1. HP Sprinter
Exploratory Manual Testing
Ray Tomany – rayt@hp.com

2. Manual Testing today has to be modernized
Manual testing today is tedious, error prone and time consuming
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testing
 Working with multiple screens and tools
 Manual Annotation
 No traceability
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3. Accurate Data Challenge
Data
Test
Valid Sets Time Consuming and
Data
Tedious activity in
Manual Testing
Invalid
Data
Under Test

4. The Defect Ping-Pong
Battle
– Lack of useful information captured
– Poorly illustrated screen shots
– Difficulty in explaining how to reproduce
error
Wasting Developers and in turn Testers
time

5. The Manual Test.
2000 2010
TestDirector 7.0i, Quality Center 10,
Manual Test Manual Test
5 HP Confidential

6. 2012 – HP Sprinter.

7. Smart Tabs to Maximize Screen Real
Estate
Smart Tabs
Review test available on
steps on the AUT screen
AUT screen
Easy to use, unobtrusive
and maximizes application
under test (AUT) real
estate

8. Exploratory Testing - Auto Documentation
Automatically Log all
user actions
performed during test
Automatically
record user actions
in a textual
description Improve communication
of user actions and
Facilitates exploratory
testing

9. Simplify and Improve Defect
Communication with Screen Annotation
Measure application
Smart elements
- color, position, alignment
Annotation
Smart Annotation
capabilities
accessible on the
AUT screen
Accelerate and simplify
annotation and improve
defect communication

10. Minimize Repetitive and Tedious Work with
Auto Data Injection
Minimize repetitive steps
Automatically
insert data into
the application

11. Minimize Repetitive Tests and Save Time
with Mirror Testing Test on multiple
environments at
the same time
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12. Story Board
Snapshot of all executed
steps

13. What our customers say about HP
Sprinter…
http://www.techvalidate.com/portals/hp-sprinter
More information:
www.hp.com/go/Sprinter

14. HP Sprinter for
Manual Testing