We performed a comparison between Sauce Labs, Tricentis Tosca, and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Perforce and others in Functional Testing Tools."I find that the multitude of browser and OS versions are very helpful for broadening testing scope."
"Supplying devices to a testing team of possibly close to one thousand testers and developers is a great undertaking but Sauce Labs has made this very easy and a welcomed solution."
"It offers the single best solution for integrating deep automated browser testing in a CI/CD pipeline."
"Testing my app on cloud has really helped us with save time and resources to procure various hardware and software, and set those up."
"They offer a large number of devices and browser/operating system combinations for real device tests"
"From an infrastructure support perspective, the number of VMs, browsers installations and versions that we would be maintaining without Sauce Labs would be a lot. This includes not only the infrastructure costs, but also the maintenance costs and people's time. The labor cost associated with maintaining all of that would be considerably high. In terms of efficiency, having concurrent VMs with various browser combinations available has allowed us to run multiple executions by all our teams."
"Sauce Labs provides us with more combinations to test, so we can keep adding platforms and devices to our network. That's been a very seamless experience. Let's say there's an iOS or a private device we need. Sauce Labs has helped get all those set up when needed."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily test multiple browsers and versions, as well as off-loading our local environments using the SauceCloud."
"This solution is very easy to learn and any non-programmer or manual tester, with little experience in automation, can pick it up quite easily."
"It's stable and reliable."
"It's a simple tool, particularly in terms of system testing. You can also convert and automate using Tricentis Tosca with ease."
"What I find valuable is that Tricentis is always refining the test methodology. They listen to feedback from the analysts about what the testing tool should do, and then Tricentis always implements it. So all the necessary testing functions are already implemented in their tools."
"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."
"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."
"I face no challenges or stability issues."
"The initial setup isn't too difficult."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"It is very easy to use. You can handle a lot of things together at once in one package, which is a good point for us."
"I was satisfied with the support given by customer service."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."
"On a rare occasion, I will come into a ticket where a customer will have reached out to me after reaching out to Sauce Labs, saying, "Sauce Labs doesn't understand what I am going through. They are not being very helpful." So, I try to do clean up there. Outside of those extremely rare occasions, I have only had one or two of those support issues."
"As a web product QA team, we sometimes need to spot check some new child site on multiple browsers and OS(es). It was a little time consuming for us since we need to click on each of the browser/OS combinations and start a new session to test. Every sprint, with new features and child pages being added, we mostly need to do the same steps over and over again."
"The pricing model of Sauce Labs could be more flexible. Sauce Labs has just one price for the type of solution and a set number of devices. Other solutions have a fee for the base solution and an additional cost per device. If you're a smaller organization, you have to consider your needs. Some smaller companies still need to test various devices, so my advice is to start small and scale up as needed. We had initially planned to start big, but that would have been a big waste."
"The ability to configure the memory and CPU for the test machines should be included."
"When we were in development, it was a bit of a pain because we have onshore and offshore development. One of our development shops is in India, and we were running tests over there. When some of the users tried to log in, it was slow for them or we didn't have enough licenses. That was during the core development before we even launched."
"User account management needs an overhauls, allowing for user groups rather than just a hierarchy structure."
"This product is not super scalable, because you have a very specific number of VMs that you can use."
"Progress towards reducing application testing time can be made."
"The solution should work with the Linux platform. Right now, it only runs on Windows."
"They can make it more stable. I have used this tool for SAP applications. They have an alliance with SAP, and it mostly worked fine, but there were a few glitches. However, we got the required support from the Tricentis team. They are coming up with their new versions and upgrades with respect to how the Tricentis systems as cloud applications are updated, and it would be good if they have a robust accelerator pack."
"What needs to be improved in Tricentis Tosca is its centralized repository mechanism because it's not as flexible. The repository in the solution where you store the data and the script for test automation is quite an old-fashioned mechanism that could be improved."
"Parallel execution is not yet implemented for Tosca. This means you can't execute the same test case on multiple machines remotely."
"I would like to be able to manage different projects in one repository or have better data exchange between repositories."
"Might have a learning curve, as it does not follow the traditional Record-Play functionality, but tests have to be built from requirements or Agile story cards."
"It is quite difficult to integrate the solution with other tools."
"I would like a better user interface."
"The solution can improve the startup time."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
"The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."
"The documentation is limited."
"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
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