SILK TEST™ GUIDE
GUIDE
SILK TEST:
THE BUG BUSTER
AUTOMATE TEST SCRIPTS FOR
MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS
AND NETWORKS
Enter
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SILK TEST™ GUIDE
SILK TEST
SILK TEST:
THE BUG BUSTER
Debug or decline
If software is important to your business, then a robust software change management strategy should be
vital. Complex software requires frequent changes and inadequate testing means more bugs. Bugs can
and will cause software failure, loss of market share and reputational damage. Whatever the size of your
company, one little bug in your flagship software product can cause big problems. Change management
needs careful handling, because your company is only as strong as your software testing.
Want 100% success? Then you need good testing. There are no shortcuts.
In 2006 Forrester surveyed companies with inadequate processes. Problems included:
• Poor software quality (75%)
• Dissatisfied customers (72%)
• Unnecessary rework (71%)
• Missed deadlines (68%)
• Higher costs (61%)
• Failed changes (57%)
• Production downtime (50%)
If it happened to them ...
The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS): in 2007 a simple data conversion error cost NASA a $125m spacecraft.
Between 2001 and 2005, the FBI’s Virtual Case File (VCF) project failed, taking $170m worth of investment
with it. Costs overran by 89%. The London Stock Exchange cancelled their TAURUS project after it overran
by many years and several hundred million pounds.
Want 100% success? Then you need good testing. There are no shortcuts.
BETTER TESTING MAKES
BETTER APPLICATIONS
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Silk Test is the most reliable, efficient and fastest test automation solution available. It offers a better user
experience and real business benefits. Adaptable and flexible, Silk Test delivers from day one, working
alongside your technology and your people.
Borland is the first vendor to offer Windows 8/IE 10 support. Silk Test integrates with Visual Studio 2013,
so testing from within the MS/.Net infrastructure – ideal for Web 2.0 apps requiring cross-browser testing,
including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and mobile browsers – has never been easier.
SILK TEST™ GUIDE
SILK TEST
SHARPEN UP
Building test environments can be labour-intensive and expensive, but the application development
market is currently worth more than $9 billion (Gartner). So if you want a slice of the pie you need cuttingedge testing...
Silk Test: lean and mean
Silk Test requires no programming knowledge or coding experience. Non-technical people – including
business analysts – can build good tests. Silk Test works with all the latest browsers, using a single script.
United teams make better applications.
Easy to use – business users create automated tests without coding
Fast to deploy – software testers keep up with the pace of development
Flexible to use – developers create tests in their favourite IDE
Silk Test – slashing costs, cutting wasted rework
Four clients ensure that Silk Test deliver the complete service:
1. Silk Test Classic uses 4Test, a scripting language especially developed for testers
2. Silk4J enables automation in Eclipse using Java as scripting language
3. Silk4Net automate tests in Visual Studio using VB or C#
4. Silk Test Workbench - bridges the gap between a business analyst and the tester
BENEFIT CUTS
Cut! Cost of ‘emergency releases’ to fix
bugs in the field that cause delayed sales
and lose customers.
Cut! The costs of future bugs. Run a
regression suite to validate code before
sending to the testing team. They’ll cut
out the regression bugs - and the cost of
removing them.
Cut! The cost of working around existing
bugs. Developers debug new code faster
when it’s isolated from affected code.
Cut! The cost of testing with bugs. No more resubmitting untestable code.
One bug can hide another. So don’t have
any! Use Borland Silk Test.
GLOBAL, ANNUAL COST OF IT PROJECT FAILURE: UP TO $80BN (VARIOUS)
GLOBAL, ANNUAL COST OF SOFTWARE DEFECTS: $60BN (NIST)
AVERAGE COST OF FIXING SOFTWARE CODE PROBLEMS IN A LIVE APPLICATION: $3.57M (CAST)
COST OF SILK TEST: APPROX $8,000.
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SILK TEST
SILK TEST: BETTER TESTING
Better for you
Better for your team
Better for everyone
• Master automation of complex technologies for most
critical applications
• Your development team use their preferred IDE
• Time efficiency: no need to rewrite test scripts
• Ideal for multiple teams working in traditional or agile
environments
• Support for state-of-the-art technologies including
AJAX/Flex/ Web 2.0, Java, .NET, client/server and host
systems
• Reduced R&D costs: test and fix cycles minimized,
expensive resources are better utilized
• Testers quickly adjust to different UIs (Silk Test Classic,
Silk4J, Silk4Net, Silk Test Workbench)
• Everyone’s a developer: Anyone can build tests and
contribute to the automation process
• Silk Test now provides automatic screen verification,
capturing any and all differences between original and
migrated scripts with automatic screen verification.
• Faster time to market: less script maintenance thanks
to custom controls
“Our development/QA
lifecycle could be three
months long. Working with
Borland Silk Test, we have
reduced this to the point
where basic functionality
testing takes just a couple
of days”
Zdeněk Řehák
Test Automation Engineer,
AVG Technologies
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“... we will utilize complete
lifecycle testing using
Silk4J along with other test
solutions, but the heart of
its use will be for object
recognition and playback.
Silk4J meets our needs
because it is a lightweight
solution that does not
get in the way of the test
automation engineer.”
David Demmer
Quality Engineer,
ReadyTalk
“We’ve been using Silk Test
for more than eight years and
use it to test literally millions
of combinations of enduser interactions, product
versions and different types
of products. Silk Test is an
important part of our delivery
environment and one of the
reasons we are able to get to
market very quickly with a
variety of quality products”.
Karl Wagner
Manager, Software Design Environment,
Mitel
Silk Test is proven technology. It is a multi-faceted, complete solution. See for yourself how it works and
how it easy it is to use and the benefits it could bring to your organisation.
For more information visit www.borland.com/silktest