Purple Paper: Contextualising Agile Development Methodologies By Team Arrk BlogsThought Leadership 2 mins read During the discovery phase of any software development project here at Arrk Group, the team involved asks itself a standard series of questions, aimed at determining the best Agile methodology to adopt. There are numerous Agile methodologies which can be used…
Using Selenium to automate browser testing By Team Arrk BlogsThought Leadership 4 mins read At Arrk Group we use a variety of tools to assist the team when testing web-based applications. One such tool, or more specifically a suite of tools, is Selenium. We aren’t alone in using it either, thanks to it being open…
A Guide to Usability Testing Success By Team Arrk BlogsThought Leadership 8 mins read It is often said that usability testing is a necessary evil of software development, it is said by some to disrupt the development process whereas others find it takes too much work to properly instigate. What is often forgotten is that…
Premium Credit is owned by Cinven, a leading international private equity firm. Cinven has extensive experience acquiring successful companies and helping them grow and develop. Arrk Group helped increase Premium Credit’s competitiveness by designing, building and deploying a large-scale, secure digital customer acquisition platform. The highly scalable digital platform has reduced the time taken to process…
Prototyping IoT To Link Bookings With Meeting Room Door By Team Arrk BlogsThought Leadership 4 mins read At Arrk Group we place a great deal of emphasis on team-driven research and development, through our SpArrk Community programme. The Internet of Things, or IoT, is one such area where we engage with our communities to develop…
Arrk Group has helped the National Union of Students, a not-for-profit organisation, enhance its student union membership experience with the development and launch of UnionCloud, its award-winning cloud-based membership management platform. The digital platform, awarded The Times’ Higher Education Awards ICT Initiative of the Year in 2013, provides all the functions a student union requires to operate,…
A guide to submitting iOS apps to iTunes By Team Arrk BlogsMobile ApplicationThought Leadership 2 mins read While authoring an application for the iOS platform is relatively straightforward and can incorporate the use of a variety of web-based skills, such as HTML or JavaScript, combined with a third party framework such as Titanium or Phonegap.…
Our Journey into Scrumban By Team Arrk BlogsThought Leadership 5 mins read Here at Arrk Group we have adopted Scrumban methodologies over Scrum and other alternative development methodologies. Let’s take a look why we did, what we did and importantly what have been the benefits. Scrum and Kanban Since Agile was first conceived, many development…
Thirteen Great Ways to make your Offshore Project Fail | White Paper By Team Arrk AI Powered Market IntelligenceBlogsThought Leadership 3 mins read Way back in 2003, Arrk Group’s Executive Chairman Julian Howison was quoted in Computer Weekly (a June 24th article concerning the future impact of offshore on UK IT Services market) saying that…
White Paper | The 7 Deadly Web Application Security Sins By Team Arrk BlogsThought LeadershipWeb Application 2 mins read The devil makes work for idle hands – or so the saying goes. Nowadays however, getting ‘hacked’ has become far more than being infiltrated by a bored bedroom geek. Indeed, cyber crime is now such big…
