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OpenText Silk Central vs TestRail comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
1.0
OpenText Silk Central enhances test management, project visibility, and collaboration, leading to reduced costs, faster delivery, and higher productivity.
Sentiment score
3.3
TestRail improved productivity, collaboration, and accuracy in test management, providing valuable reporting, integrations, and an intuitive interface for users.
Time-wise, it saves about fifteen to twenty percent compared to Excel, and money-wise, it's around ten percent.
Test Architect at Zest Consulting
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.3
OpenText Silk Central is praised for its responsive, knowledgeable customer service, efficient technical support, and quick response times.
Sentiment score
3.3
TestRail offers responsive support, but complex issues often require improved service, with users favoring self-service resources and community help.
Sometimes, you really need to speak to a person, and arranging such calls is not easy.
Test Architect at Zest Consulting
I personally escalate Leapwork issues with the Leapwork support tech team, and they are very quick to solve problems.
Automation Test Engineer Il at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Just today we had a hiccup where it didn't want to integrate with Jira.
Release and Test Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
1.0
OpenText Silk Central is praised for scalability, flexibility, robust performance, supporting diverse projects, extensive collaboration, and seamless system integration.
Sentiment score
7.0
TestRail offers robust scalability and stability, handling varied team sizes effectively, though user monitoring improvements are noted.
When I started automation testing in my current company, we only had 10-20 automated test cases integrated with TestRail, but we gradually increased to 100, 200, 1000, and 2000 cases.
Automation Test Engineer Il at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
It also doesn't have the analytics and dashboards that you need for large scale enterprise implementations, which is why it's not really scalable.
Release and Test Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I have never experienced any issues with its scalability.
Test Architect at Zest Consulting
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
1.0
OpenText Silk Central is reliable, handles extensive workloads, scales with business growth, and provides stable performance with minimal downtime.
Sentiment score
5.9
TestRail is highly praised for its stability, with users experiencing rare, quickly resolved issues and consistently rating it highly.
It has never had any issues.
Test Architect at Zest Consulting
I would say seven or an eight because sometimes there are hiccups in the interface with Jira, for example.
Release and Test Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Users suggest improvements for OpenText Silk Central in reporting, integration, setup, test environment support, performance, and navigation.
TestRail needs improvements in reporting, integration, user interface, defect management, API, technical support, pricing, and AI features.
It is designed more for Waterfall than Agile, so it is not as efficient as it could be.
Senior Test Analyst at Kainga Ora
If you want to use TestRail for enterprise-level waterfall projects with traditional reporting and a lot of analytics, it's not good enough because the analytics, dashboards, and reporting are not really there.
Release and Test Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
I would appreciate AI features that help design test cases based on documented requirements.
Test Architect at Zest Consulting
 

Setup Cost

<p>OpenText Silk Central provides enterprise pricing options, balancing initial costs with comprehensive features, support, and significant return on investment.</p>
Enterprise users have mixed views on TestRail's pricing, appreciating discounts and scalability despite recurring costs and no perpetual license.
 

Valuable Features

OpenText Silk Central excels in test management, tool integration, reporting, ease of use, customization, automation, and effective large-scale test case management.
TestRail offers intuitive test management, effective integrations, and user-friendly features for efficient, cost-effective test execution and organization.
The reporting is probably the most valuable feature.
Senior Test Analyst at Kainga Ora
The integration with Jira is good. I like that because it helps to show your test results and helps you to keep traceability between your user stories and your test results.
Release and Test Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
It significantly saves effort in managing test execution and managing all test cases.
Test Architect at Zest Consulting
The reporting capabilities and the simplicity of it make it user-friendly, as new users can easily understand the tool.
Automation Test Engineer Il at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Silk Central
Ranking in Test Management Tools
14th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
2.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Test Design Automation (3rd)
TestRail
Ranking in Test Management Tools
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Silk Central is 2.1%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TestRail is 8.7%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
TestRail8.7%
OpenText Silk Central2.1%
Other89.2%
Test Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

ChrisWilliams1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Analyst at Kainga Ora
Reporting efficacy and collaboration improve despite outdated features
I do this for my own benefit, and it has nothing to do with any company views. I work as a permanent employee for a government department. OpenText Silk Central is coming to the end of its support, so we will have to move to something else, but I do not know what the other solution will be. Automation is quite immature at our place. It has only really started, so there is no integration with OpenText Silk Central. I would give it a rating of 7 out of 10; it could be 7.5. It just lacks certain features that would make it a higher grade if it had more modern features.
ChristineAnderssen - PeerSpot reviewer
Release and Test Manager at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Provides quick test management for agile workflows but lacks customization for reporting and dashboards
The analytics and reporting capabilities in TestRail are not very extensive and tailorable. This doesn't make it very suitable for enterprise level programs. With OpenText, you have a lot of flexibility. I'm talking about the old version of ALM, the desktop client, which I used when it was still Micro Focus ALM. It has a tremendous ability to generate different types of reports. You can build different graphs, have Word document format, Excel format, or write your own Excel queries and incorporate that into your own reporting. TestRail has one type of format. If you want to generate a test summary report, there is basically only one format that you can use. You can't add your own components. You can choose which portions of your test results you want to include by selecting certain sections, but you don't have freedom to add and remove sections yourself. It's predefined and all that you can do is just take out the ones that you don't want. It is usable, but it's not tailorable, it's not configurable, it just gives you the bare minimum. It depends on what you use the tool for. If you want to use TestRail for enterprise-level waterfall projects with traditional reporting and a lot of analytics, it's not good enough because the analytics, dashboards, and reporting are not really there. However, if you use it for agile and you want quick and easy with very simple functionality, then it's very good because it's simple to use. For agile use cases, it's great and you don't need more than that. But if you are looking for an enterprise tool or waterfall project with large programs, even the enterprise version is not sufficient. There's no significant difference from the basic version. The only thing that you really get is the ability to have multiple project reporting, but the reporting itself is limited. There are no configurable dashboards. You can report across multiple projects, which is great, but the type of reports that you can run are limited to the current set of built-in reports. That's not good enough for enterprise level with multiple project and large programs. You want multiple reports across multiple projects and you want the tailorability and configurability of having dashboards and analytics, which TestRail is weak on for the enterprise level.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Educational Organization
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with OpenText Silk Central?
It can be a bit slow sometimes, and it has not got some of the modern features many of the other competitors have. I am talking about features such as traceability matrix; it is designed more for W...
What is your primary use case for OpenText Silk Central?
I could leave my opinion on some ALM that I have been working with lately. Recently, I have been working with Silk, Azure DevOps, but in the past, I have worked with ALM, QC, and all that kind of s...
What advice do you have for others considering OpenText Silk Central?
I do this for my own benefit, and it has nothing to do with any company views. I work as a permanent employee for a government department. OpenText Silk Central is coming to the end of its support,...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TestRail by Gurock?
Pricing is reasonable for TestRail. It offers good value for money.
What needs improvement with TestRail by Gurock?
The analytics and reporting capabilities in TestRail are not very extensive and tailorable. This doesn't make it very suitable for enterprise level programs. With OpenText, you have a lot of flexib...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Silk Central, Borland Silk Central, Silk Central
TestRail by Gurock
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University
Apple, Microsoft, Boeing, Intel, NASA, Amazon, HP, Samsung
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