HP Sprinter - Accelerating Manual Testing process

What is HP Sprinter
HP Sprinter is add-on tool for HP ALM, which is tightly integrated and accelerates manual testing process with various powerful options available.

This is good fit especially in Agile projects where there is manual testing is necessary.

HP Sprinter doesn't require separate license as it works with HP ALM login

Challenges Facing by Testers

Test design
•Create detail test cases takes time
•Parametrization and Data management for test cases is costly

Executing tests
•Significant time spent executing tests
•Following and executing test steps is challenging
•Repetitive test steps waste execution time
•Testing Multiple Environment
•Documentation

Defect remediation
•Bug descriptions are rarely complete
•Information needed to reconstruct the bug is often missing
•Significant time spent trying to recreate and figure out defects
•No history of user actions following exploratory testing

Benefits of using with HP Sprinter

Plan - Create manual tests and business components easily
Macros - we can speed up execution of repetitive Steps
Data Injection – Automate test data entry
Power Mode - Avoid working with multiple screens and tools
Annotation – Can create manual annotations
Exploratory Testing - keep a record and log of all the user actions you performed during your test and print and document while testing
Smart Defect - Accelerate defect remediation
Mirroring - Simultaneously test multiple environments
Traceability – Maintain traceability with ALM with execution log
Scanners – scans the application quickly and displays for broken links, spell checks, Web Standard issues

Limitations and Issues with HP Sprinter:

• Supports technologies only (Web, AtiveX,GWT,Silverlight,WPF,ASPAjax,Java,Web,YahooUI,Dojo,SAP,.Net,jQueryUI and Mobile)
• There is no option to update macros once it is recorded
• Application should be available to create manual test case
• No integration with automation tools (Like UFT). We have to closes UFT tool if it is already opened
• Tools hangs when we try to capture/record manual test case in Plan tab and also when we tries to log a defect from scanner