Advanced Scripting

Perform advanced test scripting by exporting your test scripts to Borland's Silk4j, Silk4Net, jUnit, nUnit, C#, MSTest, Python or Perl. Now your tests can be run as part of your continuous delivery processes or your existing test automation suites.

Use advanced scripting to extend the synchronization, control and management of all of your scripts. Adopting a data-driven approach to testing will ensure reusability and enable users to parameterize their data and use external data sources.

Test Management

Integrate with Silk Central

Integration with the Silk Central Test Management Solution delivers control and collaboration of your Silk Mobile scripts. Control, plan and execute your advance mobile test scripts through the Test Management tool to deliver complete traceability back to initial requirements.

Silk Mobile videos

Silk Mobile Introduction

Successfully test your mobile apps with Silk Mobile. You can record tests, create, update and export scripts on a physical device that helps you test in the way a user will interact. With the added ability to easily run created scripts across multiple devices Silk Mobile makes it possible to get apps to market with speed and confidence.

Silk Mobile: Demo

This Silk Mobile demo shows how the functional and regression testing of a mobile device is made easy. See how to capture all your actions, modify scripts, and a real example of mobile functional automation in action.

Silk Mobile recorded webinars

Top 5 things you need to know about mobile testing

Archie Roboostoff Borland Director of Product Management and Clint Sprauve Borland Product Marketing Director, discuss the top 5 things you need to know about mobile testing and how Silk Mobile can assist.

Additional Features

Mobile app users have come to expect a high level of functionality, usability and reliability. With buying patterns radically moving from desktop to mobile and the competiveness of this market space, it’s key you’re ready for continuing evolution of the mobile space.

Silk Mobile's powerful features enable companies to fully user test mobile apps on real devices, across leading OS, with automation tools. Getting your app live cheaply, quickly and without affecting quality and the customer experience.

Detailed List of Features

Feature	Support
Mobile OS	Android (phone & tablet) iOS (iPhone & iPad) BlackBerry (excluding tablet Windows Mobile Symbian from Series 60 onwards Note: All emulators are supported All operating systems versions are supported Please refer to release note or supportline.microfocus.com for latest information
Test coverage	Inside application testing Outside application testing (phone settings, battery) Browser testing System alerts Security alerts Reboot device Awake device from sleep mode Operate device power button Operate device Back, Call/Hang Call, Home, Menu buttons Shell commands for internal device counters (eg CPU, memory) Landscape model
Text support	OCR engine with support for all languages (including DBCS) and special characters Text input One-click text insertion into text boxes, log-in prompts, etc. All text input methods supported: virtual keyboard, PC keyboard, direct text Text extraction: extract any text from table, area etc. and run enquiries on it
Image/icon support	Standard icons/images (eg buttons) Proprietary icons/images Auto-sense capabilities for one-click image extraction Sensitivity calibration to changes in image (eg size, color, background, transparency) Image identification on changing backgrounds (eg transparent, gradient, moving elements)
Gesture support	Multi-touch Swipe Drag & drop Zoom Scroll including conditional scrolling
Keyboard support	Device keyboard: All configurations (alphabet, punctuation and numbers, and punctuation and symbols) All languages PC keyboard including special characters (DBCS) and capitilization
Scripting capabilities	Recorder Script debugger Script multiplier: Script once, run on multiple devices

Datasheets

Silk Mobile provides an easy-to-use, comprehensive approach to functional testing of real mobile devices. Check out our datasheet for more detailed information.

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TEST’s 20 leading testing providers

It is all too evident something of a boom is going on in the testing sector, with thousands of new mobile apps and an ever-widening range of platforms, operating systems and networks to run on ─ there has never been so much software to test. Borland was the headline sponsor in TEST magazine’s guide to the top suppliers to the software testing and QA sector.

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Performance Testing

Away from the Silk Mobile solution, we offer rigorous mobile performance testing with Silk Performer.

Silk Performer for mobile performance testing

Silk Performer fully supports performance testing for mobile web applications and native apps, with profiles for all popular mobile devices and application types.

Many web applications look different on a mobile device. Application performance testing of mobile versions of web pages must be treated as separate applications, even though they might share some back-end components.

Recording mobile browsers

Silk Performer can record and simulate a variety of mobile browsers on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and Blackberry.

Recording native apps on a mobile device

For unrivalled accuracy directly record traffic from a smartphone or tablet over the air via the Silk Performer proxy.

Recording a device-emulator

Don’t have access to specific mobile devices? Use a device emulator to record browser-based or native applications.

Mobile bandwith simulation

Accurately simulate mobile network connections with pre-defined profiles for phone standards like GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+, and LTE.

bandwith simulation

Mobile Cloud testing

Simulate massive traffic of mobile devices from different parts of the world and validate the impact these might have on your new or existing applications.

Cloud world map

Read more about our cloud- based testing solution in the 'Cloudburst' section.

Silk Mobile supports testing of your applications on the broadest possible range of platforms including Android, iOS, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, and HTML5

Platform	Mobile Devices	Emulators
Android	All hardware models including Tablets All software versions	All emulators
iOS	All hardware models up to and including iPad3 All software versions up to and including iOS5	All emulators
BlackBerry	All hardware models including Touch, excludes Tablet All software versions including 7	All emulators
Windows Mobile	All hardware models All software versions excluding WP7 & WP8	All emulators *Note: This includes WP7 & WP8*
Symbian	UIQ and Series 60 onwards	All emulators

Note: For latest information on Devices and Emulators supported please refer to product release note provided with Silk Mobile.

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