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Web driver version for browsers should update automatically or at click of a button inside Silk Performer

Furquan Ullah

Web driver version for browsers should update automatically or at click of a button inside Silk Performer. As the customer frequently (for security reasons) experiences browsers upgrades, the provided manual workaround is taking time and resources from…
- over 3 years ago
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Allow Folder as Datafile

dbro

The need to specify a datafile forces the projectfile to be edited to change file names. If yo run your tests via SCTM you can specify attributes to change fiilenames to use, without changing any programming. If the datafiles are maintained by other stuff…
- over 3 years ago
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Ability to give Agents a name so that it is easier to find in the Workbench

aborket

Ability to rename the Agent so that from the Workbench you can find/pick an Agent more easily e.g. “Project X Agent”, ‘Agent 1 - Only for X’ ,"Belongs to X do not use"
- over 3 years ago
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Datasource explorer

surie

Have data source explorer like in visual studio for adding databases, csv files and also xml files and other data sources for data driven tests. Also the ability to strip files when data has been used and other parameters like loop back to start at the…
- over 5 years ago
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Data Editor - allow copy and paste from Excel to Performer's Data Editor

surie

You can copy and paste txt file but not Excel.
- over 5 years ago
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Remembering the run number for the results folder

surie

Up to and including SP10 when running a test the new results subfolder would keep track of and increment a Run number. Starting with SP15 the introduction of using the workload name and adding a timestamp to the name of the results folder, the results…
- over 5 years ago
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Ability to keep track of all response time thresholds from all baselines and not just most recent

surie

Ability to keep track of all response time thresholds from all baselines and not just the most recent one in SilkPerfomer. The requirement for this enhancement stems from the business need of being able to create multiple workloads with each workload…
- over 5 years ago
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License server details in Help | About

surie

Have an entry in Help | About showing which license server provides the licenses in the same dialogue. Saves some time checking which server is currently used in the LS config manager.
- over 5 years ago
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Persisting changes to the active profile

surie

I've been convinced by support that adding *jQuery* to: settings / active profile / record / web browser driven / Recording tab so that I end up with something like: CHECKED, DISABLED, style, width, height, size, __*, class, *JQuery* is a good…
- over 5 years ago
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Undo

surie

Can we have Undo feature in the editor ?
- over 5 years ago
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Right click context menu for declaring variables

surie

When coding it would be nice if after typing a new variable you could right click on it and declare it at the top automatically.
- over 5 years ago
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Breakpoint

surie

It would be very much helpful if 'Breakpoint' option is included to debug the script. And also 'Run from step' (feature in UFT) can be implemented to save time by executing/debugging from the middle of test case.
- over 5 years ago
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Export/import user profiles

surie

For our test campaigns we generally reuse same user profiles from project to project. It would be glad to have a small tool allowing to export/import user profiles, allowing to store them out of individual project into a kind of user profiles repository…
- over 5 years ago
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Use relative paths in project files

surie

Currently SIlk Performer stores and searches for data files using absolute paths. I tend to not like cluttering up the root project directory with a ton of stuff so I put all data files that are project specific in a data subdirectory within the root…
- over 5 years ago
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Improvements of SP Workbench Editor

surie

Have been working with scripts with length upto 17 thousands. I would like to suggest few tips for improvement of Silk Performer Workbench Editor, it should not only add lines but should also add features of modern text editors like: Folding a part…
- over 5 years ago
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Project Agents - Check

surie

In Silk Performer 10 and 15 when one checks the project agents the application returns the agents name (or IP address, depending upon how one entered the agent's name); STATUS [OK], the processors on the agent machine, the amount of memory, the OS Version…
- over 5 years ago
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XML editor

surie

When doing parmmeter of an XML script, Silk Performer can't do a good job on changing parameter of the XML.. basically it can't understand XML.
- over 5 years ago
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Collapsible code

surie

Collapsible code like in eclipse where you could collapse if statements and loops to make long scripts more readable.
- over 5 years ago
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Provide breakpoint to debug the scripts

surie

While debugging the scripts we don’t have an option to create breakpoints to stop at a particular place.
- over 5 years ago
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Show the line numbers in the editor window

surie

Line numbers to the left of the source code would be very handy. Almost all IDE have the ability to show the line numbers on one side or the other. Even the UNIX editor vi has the ability to display line numbers. Silk Test also shows line numbers within…
- over 5 years ago
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Web driver version for browsers should update automatically or at click of a button inside Silk Performer

Allow Folder as Datafile

Ability to give Agents a name so that it is easier to find in the Workbench

Datasource explorer

Data Editor - allow copy and paste from Excel to Performer's Data Editor

Remembering the run number for the results folder

Ability to keep track of all response time thresholds from all baselines and not just most recent

License server details in Help | About

Persisting changes to the active profile

Undo

Right click context menu for declaring variables

Breakpoint

Export/import user profiles

Use relative paths in project files

Improvements of SP Workbench Editor

Project Agents - Check

XML editor

Collapsible code

Provide breakpoint to debug the scripts

Show the line numbers in the editor window

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