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Silk Test is Micro Focus's (previously Borland's) test automation solution for development, quality and business teams.

Silk Test is Micro Focus's (previously Borland's) test automation solution for development, quality and business teams.

https://www.microfocus.com/products/silk-portfolio/silk-test

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Are there any free alternatives to Silktest?

Does anyone know if there are any (ideally free) alternatives to SilkTest for automated GUI application testing? [Edit] This is a Windows-only GUI written in C++/CLI if that makes a difference.
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Why Are Automated GUI Tools So Fragile?

For about a year a half, I've been working with SilkTest, which is a GUI automation tool, for both desktop and web applications. It simulates mouse and keyboard inputs, which eventually simulate end user behaviour. However, I find that it is a bit…
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How to get function codes for SAP GUI context menus?

I am automating tests of our SAP GUI application using Silk4J (16.0.1.7470). There is a tree where I selected a node. I can open the context menu programmatically with SapTree.nodeContextMenu(). Now I want to simulate a click onto one of the context…
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Selenium - How to capture all web page elements and associated locators on a page?

What Java/Selenium commands can I use to capture/get/output for all elements and associated element locators for a single webpage? The Selenium IDE allows you to inspect one element at a time. That is a problem if you have thousands of elements to…
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Get the Type of an object's children in silktest

Assume i have an object and it has lots of children.May i know how i can find their types? I first used getChildren() to get the children and then used typeof() for each child. Typeof always returns Window. I would like to find if they are…
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How do I escape an asterisk in Silktest XPaths?

I have a UI element that contains an asterisk. Reading the Silktest XPath docs I find that * is a special character which matches everything (wildcard). How do I escape it?
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Silk test won't hit push button while run from Silk Central (Execution server)

I'm trying to click away an Internet explorer (windows security) sign in pop dialog used for signing in. The test is a jar file containing a Silk4J script and is run with Silk Central on a different machine using the execution server. When the…
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Checking if an identifier exists

In our Silk4J test environment, we use a naming convention in order to conveniently get access to windows. E.g. I can do SapWindow pt61 = sap.performTransaction("PT61"); to perform the PT61 transaction in SAP and it'll return a window that has the…
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getNodeText() does not return text for object manager search tree

I see the following search tree in SAP GUI: I'm trying to verify the contents of that tree, mainly I want to get the text that is displayed for the nodes. I'm using getNodeText() [MicroFocus] to get the text of the node, but it returns an empty…
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Number of filled rows in a SapTable

I'm using Silk4J and I have a table which is reported as SapTable in the Locator Spy. From that table, I'm trying to get all the texts of the second column, but it hangs or terminates with an exception. In the following you find the code for my…
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Silk4j - how to connect to remote machine and start application there?

I have been using SilkTest for long time now, in 4Test connecting to remote machines and working on remote applications was so smooth. I have recently started to look at Silk4J (SilkTest 15.5) and trying to do remote connect and start some…
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Silk Test Open Agent locks trace file

We have testing java application. This application performs different types of testing. On one step it starts Silk Test. This application writes a lot of traces using System.out.println. We redirect this traces to file app.trace in our cmd…
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SilkTest workbench Invalid Object Handle Exception?

I'm trying silktest for the first time with an in house application. In one of the windows, I have a button that has two menu lists : New (pushbutton) ---> Option1 (list menu ) + Option2 if option1 clicked ---> subOption1, subOption2? All these…
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silktest 20.5 + Windows 11: Anyone facing Issue executing Desktop.TypeKeys

I am having Issues executing Desktop.Typekeys on windows11. I’m using the Silktest 20.5 Silktest hangs when it tries to execute Generic statement like Desktop.TypKeys. Anyone facing the same Issue? Appreciate any workaround.
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Silk Test - Bitmap not stable exception

Has anyone encountered and fixed the "Bitmap not stable exception" or "Bitmap failed to stabilize error" in the Silk Test Workbench tool?
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