We performed a comparison between Broadcom Test Data Manager and Tricentis Tosca based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."What I find to be most valuable is its ability to do synthetic data creation. I love that because it has a lot of flexibility and you do not have to worry about one specific database or how you are going to manage all the data points."
"The solution is very user-friendly. For instance, if I wanted to create a project with Data Generation, Data sub-setting, Selective sub-setting, and Data Marketing, it can be easily done in TDM. And if you want to export these project definitions from one system to another, it can be done with just one click."
"The synthetic data generation is really good... You can write rules and create permutations and combinations according to your needs. Or you can take a snippet of the Prod data and replicate it."
"There is other stuff that they are working on right now, and that includes things like the vTDM or Virtual Test Data Management. That is where they have the ability to do test data clones. It is really neat because after doing some of that creation, or if you are going to do some subsetting, then you have a great looking database."
"It removes manual intervention. A lot of the time that we've spent previously was always manually, as an individual running SQL scripts against databases, or manually going through a UI to create data. These solutions allow us to incorporate automation and self-service to eliminate all of our manual efforts."
"I like the integration a lot. We use the test matching feature and the ability to make and find data."
"CA is one of the few tool suites that has end-to-end features. Whatever role you are playing, whatever personality you are trying to address, it has that feature. For example, CA Service Virtualization goes hand-in-hand with TDM."
"It saves us time from generating the same amount of data in real-time."
"We can also create customized functions. For example, if something isn't supported in Tricentis Tosca Commander, we can create our own function to integrate it with Tosca Commander, so we can utilize it and integrate with the macros."
"I face no challenges or stability issues."
"The technical support is good, we were satisfied."
"The most valuable feature is being able to create a test case by recording some scenarios and then leasing that task case to other scenarios."
"It's integrated with different technologies, desktop applications, package solutions like SAP, and mobile applications."
"The item that is different from all the other tools is that it's module based."
"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."
"We are satisfied with the support of Tricentis."
"There were some issues with initial setup. It wasn't as smooth as we had thought. We ran into a network issue, a firewall issue, things like that. It wasn't something we could not fix. We worked with CA support and with the client's team to fix it. But there were issues, it took a lot of time to install and configure."
"I would request to extend the data source support because there are a lot of cloud-native SaaS-based solutions in the market. Like, Azure has its data sources, Amazon-specific data sources, and there are a lot of proprietary data sources outside as well. I recommend the team to expand the data source support."
"Broadcom TDM takes a long time to import documents, which wastes time that could be spent on other things."
"They could make it easier to model databases, because right now it is really technical, so to train someone on it takes a while."
"Needs a better fit and finish."
"They should make the Portal a little more user-friendly, make it even easier to configure things directly from the Portal."
"The relationship between cables needs to be added."
"We had one user that was primarily working on it, who probably spent a few months initially setting it up."
"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."
"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."
"Tosca's reporting features could be better. Tricentis had a reporting tool called Analytics, but it didn't function properly after they reworked it. After that, they tried a new approach with key-tracing, and that didn't work."
"The integration with mobile testing could be useful."
"Tricentis Tosca could improve on its mobile automation solution."
"The document object model or some aspects of it has a bit of a learning curve."
"I would like a better user interface."
"Parallel execution is not yet implemented for Tosca. This means you can't execute the same test case on multiple machines remotely."
Broadcom Test Data Manager is ranked 2nd in Test Data Management with 32 reviews while Tricentis Tosca is ranked 1st in Regression Testing Tools with 96 reviews. Broadcom Test Data Manager is rated 8.4, while Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Broadcom Test Data Manager writes "Helps to create synthetic data and new data sets ". 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 ". Broadcom Test Data Manager is most compared with Delphix, Informatica Test Data Management (TDM), IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management (TDM), K2View and DATPROF, whereas Tricentis Tosca is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio, Worksoft Certify, Postman and SmartBear TestComplete.
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