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SILK4NET
Product Overview
Silk4Net™, SilkTest®’s powerful plug-in for Microsoft Visual
Studio, is the most advanced tool for automating the functional
testing process of enterprise software applications.Silk4Net’s
powerful test automation capabilities make it the perfect solution
for regression, cross-platform and localization testing across
a broad set of application technologies including AJA X and
Web 2.0, RCP or .NET and client/server, within the confines of
today’s short testing cycles. Designed for realizing automation
benefits even when applied to complex test cases, Silk4Net brings
true test automation capability directly to the .Net developer’s
preferred environment and helps you deal easily with changes
in the Application Under Test (AUT). Silk4Net’s powerful testing
framework enables high reusability of tests across test projects,
further increasing ROI. With less time spent building and
maintaining testing suites, QA staff can expand test coverage and
optimize application quality.
By allowing you to create and run more tests for less cost, SilkTest
is a cornerstone of the Micro Focus Continuous Quality Assurance
approach which enables you to check the quality of systems as
they are changed.
Key Benefits
Realizing the benefits of automated testing
Silk4Net delivers the efficiency and productivity benefits of
functional test automation while mitigating the classic challenges of
implementing automated testing, such as time, budget and resource
constraints. Successful automation comprises a manageable
development effort, reusable and easily maintained test assets, the
ability to run the automation whenever and wherever it’s needed
plus quick and accurate results analysis. Silk4Net enables all of these
elements to help you realize the benefits of your automated testing
efforts. With Silk4Net functional test automation leads to quality
and cost advantages:
Higher QA productivity and lower testing costs
Higher test coverage
Consistent and repeatable test results
Ability to create powerful testing frameworks and include .Net
developers in the testing process
Reduced risk of defects and associated costs
Supporting Test Driven Development
Creating sufficient tests to thoroughly verify your application’s
reliability can be a daunting task in today’s high speed development
environments. Silk4Net has many features to promote rapid test
development, such as a Standalone Action Recorder for rapid test
creation, customization and try runs of tests. However in a Test
Driven Development environment, there may often be no GUI to
record from. With Silk4Net test scripts can be created in VB .Net
or C# prior to, or alongside, code development to represent the
workflow of the software. Code can be leveraged and enhanced to
support a Test Driven Development approach.
Reliable and robust automation
Critical to automating today’s applications built with AJAX and other
highly dynamic capabilities, is their asynchronous behavior. Normally
this requires many synchronization points. Silk4Net provides unique
built-in fully automatic synchronization that completely eliminates
the need for manual wait statements and delivers robust and reliable
scripts out of the box. Web 2.0 test scripts can be replayed against
multiple browsers without modification.
Also important for reliable test automation is the ability to react
when systems fail while being tested. Silk4Net offers unique features
for running tests in an unattended 24/7 mode. Should an error
occur, such as an application crash, the error is logged and the
application is restored to its original base state. Subsequent tests
can continue to run and produce valid test results.
Maximizes test throughput
Today’s automated test cycles are often run during off hours to
check quality with short test windows. Silk4Net’s test execution
is the fastest in the industry with optimizations based on native
implementation of search algorithms and sophisticated caching
mechanisms. These optimizations allow you to maximize test
coverage and increase confidence in quality.
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Ease of maintenance
A classic challenge of test automation is the fragility of test
scripts when Applications Under Test (AUT) are modified during
development. Silk4Net eliminates the risk of test scripts breaking
through its industry leading robust object recognition approach.
Silk4Net’s object recognition decouples the hierarchy of the AUT’s
graphical elements from the internal representation in the test
scripts that shields scripts from underlying changes. A powerful
standalone recorder greatly enhances the ability to create test
automation frameworks that do not need to change as the
application changes or is localized. This is due to built-in locator
optimization, configurable locator strategies and support for custom
attributes/properties and black/white list for attributes and values.
Detailed Feature Overview
Key feature highlights include:
Support for state-of-the-art technologies including AJAX/Flex/
Web 2.0, Java, .NET and client/server
Multi-browser support without script modification
Full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, VB .Net and C#
Powerful standalone recorder with customization, replay and
export functionality
Support for local and remote test execution spanning multiple
machines
Integration with Micro Focus SilkCentral Test Manager for
advanced, process-oriented test management and issue tracking
Industry leading Open Agent technology with fully automatic
event synchronization
Dynamic Resolving enables an object to be located without
reference to a windows hierarchy
Product Specifications & System
Requirements
System requirements
Your computer must meet the hardware requirements listed below:
Platform
Windows XP Service Pack 3
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 R2
Processor
Intel or AMD DualCore processor running at 2 GHz
RAM
2 GB of RAM
Hard disk space
2GB of free disk space
Supported Environments
Browser GUIs
AJAX
DHTML (JavaScript and CSS)
XML data (XML/XSL Web pages)
Microsoft HTC/HTA
Animated Run Mode to provide ‘slow motion’ playback of test
scripts
Java Applets
Rich Internet Applications
Adobe Flex 3.0, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Adobe AIR
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Web Browser
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8
Mozilla Firefox 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6
Java GUIs
Eclipse 3.0 - 3.6
SWT Standalone and Rich Client Platform (RCP) applications
Java
Sun JVM 1.5, 1.6
.NET GUIs
Microsoft WinForms (.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 3.5 SP1)
Microsoft WPF (.NET 3.5 SP1)
.NET
Microsoft .NET CLR 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 3.5 SP1
Native GUIs
Win32
ERP
SAP (SAPGUI client 7.10)
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