Micro Focus Silk Test Reviews

I like the way this tool helps in regression testing. It saves a lot of time for us.

I like all the features provided by Micro Focus skill test. Be it it's speed and quality. Be it continuous testing.

But I feel there is a minute learning curve to use this tool.

It helps great in doing regression testing which I am sure everyone needs to do before every major release.

We are doing regression testing via this tool. I liked it's speed & quality.

Tool is not very complex to use. Once the tool is setup you can start using it for your nightly test runs and reports. The tool supports multiple languages which is a good thing.

You can assign diffrent roles to the user so that no body can accidentally do things that they are not supposed to do. It allows easy management of what each user can do within the tool.

Setup is complex. You need a silk expert to do the initial setup.

Uploading the script is also painful. A slight mismatch and upload fails.

Help and Support is really poor. The online community for silk users are not lots hence good luck if you need to find some help.

There are better options available in the market than silk. Silk is not bad but since the support is poor i would not go with it. Check out if you have alternate options and if not it's ok to evaluate the tool.

I used Silk tests mainly for running smoke and regression testing on daily builds and share the health of the build to the team.

- generally easy and friendly to use for QA users

- the 4Test language is the best thing about it

- the integration with Silk Central

- basic web searches don't reveal very much in the way of tutorials, sample code, help

We are using especially for smoke tests and regression testing.

It provides a very subtle and unique UI to get the tasks done. One of the most amazing feature it provides is the steps. The easy steps that we can add and prcoeed with our script step by step. Additionally it provides screen preview which is quite useful to proceed with automation quickly.

We should know some keywords to write the scrpts. At the basic level it is ok but it's a bit difficult as the script complexity increases.

Good automation tool for automating web apps.

Dedicated resources would be required who work on SIlkTest.

I have automated a cloud based application for one of the leading client of the cloud domain. The task was to automate the cloud portal application which ultimately was used to create VM machines. Hence, through automation the process was made easier from end to end.

Easy to coordinate with other users, easy linkage of defects to steps in a process, ability to make live updates. One great thing about the tool is the ability to assign users to different roles, allowing easy management of what each user is able to access within the tool.

It is a very petty process to load scripts into the tool; characters & value must match completely and if there is one slight difference, the upload will fail. The tool also takes a lot of time to master, especially to configure the tool. Updating fields & values is also very petty and required some research and YouTube videos before being able to navigate the tool as a superuser.

Using Silk Test as a test management tool for Systems Integration Testing for an ERP implementation. All test scenarios are uploaded in the tool and then executed by users. As steps are executed, scenario status updates automatically and defects can be logged when a step fails. Main benefit has been extracting raw data from this tool to build out reporting dashboards in excel.

That it will work eventually after a long time of configuring and going through the painful debugging process.

Most of all, the lack of color coded syntax.

Also the lack of intent lines

Also the need for two script files for a test run

Also the useless debugging mode

Also the horrible lack of documentation

Check out your other options first.

We are trying to test UI functions in our software. Although I feel my job is more to find errors in SILK rather than in our program.