Tricentis Tosca Benefits

Vinayak Bandewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at Cognizant

Tricentis Tosca supports multiple technologies, which means there is no need to use different tools for various tasks. In our current project, we are conducting Salesforce testing and API testing, both of which can be done using Tricentis Tosca. This makes it easier for us to test different technologies. Additionally, Tricentis Tosca is scalable, allowing us to easily create multiple combinations of test cases using templates by varying the data. Tricentis Tosca also offers distributed execution, enabling us to conduct parallel testing and execute a high number of test cases, depending on the number of agents we have available. This greatly speeds up the application testing process.

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NM
AVP, Testing Service Owner at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We have five large business units: financial, property and casualty, enterprise applications, marketing, and emerging business. And then we have a shared-services organization. Across this, we have more than 200 Agile teams that do build work. A lot of the time, these agile teams focus on developing and testing the work that has been handed to them. When Tosca came in, one of the things we started thinking about was how Tosca could help us facilitate some end-to-end testing.

When I say end-to-end, that doesn't mean in one particular business solution area or in one particular department, but rather, how do we go across departments? If we have to create a retirement plan, the work is not just in the retirement area. It has to flow from a lot of different applications and different business units, and that facilitates the end-to-end.

The way we are organized right now is by department. Initially, our scope was to see if we could do end-to-end, but we reduced the scope because that would have meant that many people had to be ready at the same time to consume the work. So what we said is that if we can use Tosca to do end-to-end for an application, then we can use orchestrator tools like Jenkins or Concourse to create an end-to-end flow from a business perspective. 

To give you some numbers, we will be harvesting a saving of almost $1 million, in the first area that we tried this. We had 36 manual testers and we were able to go down to 14 quality engineers, so we are seeing some savings. That was the biggest. In other areas, we are seeing savings from reducing by three or four people.

In terms of cases covered by testing automation with Tosca, it's very difficult to put a number on that. Where Tosca has really made a difference is where we had manual testing only and the percentage was zero. In the area that I just mentioned, where we went from 36 to 14 testers, they were at zero percent automation and they're already at 40 percent. The goal is to be 80 percent by mid next year.

Out of our 200 teams, we have not finished all the waves yet for Tosca. Around 50 percent of them are already using it, if not more. In January of 2018, the number of associates we had doing manual testing — I'm not even talking about contractors — was around 370. Our projection is that by the end of next year, we are hoping to go down to 230 associates. That's about a 37 percent decrease in the test-analyst workforce. Most of that is going to be enabled via automation using Tosca.

We have seen lead-time change impacts as well.

We are seeing some defect numbers dropping down and we are still operationalizing. The biggest is Speedplay, where we were doing testing manually. Now, with automation, we are able to execute some of those regression tests sooner. 

Tosca enables us to run the entire regression test suite immaterial of where changes have been made. We now have much more confidence in the areas where we've implemented it. We have a high level of confidence in the changes that we are making because we know we have a regression suite that we can run.

We have seen workflow improve. Before, we wouldn't have thought off coordinating among different applications. For example, application A does their testing and tells application B, "Here is what we need." Application B goes into their cycle and they do their work and say, "Okay, we're ready." That might have taken a day, two days, five days, or a week. Now, we have examples where we have been able to directly call the database for application B and retrieve the information. What used to take six days, we are able to do in six hours.

One more example where Tosca helped a lot recently was when there was an issue where our retirement plan holders were seeing incorrect information on their PDF statements. There were 32,000 PDF statements that needed to be validated after the fix was done and it would have taken 60,000 hours for one person. So we had a couple of our folks create scripts. It took them two days and they executed all the 32,000 PDF validations in one day. Tosca didn't only help us in terms of time, because it was more an issue of cost-avoidance, but it helped us gain the trust of business because business signed off on it. Business was the one which had said, "We need to validate each and every PDF manually," and that's where that estimate had come from.

We are seeing a lot of these success stories. We expect, once we have the full implementation done next year, that we'll see many more examples.

