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Press Release: spriteCloud Launches Subscription-Based Software Testing Services

January 9, 2020 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

Software Testing Subscription simplifies testing.

New monthly subscription service aims to make software quality assurance more consistent and affordable in the face of ever quicker software release cycles. Amsterdam, The Netherlands – January 2nd, 2020 – spriteCloud B.V., an Amsterdam based software testing and cybersecurity services provider, announces the launch of a Software Testing Subscription service. The new subscription model …

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Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations (December 2019)

November 29, 2019 July 30, 2020 / By MRC / Platforms, OS, and Browser Recommendations

Introduction The following post updates 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 client needs. Since browser versions change frequently, we review and update these recommendations …

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Testing Titans: Bas Dijkstra, test automation trainer and consultant

November 22, 2019 June 29, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Titans Interviews

Welcome to Testing Titans! Consider this the first in a series of many in-depth interviews with movers and shakers in the software testing and quality assurance industry. The goal behind these interviews and, the series as a whole, is to lift the veil on the software testing world and shine a light on the concepts, …

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Getting to know us: Justin Kruisdijk, our new Business Development Manager

November 4, 2019 June 26, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud

He’s tall, he’s friendly, he’s Dutch, and he’s a Feyenoord fan. We won’t hold it against you, Justin. All jokes aside though, we’re happy to welcome Justin as the newest member of the spriteCloud family and the newest addition to our Business Development team. Tell us about yourself. Hi! My name is Justin Kruisdijk. I …

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Dutch site’s zero-day hack: a lesson in vulnerability scanning

November 1, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Cybersecurity

The hack of the Dutch site, hookers.nl, provides a valuable lesson on cybersecurity.

Last month (at the time of writing this post), a Dutch website was hacked. This was not just any website. It was a forum used by, among others, employees of Dutch governmental institutions like law enforcement, foreign affairs and the ministry of defence. Normally such a breach would simply mean that users of the affected …

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FD Gazellen 2019, another award on the shelf!

October 25, 2019 June 26, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / News and PR

Great news! For the fifth time, spriteCloud joins roughly 700 other businesses in the Netherlands in being awarded the FD Gazellen by Het Financieele Dagblad (The Financial Daily Paper). The FD Gazellen is an award given to the fastest-growing companies of the year. Not only is revenue an assessment criteria but also growth in full-time …

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Getting to know us: Marianne Uhl, our new Test Automation Engineer Intern

October 11, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Life at spriteCloud

It’s been about half a year since our last intern Robin left us and in that period we started to miss the youthful energy that comes with working with an impressionable student who is eager to learn. We were fortunate enough to be able to bring Marianne on board, who is not only a quick …

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LambdaTest cross-browser testing results in Calliope.pro

September 13, 2019 January 5, 2021 / By Travis Hatridge / Testing Tools and Languages

spriteCloud’s Calliope.pro and LambdaTest team up to deliver functional testing results. What this means is that we have identified LambdaTest as an excellent solution for cross-browser functional testing in the cloud and recommend it to clients as our preferred Functional Testing Partner. This also means that LambdaTest has also seen great potential in Calliope.pro as …

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DevOps Security: Secrets from the Trenches

September 2, 2019 July 30, 2020 / By spriteCloud / Cybersecurity

Like a castle, DevOps security is meant to secure your development.

Image source: Pexels Software development is occurring faster and deployment is becoming more complex every day, and security vulnerabilities and threats are mirroring this process. This means that security can no longer be treated as an add-on if you want to ensure that your applications are reliable and that you and your customers’ data is …

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Test Automation Tools: TestCafe

August 29, 2019 November 16, 2020 / By spriteCloud / Testing Tools and Languages

For more reviews of Test Automation Tools and Frameworks, head to our main topic page. I recently wrote a blog post on Cypress.io as a non-Selenium-based automation tool using the JavaScript test framework running on and in the browser. Today, I will review another awesome non-Selenium JavaScript E2E (End-to-End) testing framework which is now one …

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Test automation: Benefits and Drawbacks

August 19, 2019 July 2, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Automation

Like many processes, test automation is a coin with two sides to it. When done correctly, test automation can significantly increase your development team’s performance and test coverage. On the other hand, test automation can also be difficult to implement, maintain, and stay on budget. This is especially the case with an inexperienced team and …

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Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations (August 2019)

August 6, 2019 July 30, 2020 / By MRC / Platforms, OS, and Browser Recommendations

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spriteCloud 10 Year Anniversary

July 31, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By spriteCloud / News and PR

Today marks the ten-year anniversary of spriteCloud wading into the murky waters of software testing and learning to swim with the big boys. Today we celebrate ten years of software testing excellence, ten years of building a name in the industry, and ten years of building a family. If this were a marriage, the appropriate …

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Test Automation Tools: Cypress.io

June 6, 2019 November 16, 2020 / By spriteCloud / Testing Tools and Languages

For more reviews of Test Automation Tools and Frameworks (like Cypress.io), head to our main Automation topic page. For more reviews of Test Automation Tools, check out our other demos. Detox review TestCafe review Xamarin review Testing is one of the most critical processes in modern application development, as the success or failure of the …

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The difference between manual testing and test automation

May 29, 2019 July 2, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Automation

While the differences between these two forms of testing is pretty obvious by their names, manual and automated. While it seems clear, it is important to give a fuller explanation to these two different yet inexorably connected forms of tests. If you have spent as much time reading, working, and thinking about test automation as …

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Hiring contractors vs permanent employees in the tech industry

April 18, 2019 January 5, 2021 / By spriteCloud / Testing Methods and Experience

Hiring contractors vs permanent employees for tech.

The job market is much different from it was ten years ago. This is especially true in the tech industry (IT and software development). As work in general and work particularly in the tech industry continues to move to contract- and project-based ways of working, evaluating whether hiring a contractor or a permanent employee becomes …

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Test automation in continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)

April 12, 2019 September 30, 2020 / By spriteCloud / Automation

Why continuous delivery? A key thing to be able to compete in the market is to be able to build new products and services faster than other companies. That’s why the usage of Agile and DevOps is increasing. Software products need to be released on the shortest cycles possible. This need for fast development cycles …

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Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations (April 2019)

April 5, 2019 July 30, 2020 / By MRC / Platforms, OS, and Browser Recommendations

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Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Scanning: what’s the difference?

March 29, 2019 July 3, 2020 / By Travis Hatridge / Cybersecurity

There is a considerable amount of confusion in the security testing industry regarding penetration testing. This confusion mainly revolves around understanding the differences between what is penetration testing and vulnerability scanning. Despite the two services being quite different, they are equally vital for evaluating and maintaining an organisation’s security posture. This situation has come about …

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