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OpenText Silk Central vs UiPath Test Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
7.5
UiPath Test Cloud rapidly deploys tests, reducing development time, workforce needs, and costs while offering high returns.
 

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
7.2
UiPath Test Cloud support is praised for quick, expert assistance, though some mention concerns over its additional cost.
They get into the meeting, understand the problem, and try to provide a solution quickly.
Support should be free, especially for product-related issues.
I would rate UiPath's support neutrally at a five.
 

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
UiPath Test Cloud enhances automation scalability, improving efficiency and workflow management despite integration challenges and local script storage needs.
Proper knowledge of Orchestrator and CI/CD processes makes the product truly scalable.
Scaling with UiPath Test Cloud is supported; they have the infrastructure to scale automation to meet business needs.
 

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
7.5
UiPath Test Cloud is generally stable with occasional performance issues, earning user ratings between seven and nine out of ten.
UiPath Test Suite has matured over the years and is now quite stable.
It is performing better than two to three years back; significant improvements have been made for complete project delivery.
 

Room For Improvement

Users suggest improvements for OpenText Silk Central in reporting, integration, setup, test environment support, performance, and navigation.
Enhancements are needed in mobile automation, integration, reporting, compatibility, and cost-effectiveness for improved UiPath Test Cloud workflows.
It is designed more for Waterfall than Agile, so it is not as efficient as it could be.
If they could add defect management, it could work independently without needing Jira.
I've noticed that adding more users impacts the speed, although nothing stops entirely.
UiPath should introduce compatibility so existing processes in Selenium or other tools can work seamlessly with UiPath Test automation.
 

Setup Cost

<p>OpenText Silk Central provides enterprise pricing options, balancing initial costs with comprehensive features, support, and significant return on investment.</p>
UiPath Test Cloud is seen as valuable yet costly, with prices perceived higher than competitors but justified by features.
Our customers usually pay around 30K to 35K for five licenses, which is priced per year.
The pricing of UiPath tends to be on the higher side, which can restrict smaller companies from adopting it.
 

Valuable Features

OpenText Silk Central excels in test management, tool integration, reporting, ease of use, customization, automation, and effective large-scale test case management.
UiPath Test Cloud integrates with tools, offers low-code, customized tests, AI features, and saves costs on testing processes.
The reporting is probably the most valuable feature.
The ability of the test suite to automate tests across a wide range of technologies is great since UiPath's background in RPA is specifically designed to automate basically any and all technologies.
Some of the best features I find with UiPath Test Cloud include the creation of end-to-end workflows with API integration.
The most valuable feature of UiPath Test Cloud that I have found is the TestManager dashboard, which integrates with Jira through Planview Tasktop.
 

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 (4th)
UiPath Test Cloud
Ranking in Test Management Tools
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Functional Testing Tools (3rd), Mobile App Testing Tools (3rd), API Testing Tools (6th), Test Automation Tools (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of OpenText Silk Central is 1.6%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of UiPath Test Cloud is 2.7%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
UiPath Test Cloud2.7%
OpenText Silk Central1.6%
Other95.7%
Test Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

ChrisWilliams1 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Manigandan Rajavelu - PeerSpot reviewer
Comprehensive, good value for money, and a lot of time savings
I discovered a lot of bugs in UiPath Test Suite. If I publish a test case in Test Manager as well as in Orchestrator, the existing test case does not get replaced. It is appending the test case but not replacing it. We want to replace the existing test case, but this functionality is not available. In Test Manager, there are a lot of defects in the ROI report that we provide to the operations team on a monthly basis. It is not very clear and detailed. There is no detailed explanation of every test case. There is only a high-level overview. We cannot download the report from Test Manager. We have to use some other tool, such as Power BI, to view the data.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
No data available
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Insurance Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise8
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise19
 

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 do you like most about UiPath Test Suite?
Being able to use regular expressions, activities, and attributes is valuable.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for UiPath Test Suite?
I consider it expensive. I would rate it a seven out of ten for pricing. It's priced per license on an annual basis. Our customers usually pay around 30K to 35K for five licenses, which is priced p...
What needs improvement with UiPath Test Suite?
The speed could be improved. I've noticed that adding more users impacts the speed, although nothing stops entirely. The speed for each transaction might be slower, but I cannot pinpoint exactly wh...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Silk Central, Borland Silk Central, Silk Central
Test Suite
 

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Sample Customers

AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University
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