MicroFocus Acquisitions

Last month Borland was acquired by MicroFocus. Microfocus has acquired Compuware too. Borland and Compuware have similar kind of testing products. By these aquisitions, MicroFocus is the second largest market leading vendor in Testing tools.

Borland Testing tools:

1. SilkTest - Functional Testing
2. SilkPerformer -Performance Testing
3. SilkCentral Test Manager - Test management

Compuware Testing tools:

1. TestPartner - Functional Testing
2. QALoad -Performance Testing
3. QADirector - Test management

Apart from above products, Borland and compuware had other products. See the MicroFocus - Testing ASQ Products for more information.

Automation Tool support

In my first job, I used to automate by using VisualTest. There is no updates, after IBM acquired Rational. In this year, the yahoogroups also removed. VisualTest is a simple and powerful tool. Similarly Segue was acquired by Borland. Initially Borland took much time to set the updates on Silktest and Silkperformer. Later it announced that older versions of Silktest and silkperformer will not have support. Now its time for HP-Mercury.

Yesterday I got a mail from my friend. It said that HP is going to stop support for Winrunner. PDF is available here. There is a solution to migrate winrunner scripts to QuickTestProfessional. It is available at win-quick I donot know how much painful task it is for each company.


The frequent acquisitions are making many questions among to automation engineers.

1. Whether this product will be promoted?
2. Whether the updates will be added frequently as per changing technology?
3. What will happen to future if the product is ended?
4. How will be job market for this particular tool?