Hi All, I have some questions.

1. What exactly SILK Automation Frame work means?
2. How to design Automation frame work in SILK?
3. How a QA Engineer's role in designng this frame work?

Hi all,

Can any one atleast answer the first one??

SilkTest is an automation tool. It is a software for automated testing.
With the help of ST you can make a framework, but ST itself is just a program.

citing wikipedia:a framework is a defined support structure in which another software project can be organized and developed

For example, you have an application that have several windows, buttons, etc. And you want to test that application thoroughly.
So you will write a lots of declarations and functions and so on and so on. And at the end you will have mapped your application to such degree, that you will be able to write scripts like this:

login("john")
view(windows.shopping)
buy(items.glasses, 2)
pay()

You have written a function for every elementary operation on the user level, so you can write a scripts without knowing anything about 4test at all. So you have an automated testing framework for your application.

See? With the help of a program (ST) you have created a framework (libraries of declarations a functions), and this framework will help you write simple and easy-to-maintain testing scripts without focusing on the functionality of your testing tool (ST).

This is a little simplified explanation of what is a framework, hope that someone will correct or clarify my rough explanation...