Overall, by next year, we will be looking at a total reduction in testing costs of about $14 million, across the span of three years. That includes both build and run. Build is very difficult for us to harvest because if we reduce the money in build — if we take away two people — the demand grows and they add two developers. But overall, from a build and run perspective, we are looking at forecast savings of $14 million. This year alone, we have proved that we have reduced the overall spend by $3.5 million.

Another big use case which where we have been helped a lot is through Tosca BI, which helps with large-volume validation from a data perspective. For a lot of our data lines, we have an automation framework, but it doesn't do as well when it comes to comparing huge volumes of data from source to target. That's a place where Tosca BI has helped us because it can do those large file and data comparisons in a very short time.

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Arun Pakkan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior QA Automation Architect -DevOps and Digital at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Tricentis Tosca has benefited our company by allowing us to onboard testers easily. We have a few developers who develop the code, such as scripts for the team. The manual testing team can execute the code without a problem. 

The regression testing time, was five days earlier. For example, in the current project, it took us five days for the release. Since we have used the solution it only takes us two days. It is a savings of three days. It's easy and much more stable. The results we receive are hard to believe. 

We have experienced that when we used Selenium, we can have some failures. Tricentis Tosca is much more reliable compared to many of the tools. The reliability and efficiency of our teams have improved a lot from the use of this solution.

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Tricentis Tosca
March 2024
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Test Process Consultant - PeerSpot reviewer
SME (Subject Matter Expert) at Maersk

Reduced Integration testing time effectively from 2 weeks to 1 day for CRM application.

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SG
Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We switched to Tosca because it's a no-code solution. That's the primary advantage because many of our functional testers lack technical knowledge and cannot write code in Java. People without coding skill can also use it. We only need to train them. Multiple functions, loops, and logical conditions are available. If you have an in-depth understanding of the Tosca framework, you can easily automate any complex application.

We're working with multiple on-premise and cloud applications, and we use Tosca's reporting tool for regulatory purposes. One of our applications is built upon BDA visual basic, and Tosca can identify the object of that application.

Tosca generally supports 90 percent of the applications. We handle dynamic applications and multiple popups that appear while running them. I've trained almost 50 people in my organization to use Tosca, and they are now doing well.

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KC
SAP Test Manager at Apexon

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.

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Aditya Chakradhar Nanduri - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Tricentis Tosca has helped organizations process tasks faster and more efficiently.

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JK
Manager SDLC Automation at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

The solution has improved out time to release on production. Everything's automated now, which makes everything move faster. 

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RB
Global QA Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

We're currently going through an upgrade of a system here, in-house, and Tosca has allowed us to do more testing compared to what we were previously able to do. In the past, it would just take too much time for humans to do. This additional testing that we're doing, which provides additional test coverage for the upgrade, would take a couple of individuals three weeks to do, and we're able to do it within 24 hours with Tosca.

Also, the solution enables us to run the entire regression test suite, immaterial of where a change has been made. We're able to run all our regression tests at one time. We do not have CI/CD set up yet, so it still has to be manually kicked off. For example, for the in-house upgrade I mentioned, most of what they're building is regression test cases because we want to make our upgrades faster and we want to do them more frequently. So as the users are building out the test cases, they're also creating the regression execution list. They can build upon that and then run that when they need to. And then all they do is do the analysis of the execution.

Tosca is also slowly starting to remove redundant test cases. We're working with the users to build better test cases and remove those redundancies as well. This really helps because we have the central repository which allows us to share everybody's test cases and to reuse the test cases globally. We have delivery teams in Edinburgh and in the Netherlands as well as here in the US. It really allows for that single collaboration and for reduction and reuse of test cases. We're still analyzing how this has affected our testing efficiency. That's one of the reasons we're upgrading to 12.3. We want the Tricentis Analytics to help paint that picture a little bit better for us.

We are starting to see the test speed increase a little bit. Looking, again, at that in-house upgrade's tests, if we had manual testers doing it, it would take a couple of weeks, and now we can execute test cases in 24 hours. Another team just completed some test automation test cases that take two minutes to run. When they first ran them they ran into errors and issues which were legitimate issues. The developers fixed them and they ran the tests again and found some more errors. They went back to developers. The whole time it took to resolve things was about 20 minutes. That is a huge improvement over how things worked before. It would have taken hours if it was manually tested, verified, etc.

