SilkTest interview question 66: SilkTest vs Selenium?
Lately one of the interns, who works for our company for training rather than only employment, asked me to make a suggestion to choose between SilkTest and Selenium as carrier path for future QA Engineer position.
Let's take a detailed glance and evaluate both test automated tools against each other:
The benefits of Selenium is completely free open source test automation tool, while SilkTest price is around a few thousand dollars per license. It means if you want to include Selenium to your talent set, just download free application, download manual and start testing. SilkTest download is not free, and available only for Borland customers, although everyone may download Silk Test free trial version, but it will help you for 30 days and then you will get bombarded by Borland sales asking to buy test automation tool.
There are no a single SilkTest book or tutorial in print yet except SilkTest Getting Started Tutorial, comparing with just published Selenium book "An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium", and QA society anticipate more Selenium books in the nearest future.
Selenium allows creating automated test cases only against web applications. In the same time QA Engineer may use Silk Test for automating client server application. Selenium gracefully supports a broad range of browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera or Konqueror on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In the same time Silk Test is restricted to Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows.
SilkTest uses 4Test scripting language to describe the test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and pedals of the application under test. One more benefits of Selenium has lots of language bindings like Java, .Net, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, so anyone can learn not only one tool, but add a few more lines in the resume.
Last thing to check is to visit any employment search sites like dice.com or monster.com and compare how many opening are available for SilkTest or Selenium.
Let's take a detailed glance and evaluate both test automated tools against each other:
The benefits of Selenium is completely free open source test automation tool, while SilkTest price is around a few thousand dollars per license. It means if you want to include Selenium to your talent set, just download free application, download manual and start testing. SilkTest download is not free, and available only for Borland customers, although everyone may download Silk Test free trial version, but it will help you for 30 days and then you will get bombarded by Borland sales asking to buy test automation tool.
There are no a single SilkTest book or tutorial in print yet except SilkTest Getting Started Tutorial, comparing with just published Selenium book "An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium", and QA society anticipate more Selenium books in the nearest future.
Selenium allows creating automated test cases only against web applications. In the same time QA Engineer may use Silk Test for automating client server application. Selenium gracefully supports a broad range of browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera or Konqueror on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In the same time Silk Test is restricted to Internet Explorer and Firefox on Windows.
SilkTest uses 4Test scripting language to describe the test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and pedals of the application under test. One more benefits of Selenium has lots of language bindings like Java, .Net, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, so anyone can learn not only one tool, but add a few more lines in the resume.
Last thing to check is to visit any employment search sites like dice.com or monster.com and compare how many opening are available for SilkTest or Selenium.
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