OpenText Silk Test vs ReadyAPI comparison

OpenText and SmartBear are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. OpenText is ranked #19 with an average rating of 8.0, while SmartBear is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.5. OpenText holds a 1.0% mindshare in FT, compared to SmartBear’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

OpenText Silk Test

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93% willing to recommend

ReadyAPI

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86% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

OpenText Silk Test and ReadyAPI compete in the software testing tools category. ReadyAPI has the upper hand due to its advanced API testing features and seamless integration.

Features: OpenText Silk Test offers robust testing for web, mobile, and desktop applications, focusing on scalability and reusability. Its powerful 4Test language allows scripting using Java or C#. It provides strong cross-browser testing capabilities. ReadyAPI excels in API testing with features like integration with CI/CD tools, user-friendly test case creation, and advanced load testing capabilities.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Silk Test can improve its deployment process to be more user-friendly and could enhance its testing features for modern web technologies. Its support for cloud environments needs expansion. ReadyAPI could benefit from better performance testing capabilities and refining its scripting flexibility. Some users would prefer a more intuitive interface and enhanced support for complex testing scenarios.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ReadyAPI facilitates deployment with minimal downtime and offers excellent customer support, enabling quick setup and problem resolution. OpenText Silk Test, while effective, has a more complex deployment process and provides good support but requires more learning time for new users.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Silk Test is cost-effective for initial investments, appealing to budget-conscious buyers. However, its ROI may be slower due to its broader applicability. ReadyAPI, with higher initial costs, offers strong ROI through its specialized API testing capabilities, making it ideal for clients seeking comprehensive feature depth.

To learn more, read our detailed OpenText Silk Test vs. ReadyAPI Report (Updated: January 2025).

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OpenText Silk Test vs. ReadyAPI

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText Silk Test

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

19th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Regression Testing Tools (9th), Test Automation Tools (21st)

ReadyAPI

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

15th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Silk Test is 1.0%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReadyAPI is 1.4%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools

Featured Reviews

SrinivasPakala

Director Consulting Expert at Cgi Deutschland KG

Stable, with good statistics and detailed reporting available

While we are performance testing the engineering key, we need to come up with load strategies to commence the test. We'll help to monitor the test, and afterward, we'll help to make all the outcomes, and if they are new, we'll do lots and lots of interpretation and analysis across various servers, to look at response times, and impact. For example, whatever the observations we had during the test, we need to implement it. We'll have to help to catch what exactly is the issues were, and we'll help to see how they can be reduced. Everything is very manual. It's up to us to find out exactly what the issues are. The solution needs better monitoring, especially of CPU.

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SandeepSingh9

Sr. QA Engineer at Arizona Department of Education

Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper

One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The statistics that are available are very good."

"The major thing it has helped with is to reduce the workload on testing activities."

"Scripting is the most valuable. We are able to record and then go in and modify the script that it creates. It has a lot of generative scripts."

"The feature I like most is the ease of reporting."

"The scalability of the solution is quite good. You can easily expand the product if you need to."

"The ability to develop scripts in Visual Studio, Visual Studio integration, is the most valuable feature."

"A good automation tool that supports SAP functional testing."

"It's easy to automate and accelerate testing."

"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities."

"Reporting is more robust than other products because test reports can be exported in multiple ways."

"The feature that allows you to import an API collection or a project is valuable."

"The great thing about ReadyAPI is that it has a wide variety of functions. You can test any API that you come across. You are not limited to one type of API. It supports many APIs."

"It's great for those that don't have as much exposure to programming."

"The most valuable feature is being able to run each version for test suites."

"ReadyAPI's best features are that it's user-friendly and its behavior-driven development is flexible."

"ReadyAPI enhances my workflows by allowing us to use Docker containers based on the ReadyAPI test runner."

Cons

"The pricing could be improved."

"The pricing is an issue, the program is very expensive. That is something that can improve."

"The solution has a lack of compatibility with newer technologies."

"We moved to Ranorex because the solution did not easily scale, and we could not find good and short term third-party help. We needed to have a bigger pool of third-party contractors that we could draw on for specific implementations. Silk didn't have that, and we found what we needed for Ranorex here in the Houston area. It would be good if there is more community support. I don't know if Silk runs a user conference once a year and how they set up partners. We need to be able to talk to somebody more than just on the phone. It really comes right down to that. The generated automated script was highly dependent upon screen position and other keys that were not as robust as we wanted. We found the automated script generated by Ranorex and the other key information about a specific data point to be more robust. It handled the transition better when we moved from computer to computer and from one size of the application to the other size. When we restarted Silk, we typically had to recalibrate screen elements within the script. Ranorex also has some of these same issues, but when we restart, it typically is faster, which is important."

