Silk for use with SAP

Testing is a major cost element of rolling out SAP systems. Around 25% of the applications change within a single year, and the ongoing modifications, customizations and rollout of service packs demands a rigorous approach to testing.

Silk for use with SAP provides application lifecycle support for SAP deployments, and meets industry requirements for testing in a heterogeneous world.

The integrated suite modules includes:

• SilkCentral® Test Manager - managing the testing process throughout the SAP deployment lifecycle

• SilkPerformer® - load and performance testing of the SAP deployment

• SilkTest® - functional testing of SAP NetWeaver applications, SAP Enterprise Portals and SAP GUI

• Silk™ Integration Hub for use with SAP Solution Manager
  

SilkCentral Test Manager is the test management engine of the SAP Solution Manager and drives quality at every stage of application delivery. It ensures quality from the start with highly collaborative requirements driven testing capabilities, and provides continuous visibility over quality activities and methods. Its openness, flexibility and powerful traceability make it the preferred solution for agile or traditional delivery approaches inside the SAP world.

Silk Integration Hub connects the application lifecycle management capabilities of SAP Solution Manager with all test planning and test execution capabilities:

• Business Process from Business Blueprint into requirements in SilkCentral Test Manager

• Requirements can be converted into Test Cases in a Test Plan

• Test Case execution in SilkTest for use with SAP

• Test Results are updated and in sync with SAP Solution Manager

SilkPerformer for use with SAP is a cost-effective, enterprise-class performance testing solution for optimizing the performance of SAP business applications. It enables performance tests that accurately simulate peak demand loads and isolate performance bottlenecks to be created rapidly.

SilkPerformer for use with SAP makes it possible to create powerful, realistic load tests for thousands of users running business scenarios across a broad range of enterprise application environments, including Web 2.0, to find, diagnose and fix performance problems.

SilkPerformer CloudBurst and Diagnostics are value-added components of SilkPerformer for use with SAP.

SilkTest for use with SAP creates powerful, robust and fast test automation to identify and resolve issues early in development lifecycles.

It promotes collaboration through role-specific user interfaces designed for business analysts, test automation engineers and developers. Different stakeholders participate in creating powerful test automation to enable a continuous approach to quality assurance, reducing the costs of delivering high quality SAP applications.

Silk Integration Hub for use with SAP Solution Manager connects application lifecycle management capabilities of SAP Solution Manager with all test planning and test execution capabilities:

• Business Process from Business Blueprint into requirements in SilkCentral 

• Requirements can be converted into Test Cases in a Test Plan

• Test Case execution in SilkTest for use with SAP

• Test Results are updated and In Sync with SAP Solution Manager

Synchronizing SilkCentral Test Manager and SAP Solution Manager, using Silk Integration Hub for use with SAP SolMan