Borland SilkTest 2008 is available for download

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Austin, Texas - Apr 07, 2008 : Borland Software Corporation (NASDAQ: BORL, www.borland.com), today announced the availability of its Borland Silk 2008 product line.

Now SQA Engineers can download free Borland SilkTest 2008 (30-day trial version). The Silk Test 2008 release includes the following new features and enhancements:

• New SilkTest Open Agent
• SilkTest Default Agent
• Adobe Flex Support
• Adobe Flex Sample Applications
• Animated Run Mode (Slow-Motion)
• TrueLog Generation Can Be Turned Off or On Using the Run Testcase Dialog
• Use ANSI Calls Available from the Agent Options Dialog
• DOM Extensions Dialog Includes List Item Option
• IBM JRE Support

Most awaited by many Quality Assurance Engineers features like usage Java as development language or use of Eclipse Interface as IDE will be available later with the release of SilkTest 2008 R2. Borland sets the price for SilkTest 2008 starting at $4,500 per user and depends from type of license.

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 SilkTest 2008 Release Notes

Let's imagine that Borland SilkTest 2008 has been released and available for download, so we are going through the first few lines of release notes for Borland Silk Test 2008:

What's New
This section lists significant enhancements and changes that were made for the SilkTest 2008 release

Integration in development process
SilkTest 2008 introduces Eclipse plug-in to allow test development to be done within the Eclipse IDE.

Multi-language support
SilkTest 2008 implements the ability of using 4Test, Java or Python as coding language.

Flex Support
Silk Test 2008 now supports the following technologies Adobe Flex 2.x and 3.0

I hope you understood it were the imaginable release notes, but I still anticipate Borland has very strong commitment to Silk Test and that we will see all features described above and other great things coming over the next months.