We performed a comparison between Appium and Tricentis Tosca based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Regression Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Appium is it supports iOS and AOS and is open-source."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The library is extensive so the driver interacts with most functions or actions on mobile devices."
"It's an open-source solution with a very large community and available documentation."
"We get a list that shows all devices that are connected to the system."
"Appium provides a record-and-play option, and the commands are the same as those that Selenium uses. So a person who has some exposure to Selenium will be able to write a piece of code in Appium."
"Obviously because of automation, it reduces manual testing efforts."
"We do not need to pay for the solution. It’s free."
"With one click, it will scan all the elements on the screen, so that the user can select the required elements for automation tests."
"Tricentis Tosca is a really cool tool that you don't have to be technical to use it. Additionally, the solution is easy to use. The modules, libraries, and reusable are in an efficient way to update all the tests. I find it spot on with that. We also started using the design which we switched from Excel. The design was superior to Excel."
"It has helped teams within our organization become more aware of the testing requirements in terms of risk and priority."
"The most valuable features of Tricentis Tosca are the Salesforce scanning. There are two scanning for Salesforce applications. There is Salesforce scanning and normal application scanning. Object identification has been really useful in Tricentis Tosca."
"One notable feature is its ability to handle negative XPath healing processes. If one XPath fails, Tosca can utilize backup XPaths to ensure test cases do not fail due to locator issues, thereby focusing on identifying application-side issues, which is the ultimate goal."
"It is easy to maintain and easy to automate. No coding skills are required to automate. It is also easy in terms of transferring knowledge and skills. Many of my team members shifted over the past one and a half years, and there was no big issue with respect to knowledge sharing. It is a good tool that enables me to re-automate my scripts and update my scripts as quickly as possible. Looking at the amount of rework and maintenance activity that we had done for our scripts, it might have been a nightmare with some other scripting tool."
"The most valuable features of Tricentis Tosca are all the test automation functionality. It is a full-scale automation tool."
"We like the fact that it works across mobile, desktop, web, and APIs. Due to this, the solution has a broad range of applications."
"I rarely use Appium nowadays because I'm now at the managerial level, but the last time I used it, whenever I selected and clicked on an element, Appium was very slow. I tried to debug it, but I still couldn't find the problem, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement lies with the connector and server. For example, the effort to get into the local machine sometimes causes the emulator to become slow, which then leads to failure in testing, and this is the usual issue I've encountered from Appium. An additional feature I'd like added to Appium in its next release is being able to do automation in iOS without using XPath and the name of the element. In Xcode, you can use previous UI tests for detecting elements, but in Appium, you have to use Xpath and the element name instead of being able to directly put the X-UiPath, which is what you can do in Xcode. In iOS as well, sometimes the element doesn't have a name or a path. Sometimes, there's also no element."
"Appium has problems with automated validations following iOS updates, causing us to have to validate manually."
"Configuration-wise, there is a lot of room for improvement."
"Support-wise, it could be better."
"Appium could improve by enabling record and run techniques similar to what they have in other licensing tools, such as Micro Focus. We have to all write the code, and then we can proceed."
"Stability is an area that needs some improvement."
"We need some bug fixes for nested elements."
"One thing which can be really helpful is that there is some kind of a recorder made available rather than scripting everything."
"The product needs to improve its pricing. It also needs to improve the infrastructure and DEX agent setup."
"It requires some coding customization that requires expertise."
"It is quite difficult to integrate the solution with other tools."
"There should be ease of data manipulation within automation test cases."
"The main area where there is room for improvement is how they do upgrades. Going through this current upgrade, we were delayed a month because we are using a third-party tool. It's called Tosca Connect by Tasktop. When this latest upgrade broke that relationship between the two, it took Tricentis a month to come back with a workable solution... Their whole upgrade process needs to be better and cleaner, from an end-user standpoint."
"I have found that some of the functions could be missed in the solution for new users. They are not obviously present."
"I would like a better user interface."
"While the initial setup was straightforward, we required assistance with the configuration to ensure that everything was done correctly."
Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Tricentis Tosca is ranked 1st in Regression Testing Tools with 98 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tricentis Tosca writes "Does not require coding experience to use and comes with productivity and time-saving features ". Appium is most compared with Katalon Studio, Perfecto, Xamarin Platform, Apache JMeter and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Tricentis Tosca is most compared with Katalon Studio, OpenText UFT One, Worksoft Certify, Postman and Ranorex Studio. See our Appium vs. Tricentis Tosca report.
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