Silk Test is a tool specifically designed for doing Regression and Functionality testing. It is developed by Segue Software Inc.
Silk Test is the industry’s leading functional testing product for e-business applications
, whether Window based, Web, Java, or traditional client/server-based. Silk Test also offers test planning, management, direct database access and validation, the flexible and robust 4Test scripting language, a built in recovery system for unattended testing, and the ability to test across multiple platforms, browsers and technologies.
You have two ways to create automated tests using silktest:
1. Use the Record Testcase command to record actions and verification steps as you navigate through the application.
2. Write the testcase manually using the Visual 4Test scripting language.
1. Record Testcase
The Record / Testcase command is used to record actions and verification steps as you navigate through the application. Tests are recorded in an object-oriented language called Visual 4Test. The recorded testreads like a logical trace of all of the steps that were completed by the user. The Silk Test point and click verification system allows you to record the verification step by selecting from a list of properties that are appropriate for the type of object being tested. For example, you can verify the text is stored in a text field.
2. Write the Testcase manually
We can write tests that are capable of accomplishing many variations on a test. The key here is re-use. A test case can be designed to take parameters including input data and expected results. This "data-driven" testcase is really an instance of a class of test cases that performs certain steps to drive and verify the application-under-test. Each instance varies by the data that it carries. Since far fewer tests are written with this approach, changes in the GUI will result in reduced effort in updating tests. A data-driven test design also allows for the externalization of testcase data and makes it possible to divide the responsibilities for developing testing requirements and for developing test automation. For example, it may be that a group of domain experts create the Testplan Detail while another group of test engineers develop tests to satisfy those requirements.
In a script file, an automated testcase ideally addresses one test requirement. Specifically, a 4Test function that begins with the test case keyword and contains a sequence of 4Test statements. It drives an application to the state to be tested, verifies that the application works as expected, and returns the application to its base state.
The Silk products include
Sit Test for functional and regression testing
Silk Performer for load and performance simulation
Silk Pilot for functional and regression testing CORBA and EJB servers
Silk Radar for automated defet tracking
Silk Vision for enterprise application health monitoring
Silk Express for a scalability and load testing consulting solution.
Silk Test Features :
Some of the feature of silk test are given below.
* Easy to use interface
* Built in recovery system
* The object oriented concept
* Record & Play
* Multi-kind application testing
* Automatic generation of results
* Browser & Platform independent
* 24 x 365 unattended testing
* Distributed Access to Test Results
* Cross Platform Java Testing
* Testing Across Multiple Browsers and Windows Versions
* Support for HTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, Active X, Windows controls, and Visual Basic.
* Single-recording testing for cross-platform Java testing with the Silk Bean.
* Against Over 35 Databases.
* Link Tester
* Validation of Advanced Database Structure and Techniques
* Creation of
Test Plan
Test Frame
Test Suite
* Integration with other silk products.
Silk Test Architecture
Normal use of an application consists of a person manipulating a keyboard and mouse to initiate application operations. The person is said to be interacting with the GUI (Graphical User Interface). During Silk Test testing, Silk Test interacts with the GUI to submit operations to the application automatically. Thus Silk Test can simulate the actions of a person who is exercising all the capabilities of an application and verifying the results of each operation. The simulated user (Silk test) is said to be driving the application. The application under test reacts to the simulated user exactly as it would react to a human rest. Silk Test consists of two distinct software components that execute in separate processes :
Silk Test host software
The Silk Test host software is the program you use to develop, edit, compile, run and debug your 4Test scripts and test plans. This manual refers to the system that runs this program as the host machine or the Silk Test machine.
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Source:
http://www.onestoptesting.com/silk-test/
Silk Test is the industry’s leading functional testing product for e-business applications
, whether Window based, Web, Java, or traditional client/server-based. Silk Test also offers test planning, management, direct database access and validation, the flexible and robust 4Test scripting language, a built in recovery system for unattended testing, and the ability to test across multiple platforms, browsers and technologies.
You have two ways to create automated tests using silktest:
1. Use the Record Testcase command to record actions and verification steps as you navigate through the application.
2. Write the testcase manually using the Visual 4Test scripting language.
1. Record Testcase
The Record / Testcase command is used to record actions and verification steps as you navigate through the application. Tests are recorded in an object-oriented language called Visual 4Test. The recorded testreads like a logical trace of all of the steps that were completed by the user. The Silk Test point and click verification system allows you to record the verification step by selecting from a list of properties that are appropriate for the type of object being tested. For example, you can verify the text is stored in a text field.
2. Write the Testcase manually
We can write tests that are capable of accomplishing many variations on a test. The key here is re-use. A test case can be designed to take parameters including input data and expected results. This "data-driven" testcase is really an instance of a class of test cases that performs certain steps to drive and verify the application-under-test. Each instance varies by the data that it carries. Since far fewer tests are written with this approach, changes in the GUI will result in reduced effort in updating tests. A data-driven test design also allows for the externalization of testcase data and makes it possible to divide the responsibilities for developing testing requirements and for developing test automation. For example, it may be that a group of domain experts create the Testplan Detail while another group of test engineers develop tests to satisfy those requirements.
In a script file, an automated testcase ideally addresses one test requirement. Specifically, a 4Test function that begins with the test case keyword and contains a sequence of 4Test statements. It drives an application to the state to be tested, verifies that the application works as expected, and returns the application to its base state.
The Silk products include
Sit Test for functional and regression testing
Silk Performer for load and performance simulation
Silk Pilot for functional and regression testing CORBA and EJB servers
Silk Radar for automated defet tracking
Silk Vision for enterprise application health monitoring
Silk Express for a scalability and load testing consulting solution.
Silk Test Features :
Some of the feature of silk test are given below.
* Easy to use interface
* Built in recovery system
* The object oriented concept
* Record & Play
* Multi-kind application testing
* Automatic generation of results
* Browser & Platform independent
* 24 x 365 unattended testing
* Distributed Access to Test Results
* Cross Platform Java Testing
* Testing Across Multiple Browsers and Windows Versions
* Support for HTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, Active X, Windows controls, and Visual Basic.
* Single-recording testing for cross-platform Java testing with the Silk Bean.
* Against Over 35 Databases.
* Link Tester
* Validation of Advanced Database Structure and Techniques
* Creation of
Test Plan
Test Frame
Test Suite
* Integration with other silk products.
Silk Test Architecture
Normal use of an application consists of a person manipulating a keyboard and mouse to initiate application operations. The person is said to be interacting with the GUI (Graphical User Interface). During Silk Test testing, Silk Test interacts with the GUI to submit operations to the application automatically. Thus Silk Test can simulate the actions of a person who is exercising all the capabilities of an application and verifying the results of each operation. The simulated user (Silk test) is said to be driving the application. The application under test reacts to the simulated user exactly as it would react to a human rest. Silk Test consists of two distinct software components that execute in separate processes :
Silk Test host software
The Silk Test host software is the program you use to develop, edit, compile, run and debug your 4Test scripts and test plans. This manual refers to the system that runs this program as the host machine or the Silk Test machine.
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Source:
http://www.onestoptesting.com/silk-test/