With
Silk Test Workbench, you can easily verify the functionality of even the most advanced web application across a variety of browsers, with a single, portable visual test or test script.
Silk Test Workbench provides leading support for effective and maintainable cross-browser testing with modern web technologies.
One of the main challenges in test automation is to create and maintain test cost effectively. As different browsers behave differently, web application validation is hard to carry out productively.
Silk Test Workbench enables you to focus on writing tests, as it handles the following three areas of cross-browser testing:
- Built-in synchronization
- This enables you to create scripts that run on all supported browsers, without the need to manually synchronize against asynchronous events, which are typical of highly dynamic web applications such as AJAX, or HTML5.
Silk Test Workbench supports synchronization modes for HTML or AJAX as well as all major web environments including
Apache Flex,
Microsoft Silverlight, and HTML5/AJAX. For additional information, see
Page Synchronization for xBrowser.
- Unified object model
- Silk Test Workbench enables you to create and maintain a test which runs across a wide range of different browsers. A unified object model across all browsers gives you the ability to focus on a single browser when you create or maintain a test.
Silk Test Workbench ensures that the object you interact with is accessible in the same way on all the other browsers, which saves time and enables you to focus on testing rather than on finding workarounds for different browsers.
- Out-of-the-box recording of a cross-browser script
- Record a script once and replay it in all the other browsers, without any modifications. This significantly reduces the time and effort it takes to create and maintain test scripts. Nothing is simulated - testing is carried out across real browsers, which ensures that the test behaves exactly as it does for your end user.
With
Silk Test Workbench, you can test web applications that use:
- Internet Explorer.
- Mozilla Firefox.
- Google Chrome.
- Microsoft Edge.
- Chrome for Android on an
Android device.
- Apple Safari, both on a Mac and on an
iOS device.
- Embedded browser controls.
Note: You can record tests for web applications using one of the following browsers:
- Internet Explorer.
- Microsoft Edge.
- Mozilla Firefox.
- Google Chrome 50 or later.
- A mobile browser on a mobile device.
You can replay tests or record locators on any other supported browser.
Note: Before you record or playback web applications, disable all browser add-ons that are installed in your system. To disable add-ons in
Internet Explorer, click
, click the
Programs tab, click
Manage add-ons, select an add-on and then click
Disable.
For information about new features, supported platforms, and tested versions, refer to the
Release Notes.
Sample Applications
To access the
Silk Test sample web applications, go to: