Silk Test 17.0Companies 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 OverviewHow Silk Test Can HelpMicro Focus® Silk Test™ is one of the most re-liable, efficient test automation solutions for functional and regression testing of any soft-ware 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.

Silk Test’s automation is effective for regres-sion, cross-platform, and localization testing. It works across all technologies including AJAX, web, mobile web, Java, .NET, client/server, ter-minal host, and SAP systems.

Mobile TestingOver the last couple of years, mobile appli-cation development has continually evolved. Now, the standard testing principles used for desktop and web application can also applied for testing mobile application. Silk Test sup-ports all the major mobile platforms, including iOS and Android so test teams can standardize

validation activities on a single solution, and avoid having multiple testing tools for the dif-ferent applications. Use Silk Test to perform tests on real devices as well as simulators/emulators, to ensure tests represent the genu-ine user experience.

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

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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• Keyword-driven testing for an easy collaboration

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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well as technical, like developers or testers, to seamlessly work together—whether it is a sim-ple unit test or a complex business workflow. Silk Test keeps test design separate from test implementation to enhance productivity and collaboration between users.

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.

Silk4NET is the pendant for .NET developers and integrates with Visual Studio. Silk Test pro-vides the same testing capabilities no matter which interface is chosen.

EASY, FULL SPECTRUM SUPPORT FOR WEB APPLICATIONSSilk Test supports all major web environments including Apache Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, and HTML/AJAX. It facilitates modern appli-cation 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 synchro-nization functions when using more complex scenarios with Java script.

CROSS-BROWSER TESTING FOR WEB APPLICATIONSCreate 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.

Figure 3. Role-based testing

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• 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 functionality

using externally stored data• Debugging and diagnostics of script actions 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 RequirementsHardware 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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CONFIGURATION TESTING IN THE CLOUDSilk4J and Silk Central™ Connect enable the testing of web applications on a wide range ofplatforms and browsers, including pre-config-ured structures within the Amazon Cloud.

RELIABLE AND ROBUST TEST AUTOMATIONSilk Test quickly automates complex business workflows, even those built using different technologies.

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 TESTINGSilk 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 CYCLESToday’s release cycles are increasingly short and automated test cycles are often run out of

hours. Silk Test’s execution is among the fast-est 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. borland.com/en-GB/Products/Software- Testing/Automated-Testing/Silk-Test/Product-Trial

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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

Figure 4. Support all major web environments

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