OpenText Silk Central vs Parasoft Development Testing Platform comparison

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We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and Parasoft Development Testing Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."

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"The most valuable feature is code coverage.""It really helps developers execute scenarios through DTP and share reports/results across the teams."

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"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."

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"The solution's speed has room for improvement.""Parallel execution: It would help it multiple executions could be done at the same time."

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Top Answer:The most valuable feature is code coverage.
Top Answer:The solution's speed has room for improvement.
Top Answer:We use the Parasoft Development Testing Platform to verify code coverage for static analysis in our unit tests.
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Also Known As
Micro Focus Silk Central, Borland Silk Central, Silk Central
Parasoft Concerto, Parasoft DTP
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Overview
Silk Central is an open test management solution which unifies all test assets into one easy-to-use planning, tracking, reporting and execution hub. Silk Central enables you to gain control, collaboration and traceability across all areas of your software testing, whether your methodology is Agile, Traditional or hybrid. Silk Central provides integration of requirements, manual and automated tests, defect tools and your test execution, giving full traceability of the quality of your software testing regardless of role.

Parasoft DTP aggregates the results from across testing practices, providing intelligent and continuous monitoring of the testing outcomes for greater visibility into what is working — and what isn’t.  Includes:

- Comprehensive Reports & Dashboards

- Preconfigured compliance reporting

- Customized Advanced Analytics

- Interactive Navigation of Results

- Traceability

Sample Customers
AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University
General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm, AAI Textron, Boeing, Fidelity, Johnson & Johnson, CIBC, Penske, Thales, Dell, 
Top Industries
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Computer Software Company25%
Financial Services Firm25%
Transportation Company25%
Manufacturing Company13%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Computer Software Company22%
Energy/Utilities Company18%
Financial Services Firm14%
Real Estate/Law Firm8%
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Midsize Enterprise30%
Large Enterprise70%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business22%
Midsize Enterprise8%
Large Enterprise71%
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OpenText Silk Central is ranked 21st in Test Management Tools while Parasoft Development Testing Platform is ranked 18th in Test Management Tools with 4 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while Parasoft Development Testing Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft Development Testing Platform writes "Provides 100 percent code coverage, is stable, and scalable". OpenText Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas Parasoft Development Testing Platform is most compared with Codebeamer.

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