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.
The test automation technologies delivered in Silk TestPartner allow you to achieve the highest levels of quality by:
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.
| Capability | TestPartner | Silk Test 2011 | Silk Test 13 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual record and playback |  | | |
| Visual Basic scripting | VBA | VB.NET | |
| Web 2.0 Engine | | | |
| SAP Support | | | |
| Integration with IDE - .NET and Java | | | |
| Java scripting | | | |
| 64bit Applications | .NET | Java | |
| Chrome Support | | ||
| Run time license, command line interface | | | |
| Visual Basic script debugging | | | |
| Shared modules | | | |
| Text capture and validation | | |
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.
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.
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.
If you want more information on analysis or migration tools, please contact us at tpmig@microfocus.com