Silk Test 17.0

Data Sheet
Silk Test 17.0
Silk Test 17.0
Companies face many challenges when designing successful testing strategies for their applications.
Incomplete or flawed test data from inaccurate testing can cause application failure and widespread
disruption. Building test environments can be labor-intensive, expensive and do not guarantee success, but
companies compromising on testing risk losing customers, market share–and damaging their reputations.
Product Overview
How Silk Test Can Help
Micro Focus® Silk Test™ is one of the most re­
liable, efficient test automation solutions for
functional and regression testing of any software application. The ability to create automated
tests without coding enables software testers
to keep up with the pace of development, and
developers to create tests in their choice of IDE.
validation activities on a single solution, and
avoid having multiple testing tools for the different applications. Use Silk Test to perform
tests on real devices as well as simulators/
emulators, to ensure tests represent the genuine user experience.
Silk Test’s automation is effective for regression, cross-platform, and localization testing. It
works across all technologies including AJAX,
web, mobile web, Java, .NET, client/server, terminal host, and SAP systems.
Mobile Testing
Over the last couple of years, mobile application development has continually evolved.
Now, the standard testing principles used for
desktop and web application can also applied
for testing mobile application. Silk Test supports all the major mobile platforms, including
iOS and Android so test teams can standardize
Key Benefits
• Reduces R&D costs. Minimizes test and fix
cycles while optimizing costly resources.
• Improves ROI. Greater access to test creation
and execution for more team members and
­collaboration in the quality process.
• Helps leverage current investments. Reduces
­investment in multiple tools and training and
­ensures confidence as technologies change.
• Quick user adoption. Easy-to-use role-based
automation interfaces
Feature Overview
FACILITATE BUSINESS AND TECHNICAL
STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION
Functional testing must capture every aspect
of your application. Keyword-driven testing
enables business focused stakeholders, such
as business analysts and domain experts, as
• Keyword-driven testing for an easy c­ ollaboration
between technical and non-technical users
• Support for AJAX/Flex, web, mobile web, Java,
.NET, client/server, and host systems
• Leading cross-browser testing capabilities to
ensure productive web-testing
• Mobile testing for Android and iOS
• Custom control support for libraries i­ncluding
DevExpress and Infragistics
• Support for green screen and terminal server
­applications through Micro Focus Rumba
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Data Sheet
Silk Test 17.0
well as technical, like developers or testers, to
seamlessly work together—whether it is a simple unit test or a complex business workflow.
Silk Test keeps test design separate from test
implementation to enhance productivity and
collaboration between users.
Silk4NET is the pendant for .NET developers
and integrates with Visual Studio. Silk Test provides the same testing capabilities no matter
which interface is chosen.
EASY, FULL SPECTRUM SUPPORT
FOR WEB APPLICATIONS
Silk Test supports all major web environments
including Apache Flex, Microsoft Silverlight,
and HTML/AJAX. It facilitates modern application testing by supporting synchronization
modes for HTML or AJAX. Simple web pages
can be tested with HTML mode. AJAX mode
eliminates the need to manually script synchronization functions when using more complex
scenarios with Java script.
INCLUDE ALL USERS IN THE TESTING­
­PROCESS, REGARDLESS OF SKILL-SET
Silk Test has the right interface for any user
type. The Visual Testing interface of the Silk
Test Workbench is the ideal starting point for
business-focused people who don’t want to
write code to test their application. Silk4J is an
Eclipse plugin that allows Java developers the
create tests using their daily used environment
and leverage all the capabilities of an IDE.
Figure 3. Role-based testing
CROSS-BROWSER TESTING FOR
WEB APPLICATIONS
Create a single test script in Silk Test to test
against Internet Explorer, Edge, Firefox, Chrome,
Safari and mobile browsers. This removes the
need to build separate test logic for handling
different browser types or version behavior, and
makes test scripts easier to maintain. While test
case logic remains focused on the use case,
test development time can be cut by up to
80 percent.
Feature Overview continued
• Visual testing and scenario-based workflow for
instant productivity
• Embedded Visual Basic .NET scripting language
for advanced test case scenarios
• Silk4J Eclipse plug-in for Java developers
• Silk4NET Microsoft Visual Studio plug-in for
.Net developers
• ActiveData for testing business logic f­ unctionality
using externally stored data
• Debugging and diagnostics of script a­ ctions from
the end-user perspective
• Support for local and remote test execution
­spanning multiple machines
• Integration with Micro Focus Silk Central Test
Manager for advanced, process-oriented test
­management and issue tracking
• Integration with Micro Focus Silk Central Connect
for configuration testing in the Cloud
System Requirements
Hardware and Software Requirements
• Microsoft Windows Server (2008, 2008 R2, 2012,
2012 R2)
• Microsoft Windows (XP SP3, Vista SP 2, 7, 7 SP1,
8, 8.1, 10)
• Visual Studio 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015
Supported Environments
• Browser technologies
– AJAX (ExtJS, jQuery), HTML5, DHTML
• Web browsers
– Internet Explorer, Edge, Firefox, Safari (on Mac)
– Mobile browsers on iOS and Android
• Rich internet applications
– Apache Flex, Adobe Air
– Silverlight
– Java Applets
– Oracle Forms (IE only)
• Mobile platforms
– iOS
– Android
• Java based applications (32 and 64 bit)
– SWT Standalone and Rich Client Platform (RCP)
applications
– AWT/Swing
• .NET based applications (32 and 64 bit)
– Microsoft WinForms (incl. 3rd party UI
frameworks)
– Microsoft WPF (incl. 3rd party UI frameworks)
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Silk Test offers unique features, like reporting
and application states, for running tests in an
unattended 24/7 mode. Any errors are logged
and the application is restored to its original
base state.
AGILE AND SHIFT-LEFT TESTING
Figure 4. Support all major web environments
CONFIGURATION TESTING IN THE CLOUD
Silk4J and Silk Central™ Connect enable the
testing of web applications on a wide range
ofplatforms and browsers, including pre-configured structures within the Amazon Cloud.
RELIABLE AND ROBUST TEST AUTOMATION
Silk Test quickly automates complex business
workflows, even those built using different
technologies.
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Silk Test offers easy-to-use, code free testing,
with built-in workflow and logic wizards. Create,
customize, and execute tests with Silk Test’s
intuitive interface, or leverage the Eclipse IDE
or Visual Studio—regardless of whether you are
at the beginning of the product development
lifecycle, or before the application is even built.
There is comprehensive support for web, Java,
and .Net. Test cases can be reused in different
environments and scenarios without changing
test scripts.
SUPPORT FOR RAPID RELEASE CYCLES
Today’s release cycles are increasingly short
and automated test cycles are often run out of
System Requirements continued
Native Windows Applications (32 and 64 bit)
• Enterprise applications
– SAP (SAPGUI) and eCATT integration
– Oracle Forms
– Terminal Host Systems and Green screen
­applications via Micro Focus Rumba
For version details please check the current
release notes
hours. Silk Test’s execution is among the fastest in the industry, with optimizations based on
native implementation of search algorithms
and complex caching mechanisms. No longer
make trade-offs between quality, feature-set
and time.
Why not try Silk Test for free to discover how
it can improve your testing? Try now at: www.
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