Name: OpenText Silk Central
Rating: 7 (1 reviews)
Author: OpenText

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

AI Chatbot

Development

Attendance Tracking

Career Center

Education

Association Management

Business Intelligence (BI)

Case Management

Collaboration

File Sharing

File Sync

Objectives and Key Results (OKR)

Office Suites

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS)

Enterprise

Accounting

FinTech

Online Trading

SaaS Spend Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Performance Management

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Asset Tokenization

Business Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

Cloud Storage

Container Management

Debugging

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Fraud Detection

In-Memory Databases

Incident Response

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Intranet

Managed Private Cloud

Managed Security Service

Modular Storage Area Network (SAN)

Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

Network Performance Monitoring

Runtime Application Self-Protection

SSL Certificate

Secure Web Gateway

Threat Hunting

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Personalization Engines

Product Management

Sales and Marketing Automation

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Technology Review

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales Forecasting

Sales Pipeline

Sales

Microsegmentation

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Security

Automotive

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Catering

Law Practice Management

Legal Research

Tour Operator

Vertical-Specific

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Formerly from Micro Focus and earliler from Borland, unified test management with OpenText™ Silk Central drives reuse and efficiency. It gives users the visibility to control application readiness.

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Test Management Tools are software that organize and present for evaluation the unified results of tests so that judgments about the quality and readiness of applications and services that are presently under testing can be more accurately and justifiably made.

Test Management

Likelihood to Recommend

Centralized test management

Manage test hosts and schedules

Map tests to user stories

Test execution reporting

OpenText is a leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM). EIM enables organizations to grow the business, lower costs of operations, and reduce information governance and security related risks. OpenText focuses on the key drivers of business success to improve business insight, strengthen business impact, accelerate process velocity, address information governance and provide security.

Test management tools are used to manage the entire testing process comprehensively, removing the need for multiple software tools to manage individual steps in the testing process

Ability to manages both manual and automated tests from a centralized location

Ease of setup of automated tests and test schedules

Provide visibility into user story test coverage

Comprehensive reporting on which tests have been run and pass/fail

Defect management

Ability to automatically log defects and link them to failed tests, and report defect resolution progress

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Time zones

Different time zones

Don't have enough

Third party

Feature requests

Third party tools

Test environment

Tech support

Server side

Easy to extend

Business intelligence

Test cases

Test case

Test automation

Home

Test Management Tools

Borland Silk Central Test Manager (SCTM) is being used by Western Digital across several testing departments. Before SCTM, each department had its own way to manage tests, either through Excel or using the tool developed by the drive department which was awkward for software testing. With SCTM, all testing departments have a tool which is more suitable for software testing and provides a unified platform to combine and share all test efforts and results.

Borland Silk Central is good for the users to associate test requirements, test cases, execution plans and test reports together. Each asset (test case, requirement, etc...) provides links for the users to jump to other assets in a click, and the users can jump back and forth between two assets.
Borland Silk Central is also good in test automation. Although Micro Focus does provide a client tool for test automation, the users don't really need it to automate the tests. In our case, we are using Python to automate the tests and use a batch file to launch tests, and in Borland Silk Central we just call that batch file from server side. The test result is automatically fed back to Silk server.
Micro Focus also publishes the schema of the database behind Borland Silk Central, so it is very easy to extend its function beyond its original design. Moreover, because its schema is published, we can easily retrieve and process its data for business intelligence purpose.

On the other hand, the plugins of Borland Silk Central with third-party tools are programmed poorly. In our case, the plugins for JIRA have a lot of limitations and were almost unusable in our test environment. (They did improve the plugins a little bit later, however.)
The tech support people are located in UK, so frequently it is difficult to get a hold of these guys due to different time zones. Also, most of them obviously don't have enough experience and sometimes drove us nuts in emergency situations.
The last thing I feel is that Micro Focus possibly doesn't provide enough manpower to maintain Borland Silk Central. There are tons of feature requests for Borland Silk Central pending there. Although they have frequent hot fixes every few months, they don't digest these requests quick enough.

Borland Silk Central provides a centralized test platform for multiple test departments in the company, so now all of the departments know what each of them is doing. In turn, all departments can coordinate with each other to reduce the duplicated test items and increase the overall test efficiency.
Also, Borland Silk Central enables the users to publish the test procedure (steps) of each test case so all the users can know how each test case is performed. It is not like what we had before, the test procedures resided in difference place from Excel to Google drive or some other weird locations.
Also, because all departments are using Borland Silk Central, all testers of the departments have better communication regarding testing methods. In the past, the department used different test management tools and it was hard for the testers to understand each other's testing methods.
Finally, because all departments share BorlandSilk Central, they also share the same set of reports published to Atlassian Confluence, so now they use the same set of reports to evaluate the test progress.

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OpenText Silk Central
Formerly Micro Focus Silk Central

Overview

What is OpenText Silk Central?