# How Spur helped Wander ship 4x faster

A conversation with  
  
**Sneha Sivakumar**  
CEO of Spur

- **Company**  
  A modern travel platform that pairs the comfort of private vacation homes with luxury-hotel-grade amenities and 24/7 concierge service  
- **Industry**  
  B2C Travel  
- **Company Size**  
  200  
- **Founded**  
  2021

Spur - Wander Case Study from Sneha Sivakumar on Vimeo

### Challenge
  
For a luxury travel platform, bugs can devastate customer experience. Wander faced an impossible testing matrix:

- **Massive Search Combinations**: 50+ filters across 50+ locations created millions of possible scenarios
- **AI-Powered Search**: Natural language queries needed reliable property matches
- **Intelligent Assistant**: Their AI concierge Ava required testing across countless conversation paths

Manual testing couldn't scale, and traditional automation tools weren't built for AI. Wander needed a _smarter_ solution.

### Solution

Wander used Spur’s AI-powered browser agents to replace manual and brittle QA with intelligent, natural-language tests that adapt to UI and AI-driven flows. Within weeks, they achieved 80%+ coverage and ran hundreds of tests daily across search, booking, and AI interactions. QA cycles dropped from days to minutes, enabling a 20× increase in release velocity while catching critical bugs before production.

### Results

50x the one-person QA team, to run thousands of regression tests daily

- **$750K**  
  Annual QA Spend Avoided with Spur
- **$10M+**  
  Revenue at Risk Bugs Now Caught Pre‑Prod
- **5X**  
  Revenue at Risk Bugs Now Caught Pre‑Prod

> Spur has significantly improved Wander’s testing capabilities. It has allowed us to iterate & ship so much faster with confidence!

**Nathan Potter**  
CTO, Wander.com

### Testing at Scale: From Simple Searches to AI Interactions

For a luxury travel platform, bugs can devastate customer experience. Wander faced an impossible testing matrix:

Manual testing couldn't scale, and traditional automation tools weren't built for AI. Wander needed a _smarter_ solution.

### Spur: The Intelligent Solution Powering Scalable QA for Wander

### Ship faster with confidence

> Spur really allowed us to streamline the testing process and keep up with the pace of the product changes that we are shipping  
> *Nathan Potter, CTO*

With Spur, Wander has been able to perform major iterations on their search experience and product as a whole. With each change, there are hundreds tests cases running to back it up. Since Spur uses Web Agents in the background, tests are resilient to UI changes and can adapt to new user flows automatically — without any maintenance.

> Writing Spur tests is more than a 10X faster experience than traditional automation with Cypress.
> *Maxwell Iheagwara, Lead QA Engineer*

Within the first week of using Spur, Maxwell, the Head QA Engineer, wrote over 150+ tests for Wander. Within the first month, Wander achieved over **80% test coverage**, running over **500+ tests daily**. Tests are all set up in natural language, making it ridiculously easy to set up, scale, and maintain them.

### Non-deterministic testing

> Spur's ability to write and execute dynamic test cases for our AI search was game-changing. Each test run uses different search prompts - from 'properties in California' to 'beachfront homes in NYC' - and verifies the accuracy of results automatically.
> *Maxwell Iheagwara, Lead QA Engineer*

Spur uses AI web navigation agents that emulate real human users to execute tests. The agents are intelligent and can easily interpret high-level instructions.

**Instruction given to Spur**: " _Search for a property somewhere in the US_ "

### Intelligent Testing: Tailored to Use-Case

> Testing with Spur has been really interesting because we're now able to use sentiment analysis to validate results. With regular testing tools, you just have to check if something works or doesn't work. But Spur actually understands what it's testing.
> *Nathan Potter, CTO*

This intelligent validation proved invaluable while testing their AI assistant, Ava. Spur helped Wander uncover a **critical** bug in their user flow. Their AI assistant Ava was incorrectly flagging legitimate travel queries as spam, preventing users from booking accommodations. Spur's ability to simulate natural conversations made testing and automating their AI interaction flows possible.

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