"They should extend some of the functions that are a bit clunky and improve the integration."

"The support for automation with iOS applications can be better."

"Everything is very manual. It's up to us to find out exactly what the issues are."

"Could be more user-friendly on the installation and configuration side."

"It is challenging doing upgrades and patches because sometimes the environmental variables or suits in the projects get erased."

"Performance and memory management both need to be improved because other solutions use less memory for the same amount of data."

"The Property Transfer capability could be more user friendly because it is a bit difficult to understand."

"What needs improvement in ReadyAPI is its load testing feature because there was a hiccup when my team performed some load testing on the tool. My team had meetings with the ReadyAPI team and tried to get that issue fixed, but it still hasn't improved. This is a shortcoming of the tool, especially when you compare it with HP LoadRunner."

"The reporting is not very robust and needs to be improved."

"There are lots of options within the solution, however they are not upfront or user-friendly."

"ReadyAPI could improve by having dynamic validation information."

"Currently, we don't extensively use the performance testing due to license costs. License prices can be a factor in considering which technologies to adopt."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We paid annually. There is a purchase cost, and then there is an ongoing maintenance fee."

"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis, and while I think that the price is quite reasonable I am not allowed to share those details."

"It costs approximately $200 000 Taiwan Dollars for three years."

"We pay $3,000 annually for a floating license. actually. That allows another person from my company to use it as well. It's a cloud-based license."

"We use fixed licenses, and the last time I checked, I want to say it's around $680 per seat per year."

"It is expensive. Each user needs to be licensed, and there are different licenses within the product. It starts with 750 euros for a single user per year, but for the full product features, you need to pay a lot more. There are three versions. This cost is for functional testing, and then there is a cost for load testing and virtual services. If you want to use these areas with the functional test license, you are limited. You hit some limits in these functions. If you have all three licenses, then you have full functionality for the API."

"The solution is dynamically priced so you only pay for what you use."

"The price was around $6,000 for one license, but I don't remember exactly. It is definitely expensive. Our organization was planning on having multiple licenses for this year."

"For each license, they charge the same amount, which is less than $1,000 for each desktop license."

"The price of the solution has been fine."

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Insurance Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Silk Test?

The pricing depends on the license used. The pricing is similar to others in the market.

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What needs improvement with Silk Test?

The pricing could be improved.

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What is your primary use case for Silk Test?

The product is used for manual, functional, and performance testing. I'm using the tool for loading data into ERP systems.

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What do you like most about ReadyAPI?

The performance testing capabilities are very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ReadyAPI?

The pricing of ReadyAPI is reasonable, considering its functionality compared to other tools in the market. However, I recommend open-source solutions for small-scale industries due to lower costs.

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What needs improvement with ReadyAPI?

Based on my experience, ReadyAPI could improve by simplifying the process of scripting. The automation features require extensive Groovy scripting, which is cumbersome compared to JMeter's regular ...

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Also Known As

Segue, SilkTest, Micro Focus Silk Test

Ready API

Overview

SilkTest is robust and portable test automation for web, native, and enterprise software applications. Silk Test's portability enables users to test applications more effectively with lower complexity and cost in comparison to other functional testing tools on the market. Silk Test's role based testing enables business stakeholders, QA engineers, and developers to contribute to the whole automation testing process, which drives collaboration and increases the effectiveness of software testing.

OpenText

ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.

ReadyAPI Features

Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:

Continuous integration
Comprehensive dashboard
API discovery
Central, standardized reporting function
Plugin architecture
ReadyAPI Projects
Multiple options for scripting to create functional, load, or security tests

ReadyAPI Benefits

Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:

Easy and flexible test creation and execution: ReadyAPI has visual editors and wizards that make testing easy, saving time and simplifying onboarding.
Test APIs continuously: With ReadyAPI you can run consistent tests on local environments, Docker containers, or other distributed staging environments.
Team friendly: ReadyAPI enables software teams with the ability to easily share testing projects and artifacts, share licenses between team members, and report issues directly from the testing IDE.
Powerful, data-driven testing capabilities: With ReadyAPI, you can save time by checking for numerous real world conditions.
Supports multiple specifications, schemas, and protocols: ReadyAPI includes legacy SOAP services, microservices powered by Apache Kafka, and mainstream REST services, as well as IoT use cases leveraging MQTT. It allows you to test and virtualize the most popular API protocols and also to import APIs from specifications and schemas instantly.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.

PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”

An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."

Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.

They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”

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Krung Thai Computer Services, Quality Kiosk, Mªller, AVG Technologies

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