Silk Performer

Main Features:

• Web support across all major web environments - HTML5, AJAX, Responsive Web Design, Adobe Flash/Flex, and Microsoft Silverlight
  • Create accurate and realistic tests with hundreds of thousands of users on different devices, browsers, and connection speeds.
  • Provides multiple web testing approaches like web protocol and browser driven load testing.
  • Detect asynchronous communication patterns: push, polling, long-polling, WebSocket connections
  • Incorporate usage patterns and user tolerance levels
  • Test viewport widths to correct layout of responsive web design
  • Detect bandwidth constraints or backend server issues
• Mobile web & native application testing
  • Support mobile web and native applications, with profiles for all popular mobile devices, application types and connection speeds.
  • Record browser based or native applications on mobile devices or emulators.
  • Anticipate the true user experience with performance testing that simulates realistic scenarios across multiple devices, network bandwidths, and geographic location combinations at scale.
  • Record test scripts from a PC, an emulator or a mobile device
  • Record and simulate a variety of mobile browsers on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BlackBerry
  • Simulate latency, packet drops, and mobile bandwidth speeds such as GPRS, 3G, and 4G
  • Model network connections for phone standards like GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+, and LTE
• Rich reporting and analysis
  • Diagnostics and trending reports quickly detect, isolate and resolve the root cause of performance problems.
  • Report detailed response timer statistics to detect performance
  • Trend reporting monitors user experience on run time
  • Customize scripts with session-dependent data to simulate real world user behavior
  • Pinpoint bottlenecks at the client-side web page component and network level
  • Monitor server statistics and automatically correlate data with load test results
  • Identify potential code optimizations such as compression, caching, and redirect minimization for web applications\
  • Understand errors from the user’s perspective, such as incorrect response, missed timer threshold, or system error
• Network emulation
  • Simulates a variety of wired, wireless and mobile network technologies.
  • Measure the impact of different network conditions like poor antenna signal, high latency on long distance connections, and reduced transfer rates.
  • Use Silk Performer to calculate packet drop rate and latency, and develop mobile bandwidth profiles for phone standards like 3G, HSPA+ and LTE.
• Unlimited scalability from the Cloud
  • Simulates any size peak-loads from multiple geographies without the need to invest in costly load testing hardware and setup.
  • Simulate any size peak-load from the Cloud for your non-web enterprise applications including SAPGUI, Oracle, and Citrix. Use the built-in VPN to securely test applications behind a firewall.
• Test your applications across a variety of platforms
  • Ensure that your applications can perform across various mobile devices with mobile performance testing. Silk Performer fully supports performance testing for mobile web and native applications. Profiles for all popular mobile devices, application types, and connection speeds are featured in Silk Performer. Performance test mobile applications on a variety of mobile phones and network speeds, including Android, iOS, BlackBerry, GPRS, EDGE, HSPA+, and LTE.
  • Silk Performer mobile testing also features:
    • Recording mobile browsers: Record native applications on mobile devices to directly and accurately record traffic from a smartphone. Silk Performer provides free choice for recording mobile scenarios without physical devices for replaying simulations.
    • Mobile bandwidth simulation: Understand your end users’ experiences whether users access your applications on fast or slow connections. Simulate mobile network connections with pre-defined profiles for phone standards like GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, HSPA+, and LTE.
    • Load simulation in the cloud: Simulate massive traffic of mobile devices from global locations. Understand global differences in response times, latency, and impact on existing applications to ensure exceptional user experience without costly setup and hardware.
• Silk Performer supports Enterprise applications
  • Citrix: Integration with Citrix provides unique end user-focused Citrix support. Non-intrusive optical character recognition is used to capture and validate objects on screen while visual replay shows exactly what happened when a failure occurred.
  • SAP: Certified integration with SAP NetWeaver enables you to assess the performance of your systems and detect performance issues quickly and easily. Enable SAP to perform at the level needed for your business.
  • Oracle: Silk Performer ensures that your Oracle enterprise applications are still scalable, reliable, and can perform. Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, or applications built on Oracle Forms and Oracle ADF are all supported.
  • BMC Remedy: Silk Performer provides comprehensive testing coverage for all aspects of your BMC Remedy web environment. Support for Remedy BackChannel API ensures that tests are accurate, repeatable, and quick to implement.
  • Mainframe: Quickly resolve performance issues by simulating thousands of 'green screen' or terminal application users. Supported terminal applications include VT100, VT200 (UNIX, IBM,AS400), and IBM mainframes accessed via TN3270(E) and TN5250.