August 3, 2017 / by Rebecca Hogg / News, Uncategorized
This week, I came across a TED talk from TEDxDelft 2015 by Andy Zaidman, a software engineer, who posed an interesting concept: “Making testing fun.” In his talk, he acknowledged something that those in software testing will know too well: generally, testing is an undervalued yet incredibly important part of development. I’ve been working at […]
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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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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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VR through ‘Charter-based’ exploratory testing
September 12, 2017 / by Sergiu Julinschi / Test Process, Tools, Uncategorized, VR
Virtual Reality applications – both those that are built for VR and those that only have VR features enabled – are a type of software that can be characterized by a high degree of interactivity, with many components and systems. From the ‘simple’ type of VR experience – such as consuming various types of media […]
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Getting to know Martin de Haan, our new Test Engineer
September 6, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
Along with a new intern, we also welcomed a new Test Engineer to our team in August. Martin gave a presentation about himself and his history at our monthly company meeting, so it’s high time that he introduced himself to you!
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Pioneering Appium with Ruby for Mobile Test Automation, Part 1: Required Software
September 4, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Automation, mobile testing, Ruby
Appium is a single link in the chain called ‘mobile test automation’. Yet it has much attention focused on it. I’ve got it to work with my old Samsung Galaxy S4 phone (below). Interested?
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Get to know Maurice Wijnia, our new Test Automation Engineer Intern
September 1, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized
Help us welcome a new member of the spriteCloud team: Maurice Wijnia! Maurice joined us this week as our new Test Automation Engineer Intern. Our Marketing Intern, Beki, is particularly thrilled, as she is no longer the one who fetches the coffee for everyone, makes photocopies, or polishes our CEO Andy’s shoes. (Joke! We fetch […]
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spriteCloud selected as a member of the Fast Growth Icons Amsterdam Network 2017
August 30, 2017 / by andy / News, Publicity, Uncategorized
We have been selected as a member of the Fast Growth Icons Amsterdam Network, an invitation-only network for well-established, fast-growing businesses. The network brings together the founders and CEOs of later-stage startups to discuss the practical realities of building a $100m+ revenue business. Reflecting our success and rapid growth, we are immensely proud to be […]
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How to write Gherkin scripts – A straightforward example
August 23, 2017 / by Gijs Paulides / Cucumber, gherkin, Uncategorized
Today I will take you through step-by-step how to successfully write and execute durable test scenarios using the Gherkin syntax, using the payment pathway of an e-commerce website as a straightforward example. Gherkin is a plain-text, business-readable language that is designed to be easily understandable by non-programmers. It is most commonly used to define regression […]
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Which Android versions should I test on?
August 15, 2017 / by andy / Android, Test Environments, Tools
In the last Android statistics blog, I made the prediction that Android 7 would really take a larger market share. Obviously that was to be expected. We have seen Android 7 Nougat grow from 7.1% to 13.5% this month. It is not hard to predict that by November, Android Nougat will have reached a solid […]
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Getting started with test automation: Cucumber with Lapis Lazuli
August 8, 2017 / by barzilay / Uncategorized
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 […]
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Make software testing fun again
August 3, 2017 / by Rebecca Hogg / News, Uncategorized
This week, I came across a TED talk from TEDxDelft 2015 by Andy Zaidman, a software engineer, who posed an interesting concept: “Making testing fun.” In his talk, he acknowledged something that those in software testing will know too well: generally, testing is an undervalued yet incredibly important part of development. I’ve been working at […]
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