We are continuously striving to make the Silk Central experience better and each new version includes improved, better and new functionality. The table below highlights the differences and what you can expect from us in the near future.
All future release functionality is subject to change, should you require further information please contact us.
Silk Central supports a wide number of 3rd party integrations across Requirements Management, Test Automation, Defect Management and Source Control Systems. The following provides an overview of integration points:
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For full details of integrations provided with Silk Central please refer to product release notes on supportline.microfocus.com or contact your Borland Account Manager.
Silk Central has been built with integration in mind and adds significant value to the full suite of Borland products, allowing for a centralized view of your complete test cycle from requirements all the way through to test execution. The table shows the integration touch points between the products and level of interaction Silk Central provides to add value to the joint solutions.
| Area | Borland Product | Integration |
|---|---|---|
| Functional Automation | Silk Test Workbench | VBA.NET Scripting / Visual Scripting |
| Ability to pass parameters from Silk Central to Visual Scripts to drive execution | ||
| Full Visual Log Reports available from Silk Central | ||
| Supports Video Capture of execution (On-Error/Always) | ||
| Silk4J | Ability to pass parameters from Silk Central to drive execution | |
| Results and logs available from Silk Central | ||
| Maintenance from the IDE update in Silk Central | ||
| Video/Images On-Error/Always | ||
| Silk4NET | Ability to pass parameters from Silk Central to drive execution | |
| Results and logs available from Silk Central | ||
| Video/Images On-Error/Always | ||
| Silk Test Classic | Ability to pass parameters from Silk Central to drive execution | |
| Results and logs available from Silk Central | ||
| Planfile support with automatic update with each execution | ||
| Video/Images On-Error/Always | ||
| Performance Automation | Silk Performer | Execution and visibility of progress within Silk Central |
| Pass parameters | ||
| Results and logs available from Silk Central | ||
| X-LoadTest Report via Performance Explorer and results in Silk Central | ||
| Upload of Silk Performer projects out of Silk Performer to Silk Central | ||
| Requirements | Caliber RM | Integration of Requirements |
| Export of tests from Caliber RM to Silk Central | ||
| Change flagging within Silk Central | ||
| Caliber RDM | Integration of Requirements | |
| Visibility of Scenario Flow within Silk Central | ||
| Generation of tests within Silk Central from Caliber RDM Scenarios | ||
| Full visibility of attachments and attributes within Silk Central | ||
| Ability to Run Scenarios within Silk Central | ||
| Change flagging within Silk Central | ||
| Source Control and Defects | StarTeam | Source Control for Silk Performer / Silk Test Scripts |
| Version Control and Build Information availability | ||
| Defect Integration |
You can find more information about product integration and connectivity within the Silk Central product documentation.
The plug-ins below can be used to extend your Silk Central installation for test execution, source control, issue tracking and requirements management integration. Download the plug-ins to the Plugins folder of your Silk Central installation and restart the services. Please contact your account manager for further information and availability.
Use the HP QuickTestPro test type plug-in to execute your QuickTestPro tests from within Silk Central with all associated benefits like powerful result analysis and result trend information over time/build.
Version Supported: 10.0
Use the HP WinRunner test type plug-in to execute your WinRunner tests from within Silk Central with all associated benefits like powerful result analysis and result trend information over time/build.
Use the FitNesse test type plug-in to execute your FitNesse tests from within Silk Central with all associated benefits like powerful result analysis and result trend information over time/build.
Version Supported: 20070619, 20081201
Use the Seapine TestTrackPro Issue integration plug-in to comfortably create issues in Seapine TestTrackPro out of Silk Central.
Version Supported: Seapine TestTrackpro 2011.1.2
Use the MS Sharepoint source control plug-in to use all your test assets from within Silk Central with all associated benefits like scheduled execution of your tests together with powerful result analysis.
Contact us if you would like to receive more information on any of the plugins listed above.
Contact formAn integrated solution has been core to our modernization efforts by allowing us to ensure requirements are fully captured and fully tested. We depend on Micro Focus solutions to enable this capability
- Joel Levinson, MAXIMUS Canada CIO
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With our ALM solution, ideas can start as a change request in either StarTeam or CaliberRM, become a testable requirement in CaliberRM, get attached to test scripts in SilkCentral Test Manager, and then trace back to StarTeam for any resultant defects. This provides us with unparalleled clarity into our development and testing lifecycle.
– Emerson Sklar, System engineer, Invertix
Download Case StudySoftware organizations are under increased pressure to reduce costs while increasing the quality of applications being delivered to market. Key drivers that influence this pressure for better delivery of applications is the need for increased agility with a focus on reduction of risk. Along with this organizations are challenged with the need to deal with new technologies that only increase the complexity of the software being developed. This, compounded with the need to drive a more diverse resource skill set among employees creates a dynamic of challenges never before seen.
The good news for organizations facing these challenges is that there are tools available that make increased quality a reality. A recent reports stats quality in delivery of software projects is slowly increasing, and the 2010 Chaos Report attributes the increase in success directly to projects resolved through agile process, with current industry reports showing approximately 40% of projects are adopting an Agile Process.
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This supports organizations in their strategic approach to quality management rather than the tactical approach of quality assurance, and ensures that a smarter way of thinking delivers best practice outcome and an increase in centres of excellence (CoE) – including the activities of business analysts.
1 Standish Chaos Manifesto highlights 63% of projects do not succeed.
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Download the manifestoQuality organizations are under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, while being hit with new technologies and practices. Read more about the magic quadrant in our press release.
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DownloadThe name ‘agile development’ is perhaps slightly misleading as it is by its ber nature, a carefully structured environment of rigorous prodedures. Howerver, even within this context there is room for innovation within the testing sphere. This whitepaper gives a short introduction to how Borland Silk Central can be effectively deployed within an agile development environment.
Software teams have long struggled with requirements. Reaching an early consensus on how software should look and behave reduces the risk of unnecessary rework; developers have an accurate impression of what needs to be built and quality is jump-started early.
Because software lives at the core of virtually every business process, corporate performance in today’s competitive world is largely measured by the successful development, deployment and ongoing monitoring of high quality software applications
Continuous Quality Assurance is an efficient, business-centric alternative to traditional vendors’ ‘last minute’ methodologies.
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