This section explains the basic concepts of
Silk Central, including the basic workflow, the available assets, and what they are used for.
Workflow Silk Central's test management workflow consists of four major activities: Defining requirements, designing tests, execution planning
and executing tests, tracking and analyzing test results.
Requirements A requirement is a condition or capability that a user needs to achieve a specific task, which must be met by the application
under test (AUT).
Tests A test, or test case, is a set of input values, execution preconditions, expected results and execution postconditions, developed
for a particular objective or test condition, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a
specific requirement [after IEEE 610].
Execution Planning The Execution Planning area enables you to maintain control over test executions during development and testing. This includes activities like configuring
execution plans, scheduling execution plans, assigning tests to execution plans, setting up execution plan dependencies, configuring
execution-server deployment, and configuring dynamic hardware-provisioning with keywords.