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Silk Central™
Silk Central

Silk Central 12.1 released

  • New cutting-edge, installation-free manual test interface
  • New Testbook dashboard – real time messaging for manual test activities
  • New client data segregation – support all your customers in a central hub
  • New custom reporting – with MS Word template

Silk Central

  • Powerful, open software test management for agile and traditional development projects
  • Connect tools and processes for control over what, how, when, who, and where to test
  • Clear go/no-go decisions
  • Align quality goals with requirements and testing with real-time visibility and tracking

Silk Central Videos

Featured video: Silk Central Introduction

A one minute overview video of Silk Central, Borland’s test management solution.

Silk Central walkthrough

A five minute walk-through showing the idea behind Silk Central and giving an overview of the UI.

Silk Central New Manual Test Execution

A preview of the updated manual test execution.

How to videos

Featured video: Silk Central Overview

A 'walk through' the manual execution planning user interface and a quick review of all the manual execution planning videos in the series.

Create a Silk Central project with automatic Issue Manager setup

Create a Silk Central project with automatic Issue Manager setupCreate a Silk Central project and automatically configure Issue Manager, with auto inbox creation.

Manual test execution

Silk Central – Manual test executionManual testing, direct from your dashboard. Silk Central 12.1 is enabled with new manual test interface.

System administration and client setup

System administration and client setupAccess and use the new System Administration area and configure your clients.

Custom reporting with MS Word

Silk Central – Custom reporting with MS WordUse the MS Word Template for custom reporting.

Silk Mobile integration with Silk Central and Silk4J

Integration with Silk Central and Silk4JGain insight into Silk Mobile automation from functional visual scripting through to advanced mobile scripting in Silk4J – understand how you can then incorporate this into you test process through test management with Silk Central.

Create Test Cycles and Add Manual Tests

Silk Central - Create Test Cycles and Add Manual TestsA 'how to' for test managers. Create (manual) testing cycles in a specified time period with available manual tester resources.

Selecting and Assigning Tests

This video explains test managers how to select manual tests based on quality goals and plan them for a specific testing cycle.

Distributing, Moving and Removing Tests

Distributing, Moving and Removing TestsThis video explains test managers how the planned tests can be distributed amongst the manual testers of a specific testing cycle. This includes also moving tests around between testers and removing tests from a testing cycle.

Executing Tests

Silk Central – Executing TestsThis video explains manual testers their benefits of the manual execution planning area and how they gain productivity by using the new personal dashboard.