The implementation is completed in-house.

Initially, for the deployment of Tricentis Tosca, we used a consultancy company, but now we do its deployment in-house.

We had a consultant help deploy the solution for us. 

Initially, we used a consultant to do the implementation.

Tricentis Tosca has minimal maintenance, it is a setup-and-go type solution. The only thing we had to do is create the workspace. We use the two ways to do it, single-user workspace or multi-user space. We have now moved from single to multi-user. That takes some time to do because of the slicing and dicing of the workspace that we have to do. We have to be careful about the planning of Tricentis Tosca. 

The maintenance is straightforward. Once you install it, it's great. There is no need to have any updates everything is controlled to the centralized agent system. If we are to receive an upgrade, it's all handled through our IT team. They update all the systems, to whatever needs changing which is done through a backend system. There is no need to do individual updates.

We engaged the SI partner for Tosca set up and automation.

We deployed it ourselves with help from third-party teams. We had four people involved in the deployment including engineers and a manager.

We hired some consulting hours from Tosca to help us with the tech. We ran a POC, which they helped us with. Then we did have some consulting hours - maybe 30 or so. We also had them train us. It was good.

They also have self-service training. They recommend you take the self-service training before you start working with the consultants. That way you know more, and then it doesn't take as much time with the consultants. 

We used a Tricentis consultant for the first setup and deployment. They were fantastic. They're very knowledgeable, they're great at what they do, they know the product inside and out, and it really helped speed things up. 

An in-house team implemented it.

Once the installation is ready in approximately a week's time, we can start with the automation. There is no framework or anything needed for this project tool to start with automation. We only need to ensure that we implemented the best practices in the initial days, and we follow the same practices continually.

The maintenance of the scripts is one of the major challenges in any automation tool, such as Tricentis Tosca. The maintenance is very fast and more efficient in the Tricentis Tosca automation tool. There is a coding language called Tosca coding language, we can search for multiple objects where there is a change. We can update thousands of objects with a single click. Within a single second, we can update thousands of test cases. This is a very useful feature that has been helpful. Dividing the technical properties of the objects and on the logical section where we are working on the objects into different areas. It makes it very easy and efficient to automate or maintain the test cases.

We are one of the top partners of Tricentis, and we do the implementation. 

In terms of maintenance, Tosca is easier to maintain than other solutions such as Selenium and any open-source tool. The only challenge is the infrastructure cost. You have to have that infrastructure always up and running. If you are setting up this infrastructure on the cloud, utilization becomes a big challenge, specifically when you want to run multiple test cases on multiple machines. You have to set up all these agent machines, which is also a problem with UiPath. These are good tools, but they are not good in terms of future infrastructure cloud readiness. If I want to install things, there should be flexibility for ramping down and up based on the demand. This is something that none of these tools have at this point. Selenium probably has this because it is open-source, and you can create your own framework on top of it to add those features, but with Tosca and UiPath, because these technologies and features are controlled by the company, you can't add those features, and if you don't have those features, it becomes a big dependency and a problem.

We did the implementation of Tricentis Tosca in-house but we had the help from an experienced hired team.

We implemented Tricentis Tosca through our in-house team.

We used a mix of both in-house staff and consultants for our implementation.

We did not need any assistance for the solution's implementation. It could be done without any help.

It was implemented through a vendor team – our team members had done a TOSCA certification so they worked together.

We did it ourselves. We had just one person for the deployment.

We have some integrators and consultants working for us, and we always have on-demand vendor support if something is not working. They resolve issues quickly. The vendor handles software maintenance. Our installation and maintenance can be partially done by a Tricentis consultant who works for our team. But before, it was an in-house guy. That guy left, so we hired an external consultant to do the same functions as the in-house staffer. So we have someone in the organization who is doing that. Before, it was internal and not external, but he is working basically like an internal for us.

I was able to learn the installation process myself.

In-house one.

We had been a HP UFT user for a long time. We tried other tools, but this far and above exceeds this in terms of ease and flexibility with test scripts. For a lot of the tools you don’t need an automator.

I deployed it by myself. 

It was done through a in-house team, but they worked very closely with the vendor.

In-house implementation.

I would definitely recommend a vendor team for the implementation!

We implemented it via our in-house team in combination with Tricentis consultants.

An in-house team implemented it.

The tool was always installed by a dedicated team from the vendor as we had not had an opportunity to know in detail how the installation worked.

We implement it through an in-house team.

Not sure, but I think the basic installation was done by a vendor team.

A vendor team implemented it and they were 9/10.

Upgrades are done in-house, new features are done with vendor.

It was in-house.