OpenText Silk Test Scalability

SB
Director of Engineering at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

We had one specific large scale job on which we needed to have automated tests. We had 24,000 test cases, which were too much to do in a timely way by hand. We got Silk Test set up, and it ran. We wanted to run other 24,000 general test cases, but we didn't find cloning to be as effective as we would have wanted. It was easier with Ranorex. That might have been because we were able to hire a third-party consultant to come in for three weeks and get that kicked off for us, where we couldn't find that help with Silk. 

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MM
IT Service Delivery Manager Testing and RPA at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is quite scalable and this has to do with the licensing. It is not a tedious process.

We use this solution internally with the IT team, of which there are twelve to fifteen members. They perform all of the necessary actions and changes, and the reports will be shared globally with the top management.

We do plan to increase our usage. Just recently we procured an additional twenty-four licenses and have seen the benefits. In the future, I foresee that we may purchase licenses for an additional thirty users.

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SB
Manager QA at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable because it has a lot of other capabilities as well, which I haven't used. It is perfectly good for other web applications. On the Salesforce side, I do have a requirement but I am yet to explore how much Silk Test supports automating Salesforce. There are five people in my team who use this solution. 

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CA
IT Programme Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of the solution is quite good. You can easily expand the product if you need to.

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RA
Director at Traydaht ltd

Adding users into the database is straightforward. There are local limits that have to be managed which means you have to have a centrally deployed database. We have around ten users using this solution. They're all professional test automators. 

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it_user739686 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

This was not the case for the short time we'd used this.

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AK
Solutions Architect at Mweb

We currently have 23 users who are all quality control testers, and I believe the program is fairly simple to scale.

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it_user345987 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Lead at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Less issues with the Classic agent, but with the Open one we have faced some issue.

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it_user369150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Test Analyst at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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SB
Test Automation Project Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We've had no issues with scalability.

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