HP WinRunner is no more

The life of SQA Engineers evaluating tools for automation testing becomes easier. SilkTest's competitor Winrunner went belly up. HP replaces HP Winrunner tool with HP QTP 9.5. Read more details on HP QTP FAQ site. The King is dead. Long live the King!

Borland releases SilkTest 2006 Release 2

On 25th January 2007 Borland announced the release of SilkTest 2006 Release 2, which has a lot of new features:

• Password Encryption
• Calling DLL Functions
• Silk TrueLog Explorer for SilkTest
• .NET DataGridView
• Timer Functions
• Synchronizing Controls for Verification

I updated the following Silktest FAQ interview questions:

• 41: What is the latest version of Silk test?
• 29: How to hide password in the 4test script file?
• 3 : Is SilkTest Extension Kit part of Silk Test?

SilkTest Question 41: What is the latest version of Silktest?

In the preparation for interviewing, I like to review the resume of potential QA Tester candidate to verify time line of using correct version of SilkTest tool and if I see something like "Automated regression testing of new builds utilizing Segue SilkTest" dated between 2000-2002, I would definitely ask about version of automated test tool you were using back then. So I would recommend updating as soon as possible your QA resume with published below short version of Silktest releases.

• June, 2012 - Borland SilkTest 13
• November, 2011 - Micro Focus SilkTest 2011
• May, 2011 - Micro Focus SilkTest 2010 R2 WS 2
• December, 2010 - Micro Focus SilkTest 2010 R2
• July, 2010 - Micro Focus SilkTest 2010
• August 12, 2009 - SilkTest 2009
• July, 2008 - SilkTest 2008 SP1
• April, 2008 - SilkTest 2008
• September, 2007 - SilkTest 2006 R2 Service Pack 2
  
• June, 2007 - SilkTest 2006 Release 2 Service Pack 1
  
• January, 2007 - Silk Test 2006 R2
  
• September, 2006 - SilkTest 2006
• May, 2006 - SilkTest 8.0
• September, 2005 - SilkTest 7.6
• June, 2005 - SilkTest 7.5
• October, 2004 - SilkTest 7.1
• November 2003, - SilkTest 6.5
• November 2002, - SilkTest 6.0
• September 1999, - SilkTest 5.0.1
• November 1996, - QA partner 4.0 as part of QualityWorks client/server testing suite

What is the latest version of QuickTest Professional?

SilkTest 2006 released by Borland

I suspect the main reason for fresh release is only marketing in addition to Borland JBuilder 2006, Borland Delphi 2006, Borland C++ Builder 2006, Borland C# Builder 2006 the customers are going to have Borland SilkTest 2006. Reading through release notes I see that only two bugs were fixed in the new release and automation tool packaged with TrueLog Explorer which supposes to simplify root cause analysis of test case failures via visual verification. The SilkTest 2006 supports integration with Borland's StarTeam 2005, but you need to buy one. SilkTest International is no more and it is included in the new version and the same happened with .Net support. The bad new is that the price of upgraded automated tool skyrocketed from $6,500 to $9,000 and the same deal appears with SilkTest runtime license it went up to $4,000 from $3,250. Is time to buy BORL? Not yet! SilkTest 2006 only works in an United States locale environment (locale is a set of user preference information related to the user's language, environment and/or cultural conventions). As we all know Windows XP includes support 136 different locales and Borland tested tool only for one of them.