We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and Tricentis Tosca based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We are using this for performance testing and some automation."
"The most valuable feature in JMeter is the Thread Group, which helps us to see whether the performance is good."
"The thread groups, samplers, and listeners, which are all determined by the script's requirements, are the most valuable features of this solution."
"It is very quick and user-friendly."
"The product helps me get the expected performance from applications or servers and reduces costs. It also enhances the performance of the services and helped them reach their ultimate capacity."
"The reports and analysis tools are very good. They are the solution's most valuable features."
"It is scalable. You can scale up to 1,000 users in JMeter. If you can put up four slave servers, you can easily ramp up to 1,000 users."
"Scripting with the solution is good."
"We have to automate thousands of test cases and complete end-to-end SAP on business processes. To manually execute these tasks, it would take us at least two months. By automating these tasks using Tosca, now it takes five to 10 days maximum. Tricentis Tosca is a codeless or scriptless automation tool."
"The reporting is really nice."
"It's integrated with different technologies, desktop applications, package solutions like SAP, and mobile applications."
"The automation engine is very strong, and it is very competitive in the market in terms of features. They develop a lot of features."
"The use of automation is most valuable."
"Image recognition: It has allowed us to automate a GUI section of our product which involves drawing different topologies."
"It's been very helpful to have connectivity with mobile. The tool also identifies some of the actual changes from the recordings on the actual testing suite. That is something that I really like."
"Tricentis Tosca is well integrated with other products like Jira."
"Until now, JMeter is not supporting most of the protocols."
"Report generation needs to be improved. It is quite difficult to get to."
"Improving JMeter's sync time would be beneficial."
"Given that Apache JMeter is a free and open-source tool, documentation improvement may not be a major concern, as it is mostly contributed on a voluntary basis. The essential information is already available. However, in terms of the interface, there are occasional bugs, and the tool may not address them as quickly as some users would like. Fixing defects and bugs might take a considerable amount of time, with users sometimes having to wait for several months or even a year for the next release to address specific issues."
"We would like some reporting and analysis tools to be added to this solution."
"Automation is difficult in JMeter."
"The solution's setup could be easier and security could be improved to minimize vulnerabilities."
"At present, if the number of virtual users increases beyond 10,000 when testing, then it results in a Java heap which causes the solution to crash."
"In terms of areas for improvement, Tricentis has a variety of tools, even its test management tool called qTest. Tricentis Tosca does have integration with different Tricentis tools, but the integration is geared towards a larger organization perspective. For very small organizations that have minimal licenses, the integration needs to be improvised. For example, I belong to a smaller organization that has only one license, so the capability that the tool provides for integration isn't sufficient because my company needs to have separate workspaces. When Tricentis Tosca is going to be running, it is going to use that license, but my company wants another separate workspace to record, relay, and test. This is what my team has been struggling with, and the mechanism is probably there, but that needs more time and investigation, so I can't say that I'm one hundred percent certain that Tricentis Tosca, in terms of integration for a smaller organization is insufficient. Another area for improvement is that Tricentis Tosca is currently just a Windows-based tool which affects the market because nowadays, Windows isn't the only operating system, for example, there's also Apple or IOS that's moving much faster than Windows."
"Their license management should be improved. One of our customers is a global customer. They want to use one licensed server and then split the licenses based on the different users of the different business units, but currently, there is only one license server that everybody can access. There is no control, and that's why sometimes congestion can happen."
"The solution is expensive compared to other tools in the market."
"I think the downside would be licensing costs which are very high."
"The solution is expensive."
"A disadvantage of Tricentis Tosca is that you have to customize it according to your need, during the early stages of the software, particularly during upstream testing, before system and unit testing."
"You need to spend much more time learning the tool and how to use it, compared to others."
"They need to improve on the reports after the execution of automation tests, since all the current organizations are looking for detailed graphical reports."
Apache JMeter is ranked 3rd in API Testing Tools with 82 reviews while Tricentis Tosca is ranked 2nd in API Testing Tools with 96 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". 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 ". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad and OpenText LoadRunner Professional, whereas Tricentis Tosca is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio, Worksoft Certify, Postman and SmartBear TestComplete. See our Apache JMeter vs. Tricentis Tosca report.
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