Further strengthening our complement of incredible testers originally from Ukraine, is Inna. I think what makes Inna such a strong test engineer is her interest in continually developing her skills and her love of trying new things. This combined with her strong work ethic means that her addition is going to make almost any team …
In this latest “Getting to Know Us” post we talk to one of our new QA engineers, Bozena. Bozena is a woman of many interests and talents. This makes her a joy to work with and a fun person to have on during our weekly Friday afternoon tech talks and social drinks. She also takes …
Updated: 5th March 2021 Here are our recommendations for platforms, operating systems and browsers to use when testing commercial web sites targeting consumers in Europe. Our recommendations are based on usage figures widely available on the Internet, our experience and our analysis of customer needs. Since versions change frequently, we review and update these recommendations …
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We’ve been very fortunate at spriteCloud to hire a lot of great interns to assist in the development of our SaaS product Calliope Pro. We don’t know if it’s just Gijs’ management skills or if there is something in the water at these schools, but we suspect its Gijs and the raw talent of our …
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A few months ago we were lucky enough to have Max join spriteCloud as a Test Engineer. It’s incredible how someone so young and fresh-faced comes with a ton of digital agency side functional testing experience. Aside from Max’s experience and high level of taking ownership of projects, he is also just a great person …
A few months ago we announced that Justin Leavenworth would be heading up the cybersecurity arm of spriteCloud. After some time to settle in, Justin is now actively working with clients to provide vulnerability scanning and penetration testing solutions to their organisation. Justin is also working with organisations that traditionally weren’t so concerned with cybersecurity …
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Test Automation Tools: Xamarin For more reviews of Test Automation Tools and Frameworks, head to our main topic page. Mobile Test Automation using Xamarin.UITest The mobile test automation scene is growing fast and when it comes to a single environment for mobile app development that also allows for easy test automation, Xamarin certainly is a …
Salesforce is a popular customer relationship management (CRM) application and ecosystem that has grown rapidly in market share and maturity over the last ten years or so. Salesforce’s CRM offering and its accompanying customer service, marketing automation, and application development features have made it an incredibly popular choice for enterprise-level organisations. As with any complex, …
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We are happy to announce that spriteCloud has been nominated for Computable.nl’s Service Award for 2020. It is always an honour to be recognised for our contribution to the software development and quality assurance world, and to also be included with organistions of this calibre. Even if we don’t win the award, this nomination tells …
We recently learned that spriteCloud made it on Deloitte’s prestigious Fast 500 list! We are very happy about that fact. We ranked number 473 on the Technology Fast 500 list for EMEA with growth of 177%. This list is a ranking of the fasted growing technology companies in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. …
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After a successful 18 months of offering cybersecurity and penetration testing services, spriteCloud has appointed a dedicated managing director to further grow the cybersecurity services arm of the company. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – August 3, 2020 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam-based quality assurance testing and cybersecurity services provider, is announcing the appointment of Justin Leavenworth …
Introduction Hi Again, In this post we would like to explain a bit more about the mobile test automation that we are using here at spriteCloud. The past years we have seen that the mix of cucumber with selenium webdriver has been extremely powerful. This setup allows for test automation that is, besides easy to …
Introduction In the test automation world, the client often requests to run the tests on mobile devices, next to doing the testing on regular desktop. When running your automation in Cucumber, you have multiple possibilities to solve this. In this article I will talk about these possibilities and a new (simple) way to do it …
Mobile Website Test Automation with Cucumber but without the hassle Read More »
While test automation is very useful, sometimes a requirement to maintain good quality, there are several challenges new teams face. This post summarizes some of the major problems.
Our favourite test automation software in the world still remains Cucumber and its Gherkin syntax, but like all software, it has its limitations. In particular, at first glance it is pretty difficult to express workflows in Cucumber that contain branches. In this post, we explain how that can be achieved. Table of Contents The Problem …
When you want to send tidy and attractive emails for marketing or other purposes you quickly come across the common solution of using HTML, and CSS code within emails. In this post we will show you a code snippet that allows you to send HTML emails using pyhton libraries. However, before we start you should …
Updated on: 13 May 2020 Software testing on Android can be a little more tedious than testing other mobile operating systems like iOS. Android does not force operating system updates on users like Apple, causing the percentage of Android version users to be quite diverse. For a software tester, these means research needs to be …
Due to the unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus across the globe, many organisations were forced to adopt remote working and virtual conferencing solutions to stop their activities from grinding to a complete halt. The most widely known of these tools, due to its most recent media coverage, is Zoom. At the time of publishing …
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Welcome to our Testing Titans interview series! Our interviews are meant to bring attention to the unsung heroes of the software development world, Software Testers. Our goal is to raise awareness of software testing by conducting in-depth interviews with thought leaders and conference speakers working in QA, test automation, and cybersecurity. Check-in regularly with this …
COVID-19 has brought drastic changes to the way people work almost overnight. The most visible change is the move away from offices to remote locations, which typically is a person’s own home. In fact, the WFH (Working From Home) update on a person’s online social spaces is the new normal. A person who is not WFH is …
