We performed a comparison between Tricentis Tosca and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Very user-friendly and the low code automation is really helpful."
"It's stable and reliable."
"The low code is the best feature."
"Compared to other tools we have been looking at, you don't have to be a programmer to operate it, though it helps. It also a product that can be used by business people."
"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."
"Tosca BI is important to make sure that our data integrity is in check and validated; to make sure our data is good. Our data is the number-one important driver for our company, so if that's not good, we have some big problems."
"The interface is easy to use."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"You can easily write code, test, and deploy within the same environment. It is a mature tool. It regularly receives new updates and versions. In my opinion, it's one of the best products by Microsoft for developers."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"The solution is very stable."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"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."
"Many times when we have raised a ticket, we did not get an urgent response."
"The solution is expensive."
"Tricentis Tosca could improve on the ease of use. There is a steep learning curve. The reporting section could be better and some of the new features could be simplified. Additionally, the user management of the client and the server are confusing. There should not be two."
"Not being able to mask test data in relation to testing data management, in my opinion, is also a limitation."
"The product needs to improve its pricing. It also needs to improve the infrastructure and DEX agent setup."
"More and more artificial intelligence (AI) is coming in. So, some amount of AI to create natural language processing (NLP)-based test cases and manage defects would be very helpful. This is because the technologies have evolved in the last five to six months, so there is a potential opportunity there."
"In Tosca, I see that there are no user guides."
"The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"The product must provide more automation."
"The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."
"Sometimes Visual Studio is slow. It uses a lot of resources like memory and processing power. You should optimize the performance by only installing what you need on your machine. Don't install unnecessary things that will slow your machine."
"The data flow can be improved."
"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."
"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."
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Tricentis Tosca is ranked 1st in Functional Testing Tools with 98 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Tricentis Tosca writes "Does not require coding experience to use and comes with productivity and time-saving features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". Tricentis Tosca is most compared with Katalon Studio, OpenText UFT One, Worksoft Certify, Postman and Testim, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and Katalon Studio. See our Tricentis Tosca vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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