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Silk TestPartner

Functional Test Automation – powerful, easy, cost-effective

Silk TestPartner
  • Easy to understand - Visual test creation and result analysis give the user intuitive insights
  • Easy to use - No coding required so any business users can create automated tests
  • Accelerate testing - software testers keep up with the pace of development, quality no longer a bottleneck

Silk, a family of test solutions

The Silk family has two of the most advanced test automation products available, Silk TestPartner™ and Silk Test™. Our aim is to take the unique capabilities from both products forward combined at a pace that meets all of our customers’ requirements. As we move toward that goal any customer will be able to use the product that best meets their needs and fits their unique situation.

While we travel towards our goal, TestPartner continues to be updated to meet our existing customers’ current and changing needs. Whether to maintain currency, provide enhancements to improve productivity or to keep up with changing environments, we will continue to evolve the Silk TestPartner product line. This will ensure that our core strength, ease of use to deliver world class leading test automation, supports you now and into the future.

TestPartner - Test automation

The test automation technologies delivered in Silk TestPartner allow you to achieve the highest levels of quality by:

  • Rapidly creating and running test automation
  • Creating test cases before products are in beta
  • Automatically extracting test cases from requirements systems
  • Have all user types participate in test automation
  • Visually create test flows
  • Validate tests at the IDE level
  • Rapidly debug test flows
  • And much more…

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At Borland we continue to invest in bringing the capabilities of Silk TestPartner™ and Silk Test™ closer together. Silk Test 13, released in May 2012, closes the gap significantly. It provides a very familiar user experience and delivers many of the great TestPartner features our customers have come to love like shared modules, a debugger for Visual Basic, automated text capture and compare.

CapabilityTestPartnerSilk Test 2011Silk Test 13
Visual record and playbackFeature includedFeature includedFeature included
Visual Basic scriptingFeature included VBAFeature included VB.NETFeature included
Web 2.0 EngineFeature includedFeature includedFeature included
SAP SupportFeature includedFeature includedFeature included
Integration with IDE - .NET and Java Feature includedFeature included
Java scripting Feature includedFeature included
64bit Applications .NETJava
Chrome Support  Feature included
Run time license, command line interfaceFeature included Feature included
Visual Basic script debuggingFeature included Feature included
Shared modulesFeature included Feature included
Text capture and validationFeature included Feature included

Silk TestPartner or Silk Test – Customer Choice™

Customer Choice™ is our way to provide current TestPartner users maximum flexibility. If you are satisfied with what TestPartner delivers today please continue to take advantage of your automation assets now and in the future. And do let us know what you need to keep these assets a valuable part of your strategy. For those of you whose testing requirements are expanding - needing support for 64 bit applications, or wanting to test against Chrome for example, you may want to consider using Silk Test and Silk TestPartner concurrently.

Whatever the scenario, if TestPartner doesn’t offer all functionality anymore you need, we have made using Silk Test the easy choice. And if migrating is right for you, we have the tools to help you move over to Silk Test with a minimum of effort.

Analysis tools

TestPartner assessment utility

Our new capability allows you to take a virtual inventory of all TestPartner assets. With this functionality, you can create a status overview of all test scripts currently being used to ensure you are getting the best value out of those scripts and help to determine possible technical debt. If you start to consider moving to Silk Test™ from TestPartner, it will help to scope the effort involved, providing comfort that moving is feasible and the right thing to do.

The assessment utility connects to your database and goes through all of the scripts, modules and objects to determine how easy it will be to convert. The analysis produces a report that rolls up how many assets and lines of script can be converted automatically, how many need manual workarounds and how many will need reimplementation in Silk Test.

assessment_utility

TestPartner conversion utility

Once you have decided that Silk Test offers value over and above (or of course next to) your current TestPartner implementation, a free migration tool is available to facilitate this move, eliminating risk, effort and uncertainty. As many test scripts as possible are automatically converted into Silk Test ready assets, minimizing the work your team has to do. So you can get back to the real work – ensuring your applications are tested properly and your team delivers the value your business relies on.

Migration

More information

If you want more information on analysis or migration tools, please contact us at tpmig@microfocus.com