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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 […]

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. […]

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.

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.

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

eCommerce testing helps a lot during the holiday period

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 […]

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

(CI-CD) continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline

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 […]

Getting to know: Loes Besters, our newest Software Test Engineer

November 9, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Life at spriteCloud, News, Uncategorized

Loes Besters, Junior Software Test Engineer

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.

Complete Setup Guide for Ruby, Cucumber and Watir on Windows (2017)

November 7, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Automation, Cucumber, Ruby, Uncategorized, Watir

Set up Cucumber, Ruby and Waitr on Windows

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!

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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!

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

Sergiu, one of our VR testers, at work in our test lab

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

VR through ‘Charter-based’ exploratory testing

September 12, 2017 / by Sergiu Julinschi / Test Process, Tools, Uncategorized, VR

'Awesome Exploratory Testing Cycle' by Simon Tomes

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 […]

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!

Pioneering Appium with Ruby for Mobile Test Automation, Part 1: Required Software

September 4, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Automation, mobile testing, Ruby

Samsung Galaxy s5 used for mobile test automation

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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