Case Study: Ameritas achieves 80% test coverage and cuts testing time from days to hours with OpenText Silk Test

Silk Test eliminates manual testing effort and increases testing coverage from 35 to 80 percent, delivering higher quality software

Ameritas, a U.S. financial services firm providing insurance and financial products used by 5,000–7,000 field agents, faced a QA bottleneck: its small team relied on manual testing of complex illustration software for 60+ life products, covering only about 35% of the application. Manually entering 70–150 test cases per product took up to three days, leaving regression gaps that produced field-reported errors and customer complaints.

By implementing Micro Focus Silk Test, Ameritas automated test case entry and built a structured testing framework that integrates visual-level automation and .NET scripting. Automated runs cut validation time to roughly three hours, increased test coverage to about 80% (supporting full regression of 4–5,000 cases), and reduced defects and support complaints, delivering higher-quality releases to field agents.

Ameritas

Jack Williams

Software Analyst