Specifying a Browser for Silk Test Classic to Use in Testing a Web Application

This functionality is supported only if you are using the Classic Agent.

You can specify a browser for Silk Test Classic to use when testing a Web application at runtime or you can use the browser specified through the Runtime Options dialog box.

To completely automate your testing, consider specifying the browser at runtime. You can do this in one of the following ways:

For an example of passing browser specifiers to a test case, see the second example in BROWSERTYPE. It shows you how to automate the process of running a test case against multiple browsers.

Specifying a browser through the Runtime Options dialog box

When you run a test and do not explicitly specify a browser, Silk Test Classic uses the browser specified in Runtime Options dialog box. To change the browser type, you can:

  1. Run a series of tests with a specific browser.
  2. Specify a different browser in the Runtime Options dialog box.
  3. Run the tests again with the new browser.

Most tests will run unchanged between browsers.