# OpenText Silk Performer Reviews **Vendor:** OpenText **Category:** [Load Testing Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/load-testing-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 28 ## About OpenText Silk Performer Micro Focus Silk Performer (formerly Borland Silk Performer) is designed to deliver a consistent user experience anytime, anywhere, and on any device. ## OpenText Silk Performer Reviews ### 1. For flawless performance testing! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 23, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** I like the ease it provides for cloud integration and to use on all platforms web or mobile! It is a complete solution for load and stress testing. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Silk performer is tool that can be easy to learn but difficult to master if you are a beginner at performance testing. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have solved the problems of bottleneck state of applications when maximum users are using it at the same time. For mobile how the apps behave on slow networks or how gracefully it can recover from crashes. Also to integrate the application on different platforms and servers. ### 2. Heavy Automation Testing Solution with easy accessible Functions. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Debra m. | Network Technician, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Application analyzation and the ability the tool offers to the user on easy launching of any required size peak load functionality testing. The Test building using Micro Focus Silk Performer is easy and efficient, which helps on quality and production improvement. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** My opinion is that the tool is amazing, easy to configure, and it has a very short learning curve and you are ready to go. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Best Automation product which comes with a professional interface and all its features are friendly when learning, and great data analytics solution. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy process providing Application analysis. The Testing experience is fantastic. ### 3. Highly recommend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** abirami s. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Easy to install Simple UI Supports various protocols like web, web services, java, .net, and TE. Like LR the tool provides easier record and playback and correlation functions. Provides reports to analyze the results in depth. Helped in internal training to teams Helps to learn scripts **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** No auto correlation function as in LR, Needs in depth training which is hard to find on internet, One has to master NFT and the tool to use the tool effectively Hard to find manuals online **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Could be better if we could find any in depth training to the tool and certifications **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were trying to dig in and explore how Silk performer would help in replacing LR tool. After a deep and thorough study, we trained our co associates on the tool and its functions. ### 4. 20 Plus years using Silk Performer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael J. | CEO **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** For protocol testing it's been great. I'm familar with the tool. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** The browser based testing lacks a lot of power. 15 users per/agent is terrible. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Site validation, consistency and just a plan solid tool that I've been using for years. ### 5. Micro Focus Silk Performer tool review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh H. | Test Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Like LR, silk performer provides various types of projects ex: web, web services,terminal emulator, CRM, Java, mobile, .net, database etc., It is easy to record and play and find the correlations where it'd be necessary. Depth of report provided has low level details which gives good amount of insights. We can execute as standalone and no need to worry on slots like load runner in the disturbed environment. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Scripting initially was tough and many functions looks similar but it's difficult to assess which would be right one. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a issue while posting to mq for one of our Java project. We seeked help from micro Focus and found that default size of heap was insufficient and modified the heap size, so that we could execute. ### 6. Smart, concise, easy to script and report tool for performance testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranav V. | Project Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** The UI for Silk performer is one of the best in market and makes the experience of using it smooth and easy. The intuitive nature of the menu and options make it easy to explore and understand features of the tool **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Not a lot to dislike to be honest. But some more pre made scripts and examples could be of help **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basic problem was of load testing and measuring throughput of the website that we had made. The tool helped us through that nicely and its usage of work load mixes really helped us target the performance tuning for the application ### 7. 5 years of experience with silk performer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rushikesh M. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** We have used Silk performer for recording a web based UI, mobile devices, windows applications, terminal based systems. I also like scripting through BDL even for selenium like use cases. Support team of MicroFocus has been very helpful to us. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** With respect to reports we have seen some challenges. We had to create our own reports by extracting transaction details post load test. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used Silk performer for recording a web based UI, mobile devices, windows applications, terminal based systems for stress testing products of various banking customers. We have created many testing automations using Silk Performer scripts. ### 8. Informative, easy to use, time savior ! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Indranil G. | Software Engineer in Performance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Silk Performer is one the easiest to use Load Testing tools with a clear description of rhe workflow that needs to happen in order to begin your performance testing. There are a variety of features that makes it possible even for a novice to execute performance tests with ease without having to worry about a majority of areas that they would with the open source tools. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** The coverage of support on some of the errors that you encounter in advanced scenarios could be improved. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Day to day Load, stress, performance testing activities for various clients and application. ### 9. User friendly UI and easy to use. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Silk Performer is very helpful in creating the scripts as per business requirements and the best use-case for me is the statistics of web-page in Truelog explorer which helps to easy drill down to time consuming requests. The upside of this tool is the UI which is easy and fast to understand and get use to i quickly. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** The should be auto correlation option available which can help save time in script enhancements. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time taking requests while loading a web-page, testing application as per real life workload and analyze server behavior to the load and provide recommendations to the stakeholders. The benifit of using Silk performer is it pin-points to the pain areas in the application and helps to fix the same after re-testing. ### 10. Microfocus Silk Performance tool is very user-friendly and easy to start with tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mangesh k. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Best thing about tool is you no need to be developer, any fresher can start with it and excel very quickly. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Designing real world peak load test scenario is not that much straight forward, needs lot of brainstorming. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Anyone must think of Microfocus Silk performer option along with other market leading tools as this tool provides many specifications at low cost. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It supports multiple protocol and combining those in one script is possible and very much helpful to us. ### 11. Micro focus silk performer is performing well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** MFSP is one of the best tool for performance testing and load testing as it provides better handler to automate the testing **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** The only thing that MFSP is lacking behind is for its education material availability on online platforms. They need to put more case studies for people to understand the implementation and use of tool for different ERP **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Get a case study reviewed first and take deep dive before hand prior commitment to client **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We tested the performance of oracle ERP implementation with one of our client in Singapore. The tools most beneficial feature is the ease of managing the load implement during testing ### 12. The Tool is good, I use it for performance testing. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zoltán D. | Automation Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** It's easy to use and understand. Of course you need, to have a tutorial and a basic learning phase. