July 4, 2017 / by Travis Hatridge / Lessons in the trenches, News, Publicity, QA Culture, QA Value, Recruitment, Team Work, Test Process
This week, Hozan Said, our new Business Development Manager, talks about his impression of spriteCloud’s working culture. I joined spriteCloud at the beginning of June and my first impression was really positive. The team wanted to make me feel at home. During the day, the CEO and COO and my new colleagues asked me several […]
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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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The new way of testing
July 4, 2017 / by Travis Hatridge / Lessons in the trenches, News, Publicity, QA Culture, QA Value, Recruitment, Team Work, Test Process
This week, Hozan Said, our new Business Development Manager, talks about his impression of spriteCloud’s working culture. I joined spriteCloud at the beginning of June and my first impression was really positive. The team wanted to make me feel at home. During the day, the CEO and COO and my new colleagues asked me several […]
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An internship at spriteCloud
June 27, 2017 / by spriteCloud / Publicity, QA Culture, Recruitment, Team Work
We’re hearing from spriteCloud’s Commercial team again this week. Our new Marketing Intern, Rebecca Hogg, talks about what she has learned in her first month. Learning the value of software testing When I joined spriteCloud a little under one month ago, I was a total beginner when it came to software testing. The concept is […]
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What is the benefit of Scrum Master certification to a Software Tester?
January 12, 2016 / by Andy / Development, Domain Expertise, Lessons in the trenches, QA Culture, QA Value, Team Work, Test Process
Recently, I passed the Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) certification on Scrum.org. Reading the Scrum guide made me wonder: What is the benefit of doing the PSM I certification to a tester? Testers do not have a specified role in a Scrum team, they are just one of the guys/girls developing. But most functional […]
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Why call it Calliope?
May 29, 2015 / by MRC / Automation, Publicity, Team Work, Tools
sC: Mike, you named our test automation product spriteCloud Calliope and you titled the introductory article “The Muse that Helps Your Test Suites Tell Their Stories”. What’s that all about? Mike Feord: Well, Calliope is the muse of epic poetry and story-telling. The Calliope is a steam-driven organ, and the first industrial machine to play […]
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Agile Software Design
February 3, 2015 / by Mark Barzilay / Automation, Development, Domain Expertise, Lessons in the trenches, QA Value, Team Work
In Agile development, Big Design Up Front (BDUF) is considered an anti-pattern. As with any pattern and anti-pattern, people — engineers in particular — have a tendency to treat them as rules, as laws that Shall Not Be Broken (TM). The unfortunate side-effect can be that in teams where that mode of thinking prevails, any […]
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How to Report a Bug
December 3, 2014 / by Mark Barzilay / Lessons in the trenches, Team Work, Test Process
Let’s start with how not to do it. So how do you report a bug?
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Is SCRUM Agile?
April 23, 2014 / by Mark Barzilay / QA Culture, Team Work, Test Process
Most people would agree that the answer to this question is “yes”. And I’d count myself amongst one of those people. However, I’ve witnessed and participated in a lot of projects that use SCRUM, but failed with exactly the issues that Agile wants to avoid. How is that possible?
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Software Lifecycle Consultancy
June 29, 2011 / by Mark Barzilay / News, QA Value, Team Work, Test Process
It feels like ages that I blogged about the place of QA in software development. Granted, in internet years, it has been a while. But the topic never seems to quite go away. Since I wrote that other blog post, a lot of things have happened here at spriteCloud. In the meantime, we’ve been involved […]
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Cucumber Testing in Cross-Functional Teams
August 8, 2010 / by Mark Barzilay / Cucumber, QA Culture, Team Work
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. BDD is slightly different from other test methodologies in that it’s designed to be used in cross-functional teams. In this post I will briefly touch on these differences, and then […]
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