One of SilkTest’s main advantages is the power and flexibility of its object recognition mechanism. By using an XPath notation for locating UI elements SilkTest reliably can identify UI elements that do not have suitable properties as long as there are UI elements “near” the element...

To be able to reliably identify UI controls SilkTest, like any other UI automation tool, relies on adequate identifiers that the application exposes for its UI controls. Unlike other automation tools SilkTest provides great flexibility and power in the way it can identify UI controls. Not only can SilkTest...

The more test cases fail due to synchronization faults the less confidence you will have in your test automation! Synchronization is a critical issue with any test automation scripts. You may think that synchronization of test script actions is a built-in ability of today’s functional testing...

SilkTest provides general support for WPF and Winforms, which means that all controls included in the .Net framework are supported. The support of a control is on the hand the recognition of that control during recording and on the other hand the provided API for interacting with the control. Many...

It is a common problem to datadrive automated tests. With the given JTF (Java API for running automated tests with Silk4J) there are several options of how to implement such tests. In this article I want to use the JUnit parametrized Runner and Excel to datadrive a simple GMO sample. The mandatory...

This month’s bug story is a slow pitch, just in time for baseball season. There comes a time in your practice where you find your application works on most machines, but not all. And of course, your customers or users will tell you their machine is “exactly” like his neighbors where...

SilkPerformer plays the canon Frère Jacques with three virtual users, each one controlling its own IE instance using the Browser-driven Load Testing feature. The virtual users synchronize themselves at a couple of rendezvous points in order to keep time. Turn on your speakers and enjoy! ...

SilkPerformer plays the canon Frère Jacques with three virtual users, each one controlling its own IE instance using the Browser-driven Load Testing feature. The virtual users synchronize themselves at a couple of rendezvous points in order to keep time. Turn on your speakers and enjoy...

Micro Focus is pleased to announce the general availability of SilkCentral Test Manager 2011. SilkCentral Test Manager is the Micro Focus solution for continuous quality management, representing the hub from which all other quality activities need to be managed and scheduled. SilkCentral Test Manager...

An update to SilkPerformer 2011 is now available for download from SupportLine . This hotfix includes a number of fixes for issues reported by our users and enhancements to Browser-driven Load Testing. Further details about these fixes as well as installation instructions are available here .

Micro Focus is pleased to announce the general availability of SilkPerformer 9.0 (2012) our award winning, enterprise-class performance testing solution. The new release of SilkPerformer 9.0 extends our leading Web 2.0, Mobile testing and CloudBurst capabilities. New polished and streamlined designs...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Silk Test 13.0, our industry leading, automated testing solution. This release of Silk Test 13.0 extends our leading Web 2.0 testing capabilities, provides increased support for custom controls and improves usability for a broad range of user...

The Agile Manifesto seems to go against the traditional role of Quality Assurance (QA). The Agile Manifesto (from http://agilemanifesto.org/ ) states We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others to do it. Through this work we have come to value Individuals...

Hello everyone, In increasingly shared and virtualized infrastructures, simulating high-, medium- and low- concurrency scenarios associated to key business events becomes critical. Access to different resources (database, web services, content, tokens etc) will vary according to business specifics...

An update to Silk Test 13 is now available for download from SupportLine . In addition to a number of resolved issues Silk Test 13 Hotfix 1 provides the following enhancements: Support for Mozilla Firefox 12 and 13 Adobe Flex 4.6 Support Java 7 Support For a list of fixed issues...

Silk Central 12.0.1 has now been released and is GA providing localisation of the GUI to support French . All core functionality of Silk Central remains the same as Silk Central 12.0 Release. For trial download of Silk Central please access through: http://www.borland.com/products/SilkCentral...

Hey Guys, I am ona project and having a trouble with one requirement. We need to do a load test with 240 VUs running one script with two different transaction in it for 2 hours. We need to run first transaction with all VUs only once at the start of the Test, then after 20 min out of 240 VUs only...

Writing SilkTest scripts for automated GUI-level tests is like writing a unit test. Basically you can use any testing framework as long as you can use the SilkTest Java/.Net API. You are only limited to a Java or .Net Runtime for the test execution. The key difference between unit testing and GUI-level...

Simple Dialogs Test Objects/Actions Design The screenshot below shows a simple dialog that contains two text fields, one combo box and two buttons. Good candidates for the corresponding test object name include Login , LoginDlg , and Login_Dialog . Note that no spaces are allowed. Use ‘_’...

Abstract In an IT world of constant change, shorter release cycles, iterative development processes, and increasing complexity of enterprise applications, testing is a business-critical step in the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) . Automation of testing processes is a must-have for organizations...

Compared to traditional software development projects, the role of test automation in agile development projects is more important and significantly different. The close collaboration between various stakeholders in agile software projects also changes the way that quality, and with it testing, is managed...

Using the built in JUnit test type of SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) is a powerful way to automate the execution of JUnit tests. Nevertheless, it can be quite cumbersome if you have to add a new SCTM test, each time a new test class should be executed. With the freeware library ClasspathSuite (©Johannes...

Welcome to the Silk Test Wiki, the new home for everything interesting and cool about Silk Test. Silk Test is an easy to use, full functional set of interfaces (clients), which enables you to perform automated functional testing in a variety of development environments and programming languages. ...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Silk Test 13.5, our industry leading, automated testing solution. This release of Silk Test 13.5 introduces support for Windows 8 and extends our leading Web 2.0 testing capabilities with support for the latest versions of the leading browsers...

Silk Performer supports GUI-level load testing (load testing of fat-client applications). To test these applications, Silk Performer uses Windows Terminal Services to connect to and open client sessions on agent computers. Silk Test launches clients, runs GUI level tests, and communicates results back...