Cross-Browser Testing

With Silk4J, you can easily verify the functionality of even the most advanced web application across a variety of browsers, with a single, portable test script. Silk4J provides leading support for effective and maintainable cross-browser testing with modern web technologies.

One of the main challenges in test automation is to create and maintain test cost effectively. As different browsers behave differently, web application validation is hard to carry out productively. Silk4J enables you to focus on writing tests, as it handles the following three areas of cross-browser testing:

Built-in synchronization

This enables you to create scripts that run on all supported browsers, without the need to manually synchronize against asynchronous events, which are typical of highly dynamic web applications such as AJAX, or HTML5. Silk4J supports synchronization modes for HTML or AJAX as well as all major web environments including Apache Flex, Microsoft Silverlight, and HTML5/AJAX. For additional information, see Page Synchronization for xBrowser.

Unified object model

Silk4J enables you to create and maintain a test which runs across a wide range of different browsers. A unified object model across all browsers gives you the ability to focus on a single browser when you create or maintain a test. Silk4J ensures that the object you interact with is accessible in the same way on all the other browsers, which saves time and enables you to focus on testing rather than on finding workarounds for different browsers.

Out-of-the-box recording of a cross-browser script

Record a script once and replay it in all the other browsers, without any modifications. This significantly reduces the time and effort it takes to create and maintain test scripts. Nothing is simulated - testing is carried out across real browsers, which ensures that the test behaves exactly as it does for your end user.

For information about new features, supported platforms, and tested versions, refer to the Release Notes.