Finally, we have BAs who have been trained on Tosca, people who have picked it up fairly quickly with little background in development or coding, and they've been able to get up and running on it fairly quickly. We would like to get to the business to be able to help control testing as well, but we're not there yet. We are using exploratory testing, but we're not 100 percent using that quite yet.

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it_user693246 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our organization is satisfied with this product on the technical side of it, but our organization was looking for the reporting part of this product since they undergo an auditing process for each year. The reports should be improved for the Tricentis Tosca product.

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix
  • Easier to maintain than any other tool in the class
  • Fast turnaround
  • Ease of integration with third-party tools
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Stinu Easo - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP S4HANA Finance, Treasury & Automation Test Consultant at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

I'm using Tricentis Tosca as part of test automation, so it reduces the test execution time, and this has improved our organization. This is the main advantage of the tool, compared to doing it manually.

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix

Tricentis Tosca has evolved from being a functional test automation tool to becoming a Continuous Testing platform. It has helped teams within our organization become more aware of the testing requirements in terms of risk and priority. 

It has also enabled teams to optimize risk coverage and enabled them to test more wisely.

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Vinayak Bandewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at Cognizant

We are using a multi-user environment and the central repository gives everyone very easy access, which lets them re-use the models or whatever artifacts they need from other teams.

Apart from that, with the distributed execution, we are able to execute thousands of test cases in a very small amount of time.

These two things, I feel have been very helpful in my project.

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LV
Architecture Manger at a government with 201-500 employees

It works fine for regression tests on the workflow system. Old scripts still work fine in browser based application. Saved and still saves us a lot of time.

SAP embedded is quite an issue. When IE was discontinued we didn't manage to get it working with msedgedriver. The support of Tricentis is below expectation for all the money we spend on them.

Version 2023.2 has a number of issues which they don't fix until the next major release (Not telling when). Badly documentated new settings.

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Nigel Powell - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead Engineer at Test Performance

It speeds up automation processes within testing.

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DS
IT Consultant with 10,001+ employees
  • Helped us to lay a strong foundation for model based test automation
  • Increased throughput
  • Improved quality
  • Better cost optimization
  • Faster time to market
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it_user377766 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

We are able to allocate more resources on projects instead of maintenance. Our maintenance has dwindled down to two employees and we have the confidence to try and other things and explore other units.

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it_user277017 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Manager, Head of Test Automation Process at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

For example, you can make templates and share them with storage elements. We use it in our main, regressive, HTML, and web-case tests.

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MS
Software QA Automation Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Using the automation tool, I can transfer test cases that are being done manually to ones that are automated. After about 30 such instances, I use the regression system from the suite to create all possible combinations of test cases to try with the new version. This gives us an overview of how the software is performing. Also, when major updates take place, we re-run all of the regression tests to make sure that it still conforms to the requirements.

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it_user491526 - PeerSpot reviewer
I.T Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We had this huge customer application (Java based) which needed to be tested end to end. Tosca let us execute around 400 test cases overnight. Hence, it saved a lot of time and brought value for our - and the vendor's :) - esteemed client.

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix

We have implemented Tosca CI, it allows us to test as soon as the code is deployed into the lower environment. Automated sanity, smoke tests have been configured to run every time there is a code deployment. The sanity/smoke tests are triggered automatically from a build server. After the test finishes, a Junit result file is generated and fed back to the build server.

This saves us significant amount of time by avoiding additional co-ordination/follow-ups required for sanity/smoke test. 

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it_user291459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Assurance Manager at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

It's given us the ability to do automated tests which has made some things a lot quicker.

A part of our problem is that we don’t necessarily have staff 100% dedicated to it, so that's a problem in our area. We should have had more done and taken on some huge projects, so it’s more that we haven’t had the time to use it to the greatest extent possible.

