October 23, 2018 / by MRC / Automation, CI/CD, Domain Expertise, News, Publicity, Tools, Uncategorized
Calliope.pro imports JSON and XML test results from Cucumber, jUnit and other major software test automation tools and makes the data easily accessible in a central, shareable dashboard Amsterdam, The Netherlands – October 23, 2018 – spriteCloud B.V., a provider of software testing services, announces the worldwide availability of the unified test results dashboard Calliope.pro. […]
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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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Mobile Automation Testing Tools: Test Automation For Rapid App Development
March 7, 2019 / by spriteCloud / Android, Automation, Lessons in the trenches, mobile testing, QA Value, Test Process, Tools, Uncategorized
As with most development, mobile application development uses an agile way of working. Mobile app testing manually can be repetitive and time-consuming which costs you more time and money at the same time by onboarding more people to do the manual test. In line with sprint-based development, mobile automation testing has increased in popularity among […]
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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 You might also know what our website looked like and how it was pretty outdated.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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Amsterdam-based software testing services provider, spriteCloud, launches ‘ethical hacking’ penetration testing services
February 18, 2019 / by Travis Hatridge / News, 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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Press release: spriteCloud launches Calliope.pro for immediate use by worldwide test automation community
October 23, 2018 / by MRC / Automation, CI/CD, Domain Expertise, News, Publicity, Tools, Uncategorized
Calliope.pro imports JSON and XML test results from Cucumber, jUnit and other major software test automation tools and makes the data easily accessible in a central, shareable dashboard Amsterdam, The Netherlands – October 23, 2018 – spriteCloud B.V., a provider of software testing services, announces the worldwide availability of the unified test results dashboard Calliope.pro. […]
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Getting to know us: Jue Xu, Test Manager
March 6, 2018 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
At spriteCloud, we’re as international as the UN. Jue Xu, originally from Shanghai, joined us recently as a Test Manager and has taken the time to answer a couple of questions about herself.
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The 3 most common mistakes writing Gherkin features
March 5, 2018 / by Gijs Paulides / Automation, gherkin
In the past, I’ve worked on many projects where they either used Gherkin to describe functionality or to be used for test automation. You can have a look at how to write Gherkin scripts with a straightforward example if you need a primer on the topic. The following recommendations are useful for both usages.
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5 best practices for ecommerce testing during the holiday season
November 29, 2017 / by Rebecca Hogg / Automation, Domain Expertise, Lessons in the trenches, Test Environments, Uncategorized
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have just passed for 2017, with online businesses continuing the annual trend of conquering more of the global market. This is a pretty predictable result, and highlights the need for retailers to make sure their ecommerce website is performing at optimal levels during the holiday season. We’ve tested A LOT […]
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Set up and run your Cucumber and Selenium web tests on Gitlab-CI within minutes
November 14, 2017 / by Mark Barzilay / Automation, CI/CD, Cucumber, gherkin
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 […]
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Getting to know: Loes Besters, our newest Software Test Engineer
November 9, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
spriteCloud has welcomed many new people to the team these past few months, and Loes is our newest addition. She is joining us as a Junior Software Test Engineer after a career break, and is excited to get back into the world of testing. Read on to find about more about her.
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Complete Setup Guide for Ruby, Cucumber and Watir on Windows (2017)
November 7, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Automation, Cucumber, Ruby, Uncategorized, Watir
Introduction Our last post on installing Ruby, Cucumber and Watir was written in 2015. But since then, things have changed and software has been updated, so it’s time for another update!
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VR Days Europe 2017: what’s happening in the VR industry?
November 3, 2017 / by spriteCloud / mobile testing, Uncategorized, VR
Viewing virtual reality from a developer’s perspective is one thing, but looking at it from a tester’s viewpoint is something else altogether. This is what we aimed to talk about at VR Days this year. Last year we proudly sponsored the event and members of our team went as visitors to enjoy the conference and […]
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Pioneering Appium with Ruby for Mobile Test Automation, Part 3: Building the Environment
October 31, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Automation, mobile testing, Ruby, Uncategorized
Huzza! More pioneering at hand. I’ll continue where we left off in my previous blog post.
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The impact of thermal throttling and low-quality texture on VR testing sessions
October 25, 2017 / by Sergiu Julinschi / Lessons in the trenches, mobile testing, QA Culture, Uncategorized, VR
I have been involved with testing many VR and AR applications, and I can safely say that they all come with their own specific challenges when it comes to the implementation of software testing. To run a testing project in this field successfully and not interfere with development time, it is vital that technical issues […]
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Getting to know: Arthur Pawiroredjo, our new Test Engineer
October 12, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, Uncategorized
It’s always lovely to get a new member of the team. This time we’d like to welcome Arthur, who joined us last month as a Test Engineer. Over to him!
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Europe’s first VR testers to exhibit at Europe’s biggest VR event
October 5, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Game testing, Lessons in the trenches, Uncategorized, VR
VR Days Europe, Europe’s biggest virtual reality event, takes place in Amsterdam at the end of October, and we are going to be there, just like last year when we were a Silver Sponsor! On October 26th and 27th, some of the greatest VR creators will be exhibiting their content at the Kromhouthal, and spriteCloud […]
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Pioneering Appium with Ruby for Mobile Test Automation, Part 2: OSx software
October 3, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Automation, mobile testing, Ruby
It’s time for a follow-up to my previous post on pioneering with Appium a month ago. In this post I assembled the required software to do automated testing for Android on Windows. In this post I’ll describe the same process for Mac OSx.
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Testing in a Scrum team which uses the Gitflow workflow
September 21, 2017 / by Andy / Development, Lessons in the trenches, Team Work, Test Process, Uncategorized
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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spriteCloud supporting charities: Wopsie Topsie Kinderkamp
September 19, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
Charity – “an organization set up to provide help for those in need.” It sounds simple, but spriteCloud is more than testing alone. Recently spriteCloud heard about an organisation where one of the Spritey’s does volunteer work: the Wopsie Topsie Kinderkamp. In short, Wopsie Topsie Kinderkamp is a camp for children in the Velsen area […]
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