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

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.

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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.

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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

Challenge

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:

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.

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 test 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 setup in natural language, making it ridiculously easy to setup, 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 extremely intelligent and can easily interpret high level instructions.

Instruction given to Spur: "Search for a property somewhere in the US"

Spur generated the following variations on different runs:

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.