Silktest Interview Question 75: Can Silktest 2009 do load testing?

Micro Focus SilkTest 2009 does not provide load testing capabilities and mainly used as functional testing tool. In the same time, a shrewd test automation engineer could easily integrate SilkTest 2009 with SilkPerformer 2009 to provide GUI Virtual User testing to validate performance and scalability when client-side performance.

Silktest Interview Question 74: What Silktest 2009 editions are available?

  • Micro Focus SilkTest 2009, support test case recording, editing, execution and results analysis.
  • SilkTest Silk4J, An eclipse plug-in to enable Java as a Scripting Language.
  • SilkTest Runtime, is a scaled-down version of Silk Test 2009 that provides a cost-effective way to run existing functional tests and analyze results, this edition require SilkCentral Test Manager 2009.

Borland is no more

The acquisition of the famous Borland by Micro Focus is complete. By acquiring Borland, Micro Focus is looking to take on Hewlett Packard, who is the leading provider of application testing tools with its HP Quality Center based on technology it acquired from Mercury Interactive a few years ago.

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