The Silk Portfolio 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.