Features

Simulate true user experience

Don't wait for bad reviews or lost sales before finding and fixing problems. Use shift right testing to focus on client side application performance and functionality and synthetic monitoring to measure the user experience in a controlled environment. Analyze usage, then define the transaction variables for test simulation, including browser, device, network bandwidth, and geographic location.

Maintain test consistency

Tests designed and created in pre-production can be rolled into product monitoring to ensure all teams are working from the same baseline. Simply deploy Silk Performer® load test scripts or Silk Test® GUI functional test scripts in Performance Manager as business transaction monitors. Use performance metrics from pre-production load tests as SLAs for monitoring applications while in production.

Proactive quality assurance

Silk Performance Manager tests in pre-defined intervals to detect the patterns that identify performance problems or errors. Dev and QA teams get rapid feedback from the web service API that automatically sends test results and log data to operations tools. SNMP interfaces notify service management of excessive response times.

Rich reporting and notification

Quickly detect, isolate and uncover performance and functionality problems using powerful diagnostics and comprehensive trend reporting. Proactively trace application behavior and record detailed response time statistics to detect and correct application issues before they impact customer experience.

Automated testing from dev to ops

The demand for faster innovation is squeezing development teams caught between accelerated delivery and increased application complexity. Test teams using the Silk® portfolio can incorporate load and functional test automation to increase reliability of across the entire continuous delivery pipeline, to avoid the speed vs quality tradeoffs.