Comparisons between Watir and SilkTest

By Tuyet Cong-Ton-Nu, 21 July 2005

Two scripts are being used to do the comparison. --> What type of an app was being tested? Where are the samples of these 2 scripts?

We used the following criteria to compare the two tools:

1. Elapsed time
2. Reliability
3. Maintainability
4. Lines of Code

Each script was run 15 times to get the elapsed time and test out reliability.

Import script	Watir	SilkTest
Lines of Codes	60 lines of code	200+
Elapsed Time (average of 15 runs)	25 seconds	60 seconds
Reliability	No failure when ran 15 times in a row	87% with 15 runs
Maintainability	All changes are readily "seen" via View Source or getHTML command. Compare files can be done and changes can easily be made.	Changes in B1 code require updates to the page declarations. This can take between 10 and 30 minutes.

Analysis/Positions script	Watir	SilkTest
Lines of Codes	105 lines of code	250+
Elapsed Time (average of 15 runs)	52 seconds	120 seconds
Reliability	No failure when ran 15 times in a row	80% with 15 runs
Maintainability	All changes are readily "seen" via View Source or getHTML command. Compare files can be done and changes can easily be made.	Changes in B1 code require updates to the page declarations. This can take between 10 and 30 minutes.