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VV
Test Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Tricentis Tosca has completely met our requirements. It has benefitted our organization.

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it_user694698 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Portfolio Management, Project Portfolio Management and Governance at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

A bit early to tell, we are still learning/deploying. What we have seen so far, is solid ability around identifying core application components and easily building and executing test cases. Even during experimentation we were able to identify some “bugs” before release to production.

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it_user514515 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Test Lead at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

It makes testing easy. Specially when we need to test lengthy Oracle R12 End to End flows. Tosca is really helpful. Easy to maintain test cases and Execution as well.

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it_user378198 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Lead at a tech services company

We did a full-blown POC. It was super successful and we were able to automate a large number of our scripts and save a lot of time and also automate a lot of our testing. We're now able to to build and get tests resolved. It has totally automated our testing, which is great. Now we are extending it across all of our teams.

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it_user346803 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product helps us to create very accurate test cases. The goal was not to create plenty of test cases, but only those that cover the most critical parts of our applications.

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gagneet - PeerSpot reviewer
Continuous Delivery Lead at SAI Global

- Brought a good environment of test automation

- Allowed a significant increase in Continuous Integration

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it_user704700 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager with 10,001+ employees

No, not in global organization; we are the only ones who are using it in our location (Austria), but in our team, it changed the testing workflow:

Every second week we release a candidate, and from two weeks of hard manual testing, we are testing now only a few days (four to five), the new fixed tickets and running in parallel - the regression. We have more time to increase the regression portfolio and also decrease long delays with documentation.

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it_user292620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Manager at a tech consulting company

I managed a test set over all areas for a retail bank alone for about three years with almost 1,000 test cases. I automated the starts overnight, and paralleled them on virtual clients. Then, I needed 24 hours for generating synthetic test data, regression test runs, and analyses. The runs were stable, and I could report many defects before the start of the manual tests.

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it_user149559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager with 501-1,000 employees

The primary driver for us is that it puts automation into the hands of non-technical testers. Previous programs, if you’re not a programmer, you can forget about it, but with TOSCA it’s easier to get information and start automating your own tests.

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DK
Consultant im Testingbereich at qcentris

It did not improve because the GUI was not static, so it was not possible to write tests for a GUI that was in progress.

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it_user511317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Before implementing Tosca, the average time that we took for completing regression was about four days. After we started using Tosca, it has been reduced to six hours.

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it_user318909 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees

We used the TCD (red folder to design the test flow), and it was easy to get the tests reviewed by the subject-matter experts as it allowed systematic review of Testcases. Once it was OKd by the SME, we could confidently run the tests for regression.

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it_user305517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Test Automation at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

From a services perspective, it allows us to scale up test automation teams very quickly, because test analysts can contribute to the test automation effort without the need for scripting/coding skills.

From our clients perspective (e.g. large banks, government organisations etc.), it has allowed them to decrease their total execution effort, improve their time to market, and increase their total risk coverage. View full review »
UB
QA at proalpha business solutions gmbh

Compared to the old tools, WinRunner and TestDirector by Mercury Interactive, it accelerated building, performing, and maintaining regression tests by a factor of approximately ten times.

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AM
Senior Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra

I have worked a lot with Tosca for the past year, and it has helped our organization complete many tasks which most of the other tools couldn’t.

Being a scriptless tool was pretty helpful for me, as I don't have a great knowledge of coding. Its features helps us complete the work soon, and in an easy way.

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it_user390288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Tricentis

The tool is meant to be an enterprise solution for automating software tests. The vendor has its own test philosophy and wants you to follow it. It tries to hide all technical information of the SUT and forces you to always look at your SUT from a business perspective.

The target audience are business domain experts and software testers without technical knowledge. This can be confusing for testers with a technical background who are used to scripting their way through the SUT.

Introducing the Tricentis Tosca Testsuite in a company goes ideally along with changing the whole business process of software test. I would say the company needs to adapt to the tool, and not the other way round, which is not always bad.