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Sometimes if I do a bigger stress or load test, the stopped working. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** If you want to do some Performance Testing, this tool is perfect. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I worked in a project, where I fulfill the performance tester role and there I used it. ### 13. Good tool for web performance test **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Easy to write scripts and well result report **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** No ways to debug specific a part of test scripts **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** If want to do web performance test then Silk Performer is a good choice **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Measure Web performance and compare results releases over releases ### 14. Perform load and stress testing without checking the hardware. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vivek P. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** It helps to monitor the site behaviour and the request. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** If more number of requests are in the performance will bit slow but the metrics is accurate. **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** It's a very good tool for monitoring and the output will be accurate **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monitoring the site performance and time consuming process ### 15. Jackson crasto **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** It is very easy tool to learn and performance test.Also cheap in license.It has better host per license.The license can be imported anywhere **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** More interactive results like loadrunner should be present **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Improve your tools to support on Cloud Protocols, Better interactive results etc **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Some protocol like Citrix is not very well supported.there should be better tool support.More support from Microfocus should be expected ### 16. Good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul S. | Sr Performance Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Only 1 component consists of all Scripting, Execution and Reporting **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Complexity as comapre to other tool, Not much support available over internet. For everything we need to write customized code **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting section is good and better. ### 17. User friendly tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Silk Test tool provides you writing your test scenarios, running them and reporting them **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** The should be auto correlation option available which can help save time in script enhancements **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is very helpful for mobile application testing. I used this in my project and it helps me to test complete application in very less time ### 18. Good Product and Support **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohit K. | Performance Test Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Timely response with full client support **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** GUI interface needs to be improved and inbuilt functions for various operations **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** JMS Messaging Performance optimization ### 19. Great experience in using Silk performer for NFR'S **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Ease of tool Non techincal person can use very easily Peforms load and stress testing easily Able to check and detect all traffic in terms of API etc **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** License cost is high as compared to other similar tools **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Yes **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Load and stress testing It was able to capture entire page response and API. Was able to detect the bottlenecks ### 20. QA Manager with excellent knowledge of Automation and Performance testing **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Has everything which needs to be there from Performance testing perspective **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** I did not dislike any specific area but programming language (BDL) was not user friendly. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance testing of a retail chain in USA and to measure various performance characteristics. Got good knowledge of modules/scenarios which are taking more time than expected by client. ### 21. Microfocus silk performer **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** I liked the way it is user friendly. We started using it recently but we got used to it fastly that we are able to work with it **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Nothing much to dislike. Initially it was difficult to learn. Then it became very easy **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using to monitor the performance and understand the bottlenecks ### 22. Good exposure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Dispute Resolution | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Great things that come up with good package where it help a lot in the career **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** As such nothing Negative about the course **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Good to use **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Requiment specify task easy to solve with Micro Focus Silk it gives you the exposure ### 23. Silk Performer Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 07, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Ease of creating test script, scaling and debugging capability **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** CI/CD integration. Integration with pipeline **Recommendations to others considering OpenText Silk Performer:** Yes. Could fit in to requirements **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance evaluation of large back end ### 24. GUI is aweaome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** GUI Easy access And clear options with editing and suggestions **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** It will take lot of time to open, need to work on that **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy testing and faster reuse Performance testing to reduce the burden of script duplication ### 25. A robust performance testing tool with outstanding capabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Sharpens your coding skills while scripting **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Intermittent instability during load tests, with crash.Not that frequent though. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** No limits to dynamic maintenance/ creation of test scripts which sometimes is not possible with many other user-friendly tools ### 26. Effective tool to record and simulate the application s transactions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Application synthetic transactions recording **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Please include the webdriven browser approach for all browsers **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application end user synthetic monitoring ### 27. Anand Janga **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** Scripting execution and reporting is very user **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** Assigning of load generators, IP spoofing **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Correlation parameters ### 28. Silkperformer is very easy to use and provides accurate results **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2019 **What do you like best about OpenText Silk Performer?** 1. The recording engine is very easy to use and generates reliable performance testing scripts. 2.Reports are easy to understand and are feature rich? 3. Protocol support is comprehensive. **What do you dislike about OpenText Silk Performer?** 1. I feel the documentation and examples could be improved. 2. Integration with CI/CD pipelines could be improved. **What problems is OpenText Silk Performer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We generate load tests with silk performer and have created automated performance tests triggered via jenkins. ## OpenText Silk Performer Discussions - [What is silk monitoring?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-silk-monitoring) - [What is Silk performance testing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-silk-performance-testing) - [What language does Silk Performer use?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-language-does-silk-performer-use) - [Is Silk Performer a performance testing tool?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-silk-performer-a-performance-testing-tool) - [Any added features that it differeciates with Microfocus Loadrunner](https://www.g2.com/discussions/34733-any-added-features-that-it-differeciates-with-microfocus-loadrunner) - 1 upvote - [View OpenText Silk Performer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/opentext-silk-performer/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-25+15%3A11%3A34+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e992a5f9-5b24-4289-9436-a85b726f2c3a&secure%5Btoken%5D=99676c41082a7e063c6a85e202ef72c5e220db2c4c572bc8254144ba1d14dbf2&format=llm_user) ## OpenText Silk Performer Features **Functionality** - Stress Testing - Extreme Cases - Test Variety **Reporting** - Reporting ## Top OpenText Silk Performer Alternatives - [Apache JMeter](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-jmeter/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (151 reviews) - [BrowserStack](https://www.g2.com/products/browserstack/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (3,258 reviews) - [SOAPUI](https://www.g2.com/products/soapui/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (135 reviews)