Silk Performer

Micro Focus Silk Performer is a proven, easy-to-use load and stress testing solution for optimizing business application performance. Accurate, realistic tests are easy to create, providing a simulation of as many users as needed, in a range of enterprise environments and platforms. The tests isolate issues and bottlenecks that could impact reliability, performance, and scalability. Intuitive diagnostic and analysis tools help resolve issues quickly, reducing test-and-fix cycles and accelerating time-to-market. To reduce costs further and increase testing for more people, Silk Performer removes the usage restrictions common in other solutions.

Highlights:

  • Reduce Costs & the Risks of Performance-Related Failures
  • Efficient Test Creation and Test Cycles
  • Easy, Full Spectrum Support for the Latest Web Environments
  • Agile & Shift-Left Testing
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Measure ‘Perceived’ Loading Times
  • HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)
  • IPv6 Testing
  • Testing Web and Native Apps for Mobile Devices
  • Network Emulation
  • Realistic, Lightweight & Accurate Simulation
  • Peak Loads with CloudBurst
  • Problem Isolation & Correction
  • Client-Side Diagnostics
  • Server-Side Diagnostics
  • Performance Trend Dashboard with Silk Central
  • Reuse Script Assets for Synthetic Monitoring
  • Diagnostics for Java & .NET Applications

Technical Specification:

Operating System Support:

  • Windows Server, 2012, 2012 R2, 2016
  • Windows 10 Windows 8 & 8.1 Windows 7

Packaged Applications (CRM/ERP):

  • Remedy ARS Web
  • SAP
  • PeopleSoft
  • Siebel
  • Oracle Applications
  • Oracle Forms

Real-Time Server Monitors:

  • Windows and UNIX system/network counters
  • JMX
  • SNMP
  • Microsoft IIS
  • Apache
  • IBM WebSphere
  • WebLogic
  • iBoss
  • Oracle
  • SAP
  • VMware
  • IBM DB2
  • Microsoft SQL Server

Protocols and Interfaces for Load Testing:

  • HTTP(S)/HTML, IPv6, Ajax, Silverlight, mobile devices, Java over HTTP, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Adobe Flex/AMF3, Granite DS Flex, Unicode (UTF-8), SOAP (XML), FTP, LDAP, MAPI, IMAP, SMTP/POP, SSL, CORBA (IIOP), Java RMI (EJB/J2EE), .NET Remoting, Oracle Forms, Citrix, VMWare Horizon View, ODBC, Oracle Call Interface (OCI), DB2 CLI, TCP/IP, UDP, Tuxedo ATMI, Jolt, TN3270E, TN5250, T100/200+, and UI-Level (Silk Test, Selenium)

Open Interfaces:

  • .NET Framework
  • Java Framework
  • DLL Interface