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it_user318897 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Test case automation and ease of test case maintenance through Tosca has reduced the manpower needed for testing, reducing the time needed for testing, and has thus saved money. Management of projects also got a lot easier.

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it_user317874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The project that I used this product on did not have a professional test management approach within the test activities they had for their IT systems. That's why they implemented automated testing with Tosca Testsuite, and the manual effort got reduced. At the same time, the replication of test processes was raised by up to 100%. This made the bug analysis for their software development much easier.

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it_user519210 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We have one application based on tax calculations and the transactions are calculated based on an Excel formula. We have developed implementations regarding how to implement or automate the application, but with Tosca the predefined modules from the TBOX engine and standard engine made our job to calculate the transactions easier.

Its unique way of test data maintenance re-usability of test cases is fantastic. Also, the support agents from the portal always respond to queries in less than 10 secs, which is very well appreciated!!

I am very happy using the product and also whenever I have asked for remote sessions, the agents always agreed.

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it_user308781 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

TOSCA is quite organized by itself, so it helps us do our job more efficient and quicker.

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it_user871533 - PeerSpot reviewer
Practice head for Automation at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Helps decrease execution time.

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MB
Release Test Manager at a tech company with 201-500 employees

Improves the software quality in production by finding more defects with automated test sets, before transporting developments to production.

Reduces the effort for acceptance testing by business colleagues by

  1. Reducing the effort for manual regressive tests and by
  2. Providing better pre-tested software for business acceptance testing.
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it_user742722 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

In my case I was able to rapidly construct several automation suites for a government organisation, that greatly enhanced their ability to cover all key areas of functionality in an efficient manner. The main implementation of Tosca was used for regression testing a major upgrade to an insurance claims processing application. It worked very well for this purpose.

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it_user458070 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has decreased the time for generating test data and risk-based opportunities which has helped us to cover key areas.

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it_user606489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Engineer at Infosys

Tosca follows the shift-left approach. A new resource can start automation on the first day of its project.

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it_user694677 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

It greatly accelerated regression testing cycle via automated regression.

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it_user693258 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of QA at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It was the only way to organize and support automation testing process for our re-insurance tool for underwriters.

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it_user739683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Salesforce Admin/Tester/TOSCA Automation Tester at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • Our organization is completely based on automation of the activities.
  • All the projects based on different technologies, such as SAP and Salesforce, are automated using Tosca.
  • SMEs just need to run the scripts developed by automation testers to validate the intended behavior.
  • We also use batches to schedule automation activities, which does not need any user attention.
  • Hence, automation testers can run the scripts as well as work on the new work at the same time, resulting into increased productivity.
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it_user509592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Tosca very efficiently helps us manage the time taken for automation, its very user-friendly and easy to work with.

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it_user289665 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Tester at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product is very useful in keeping track of test execution and coverage. This is because it has a feature called Execution List which shows resources and the test cases they have executed. There is also a tab for Requirements where the test cases can be linked.

So, by combining those two together, you will be able to see which test cases are mapped to requirements, and if they have been executed. You will also see the number of passed and failed test cases. It is very easy to use once you know all the features. It barely crashes and recovers gracefully most of the time.

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it_user909723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We build the test cases, then we just need run it by one person to get feedback right away. Otherwise, it would require planning with certain testers.

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it_user694683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

We are only using Tosca for our test automation. It helps the business testers to get involved and be a part of automation. It helps us define the right coverage by defining the scope in the test case design section. This tool has test data management capability along with test management.

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it_user193803 - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP TAX COE at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It has allowed us to have a highly reusable Regression Test suite. We have already been able to run it for an SAP upgrade and plan on using it on a regular basis (weekly) going forward.

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it_user712053 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is quick and easy to maintain automation with Agile implementation.

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it_user711897 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Lead at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees

Tests written once can be reused across different projects

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it_user653235 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Lead with 51-200 employees

We ended up going back to Selenium as this tool was very slow with the web applications. Also, for any new functionality, it requires customization that in turn required training with no guarantee that it may work with future releases.

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Buyer's Guide
Tricentis Tosca
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Tricentis Tosca. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.