met een hoge interactiegraad dienen zeer …

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Dealing effectively with multiple project time splits

October 9, 2010 / By Andy / Testing Methods and Experience

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; can it really be done with metrics?

August 29, 2010 / By Andy / Automation

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 …

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Cucumber Testing in Cross-Functional Teams

August 8, 2010 / By Mark Barzilay / Cucumber and Gherkin

Here at spriteCloud we love cucumber. It’s a test framework for behaviour driven development (BDD), that is a development practice that includes testing during development. We love it so much we’ve created a Cucumber and Gherkin Guide to combine our experience into on resource. BDD is slightly different from other test methodologies in that it’s …

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Put Software Quality Assurance in it’s Place!

August 1, 2010 / By Mark Barzilay / Testing Methods and Experience

Here at spriteCloud HQ, we all share the same background story. Details vary wildly, of course, but some or all of the following holds true for each one of us: We’ve all worked at companies where software quality assurance didn’t exist. We’ve worked at companies where it didn’t exist, yet some people maintained it did. …

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Can a receptionist do QA?

April 6, 2010 / By Andy / Testing Methods and Experience

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 …

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spriteCloud reaches newspaper

April 2, 2010 / By Mark Barzilay / News and PR

And another exiting month it has been for spriteCloud. On the 16th of March 2010 spriteCloud participated in the 4th round of the respected dutch entrepreneurial contest heblef. A round where entrepreneurial startups present their business and prospects for a wide audience. The focus of the presentation was not so much on spriteCloud’s services and …

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Web testing with Cucumber

March 15, 2010 / By Mark Barzilay / Cucumber and Gherkin

Agile testing methods One of the keys to a successful agile software project is considering testing from the beginning. While in some projects, especially web projects, testing is sometimes an afterthought, one member of the team clicking away on the site for a while before deployment to production, which is not really a sustainable way …

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Posting forms with Python

January 8, 2010 / By Mark Barzilay / Python

When you are automating your website tests, you will probably run into forms that need testing sooner or later. Even better (or worse), you wont be able to automate your tests at all if a simple login post is needed to access your site and you are unable to do so. In python there are …

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Ruby in Web test automation – The Questions

October 20, 2009 / By Mark Barzilay / Ruby

How come Ruby ? There are several important Ruby projects, which are also increasing the popularity of the Ruby language in general: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/libraries/ The most interesting projects from my (and this blog posts) point of view are Watir and Ruby on Rails, the former from a testers point of view, the latter from web …

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RubyonRails Freebsd 8.0 RC1

October 18, 2009 / By Andy / Ruby

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 …

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Starting a new test project

October 1, 2009 / By Mark Barzilay / Testing Methods and Experience

Starting to test a project is always a challenge. You don’t necessarily know what to expect of the software. It is supposed to be almost ready, but the definition of ready varies a lot based on the individual developer. And not only of the developer. There are many external factors affecting the project and pushing …

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Does “process” have to mean “control” which is seen as “bad”?

September 29, 2009 / By Andy / Testing Methods and Experience

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 …

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activerecord has_many :through relationship

September 29, 2009 / By Andy / Testing Methods and Experience

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 …

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What’s the real value in QA for cloud consumer services?

September 26, 2009 / By Andy / Testing Methods and Experience

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 …

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