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span multiple platorms and confgurations. Test ManagersDHP automatically selects the necessary test servers with theappropriate confguration (e.g. installed client sotware, operatingsystem, CPU/memory) rom an agent cluster or test execution.SilkCentral Test Manager leverages VMware Lab Manager or

multi-confguration and cross-platorm testing. With this nativeintegration, customers can easily create lab environments orvarious stakeholders while reducing costs and improving uptime.

SilkCentral also provides load test resource management tosimpliy the management o perormance testing enterpriseapplications. Through its integration with SilkPerormer - MicroFocuss perormance, load, and stress testing solution - SCTMcan dynamically assign should read SilkPerormer workloads toavailable load test agents.

With Load Test Resource Management, your organization willbeneft rom:

Rapid turnaround on load/perormance tests execution (moretesting in less time)

Simplifed, managed control o perormance test environments

Efcient management o virtual users pools across multiple

projects and teams

AGILE TEST MANAGEMENT

SilkCentral Test Manager is optimized specifcally or the testingo both Agile and Traditional projects. Silk addresses the needs oAgile testing by increasing the speed o test execution and teamcollaboration on quality assurance activities. Also, SilkCentralhas a deep integration with VersionOne and Rally, the leadersin Agile project management. The integration with Test Manager

extends its user-story management capabilities with a powerultesting component that brings both test result and statusinormation to Rally and VersionOne.

QUALITY METRICS FOR SOFTWARE DELIVERY

SilkCentral Test Manager ensures that your organization will

release high quality, multi-platorm applications with confdencethrough:

Custom dashboards and reports with cross project, quality

metrics that allow management to make inormed, go/no-go

decisions

Context Sensitive Reports based on Current In Flight User

Activities - dynamically generate one-click reports specifc to

requirements, test plans, and test plan execution

Micro Focuss code coverage technology links tests with codethey actually touch, enabling better choices on what to test and

revolutionizing the decision process or tests to modiy due tocode changes

Trending and analysis data to track the progress o all quality

initiatives across multiple teams, technologies, and platormsacross a global computing environment

BUSINESS CHALLENGE

Managing QA testing or a large IT organization involves manychallenges, but the most basic one is to collect the inormation youneed to control all aspects o a complex testing process. QA teams

requently lack visibility into what is being tested, the actual testresults, the nature o the business requirements driving testing andthe coverage o testing requirements created during the process.

PRODUCT OVERVIEW

SilkCentral Test Manager (SCTM) is the leading solution orshops that undertake both Agile and Traditional projects. SCTMprovides a unifed ramework or managing manual, unctional,and automated perormance activities, by providing visibility intothe eectiveness o testing activities across distributed projects.SCTM protects existing investments by embracing existing unit,unctional and perormance test suites - with no rip and replace.SilkCentral can aggregate existing test results, whether they are

perl scripts, batch fles or rom a home-grown testing tool, andprovide consolidated project metrics across the SDLC.

KEY BENEFITS

SilkCentral Test Manager provides the ollowing benefts:

Allows existing test assets to be managed under a unifed test

management ramework

Eliminates re-work associated with project changes and exploits

test asset reuse across the team

Integrates and aggregates test results rom existing test

rameworks and tools

Provides a single investment that will sustain a quality program

across all projects and teamsIncreases efciency and reduces costs through native support oVMware Lab Manager

Enables live, quality monitoring o Agile and Traditional projectactivities or co-located and globally distributed teams

Improves manual testing with a simple, scalable Manual TestClient that guides testers through the process and assures

consistent, repeatable data collection and reporting

Delivers advanced reporting, including project status,

requirements and test coverage, quality trends, milestones, test

type and deect trends

DETAILED FEATURE OVERVIEW

REAL-TIME QUALITY MONITORING OF ALL TESTINGACTIVITIES

SilkCentral Test Manager provides visibility o all testing activities,whether teams are co-located or distributed across the globe.All testing activities are monitored real-time, which providestransparency across the organization and osters live collaborationor cross project activities.

POWERFUL LAB MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENTERPRISE

SilkCentral Test Managers Dynamic Hardware Provisioning(DHP) technology makes it easier or large, distributedorganizations to manage their test environments which can

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SUPPORTED ENVIRONMENTS

Operating System

Windows XP with Service Pack 2Windows XP 64bit with Service Pack 1(execution server only)Windows Server 2003 with Service Pack 2Windows Server 2008 32 bitWindows Vista Ultimate 32-Bit (executionserver only)

Localized versions of Windows 2000 andWindows XP (Simplified Chinese)

Borland is the leading vendor of Open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solutions - open to customers processes, tools and platforms - providing the flexibilityto manage, measure and improve the software delivery process.

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PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Linux Operating System (Execution ServerOnly)

Ubuntu 8.10Ubuntu 8 serverRed Hat Enterprise Linux 5Debian 4 Etch 4.1.2-23 SSuse Linux 9.1

Database

Microsoft SQLServer 2005 with Service Pack 3Microsoft SQLServer 2008Oracle 9i (9.2.0.8)Oracle 10g (10.2.0.4)

Browser

Internet Explorer 7.xInternet Explorer 8.xFirefox 3.x

Web server

IIS 6IIS 7Micro Focus standalone Web server (Tomcat)

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