Tricentis Tosca Other Advice

Srinivasulu Golla - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation testing engineer at Accenture

It is recommended to start with training sessions to understand how to use the tool effectively. Pricing might vary based on your organization's specific needs and requirements, so exploring the pricing options is advised. I rate the product a nine out of ten. 

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Vinayak Bandewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at Cognizant

I give Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten.

We have up to 80 people using the solution.

I highly recommend Tricentis Tosca to others due to its extensive support for numerous technologies and platforms, making it a valuable tool.

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RF
Senior Test Manager at Allianz

My company is using Tricentis Tosca and is an end-user of the solution.

With the Tricentis Tosca installation that my company has, one person is enough for maintenance.

My advice to others looking into implementing Tricentis Tosca is to limit it. I would use it only for specific test automation requirements, and I wouldn't use it for other purposes because it's a very expensive solution.

My rating for Tricentis Tosca is seven out of ten.

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March 2024
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NM
AVP, Testing Service Owner at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Before looking at a tool, it's not just about implementing the tool. It's about having the right mindset to be able to implement a tool. With Tosca, we didn't go and say, "We want to use Tosca. Go." We have a whole training where we talk about what needs to shift, how you need to shift, why we are doing it, and making people understand the intent behind using some of these tools. Otherwise it does not work. We have seen enough failures with other implementations to know that if we don't have the right mindset, these things don't work.

Also, having the right partnership and setting expectations with the vendor is very important. If they have good best-practices and if they know what they're doing, that will help. Having a long-term vision is very important, instead of just saying, "Okay, I'm going to implement Tosca. Go," and not knowing where you want to go or what you want the future to look like. Those are things that helped us a lot in our implementations of Tosca.

One lesson, as I said, is that working with the tool vendor helps. Not that Accenture didn't do a great job. They did. They helped us a lot, especially from a process and best-practices perspective. But having Tricentis in there would have been good.

Tosca was relatively new in the US when we started using it. The roadmap was not fully baked. I would love to work with them on their cloud roadmap. I still don't have a great answer when it comes to cloud roadmap for Tosca, from Tricentis. That's something we're still pushing them on.

Tricentis also has a great relationship with Salesforce and that has helped us a lot. We're trying to push them to have a similar kind of relationship with Guidewire, with Guidewire 10 coming and the cloud option. That's another thing which we will be using Tosca for. We have been asking Tricentis to have some kind of partnership with Guidewire, and they have been asking us if we can introduce them. We're working through that. We have a user group for that with other Tosca users that are in Guidewire and who are moving to Guidewire 10.

It would be great if Tricentis could take a look ahead at some of these big vendors, packaged applications, and form some relationships with them. That would help companies like us who are heavy users of these packaged applications. We would like to see something similar to what they have done with SAP and with Salesforce. Guidewire is big right now. That's an area they have not done anything in yet.

We were an IBM shop. We used to use Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirements Composer. We're shifting to JIRA for requirements. We're still looking at what we will use for persistent requirements, but right now it's JIRA. Even if users want to use Tosca for requirements, and there are teams who are doing it because it helps us get good coverage, we still use JIRA and then we try to integrate from JIRA to Tosca, but we have not done that yet.

Tosca has a risk-based functionality, which we are not using, which they added after we started with Tosca. It can take a look at the data and say, "Hey, you have 200 test cases and you are getting 50 percent coverage based on the requirements that you have in Tosca. You can get the same coverage using 100 test cases." The reason we didn't use the Tosca's risk-based testing is that risk-based testing is applicable irrespective of the tool. Since Tosca is not something that is the only standard at our company — we have multiple tools — we had to choose a tool that we could use across the enterprise and not be dependent on the Tosca licenses. So we use another tool for risk-based testing.

When you talk about redundancy, there are two aspects. One is: We have been using Tosca for three years; we have 2,000 scripts. Even though Tosca has all the functionality by being model-based with reusability, not everyone understands that. In these past three years, new people might have come in and added test scripts and test cases without knowing that something already existed. They may have created duplication and redundancy. Can Tosca go and help us with that? I don't think so. We are actually looking for a tool that can help us do that. We were looking at Saffron AI Suite, which is an Intel product, but Intel decided not to support it. We're still looking for a tool that can help us with duplication. 

But what we are doing is from a data perspective is the following: If I say, "Hey, here is my data, here is my test case, here are the data elements that are needed. Tell me what is the minimum number of scripts I need to get maximum coverage?" Tosca can do that. But as I said, we didn't want to depend on Tosca because we're not using Tosca across the enterprise. We're using another tool called Hexawise to help us do that and it's something that we're implementing across the company. It is much more cost-effective for us than having Tosca licenses for everyone. Tosca is expensive. We're trying to use the output from Hexawise to create test cases in Tosca to help us get that minimum number of test cases we need to get the maximum coverage. That coupling has been working well for us.

Maintenance is better with Tosca. The way Tosca is structured, it tells you where your tests are failing and the like. If I have nine quality engineers for an application and they are spread across three build teams, if they have the continuous integration implemented, whatever issues or errors come up, we expect them to keep maintaining things on a go-forward basis. Maintenance is absolutely easier with Tosca, provided it has been implemented the right way. We're not differentiating between people who are doing build work versus people who are doing maintenance. It's the same people. We expect them to build the test cases and maintain them as well.

I would rate Tosca at about eight out of ten. We're pretty happy with the results we've seen with Tosca.

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Alex Melendez - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate this solution 9 out of 10. 

Something that people should probably be looking at is how technical their team is and whether or not they can do coding. If they are more on the business side where they know all the different flows of the business cases or scenarios, that would be a very good way to use the tool because technical expertise is not required. You should have a couple of resources, but it's not necessary to have  high technical skills.

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SK
Senior Software Engineer at MOURI Tech

We are partners. 

I'm working with the latest version of the solution. 

I would recommend the solution since the tool is user-friendly and easy to use. It comes with a lot of features, and it's a very powerful tool. I would definitely recommend it compared to other tools.

I'd rate it nine out of ten overall.

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M. Elsayed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer at Expleogroup

Our company is partnered with Tricentis.

We're using the latest version of the solution. 

I'd recommend the solution to others. It's user-friendly, easy to learn, and doesn't require any coding. New users, however, must take some lessons before starting with it. Most of the time, they might have colleagues to transfer knowledge and that makes things simpler. Still, it's really easy.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

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Manoj Thakkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I rate this solution an eight out of ten. From a UI perspective, there are no issues, but pricing could be better. Our clients had been asking for this solution for over two years, and pricing was the main reason we didn't have it. I would recommend this solution to other companies if they have the budget.

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

From experience from using UFT, if they just compare UFT to Tricentis Tosca, I think Tricentis Tosca is a great tool compared to any other tool I have experienced.

UFT is much more heavy compared to Tricentis Tosca which is lightweight and easy to learn and to work with. The stability of the Tricentis Tosca application is great. There is no scripting required in Tricentis Tosca as there is in UFT. However, there is more web scripting. You can do scripting separately and if you're going for a commercial tool Tricentis Tosca is the one to choose.

I rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten.

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Test Process Consultant - PeerSpot reviewer
SME (Subject Matter Expert) at Maersk

We did not fully utilize its integration with the test management tool, but it was working fine. 

My recommendation would be to go through Tricentis documentation and the best practices that they are proposing. Wherever required, set up a knowledge-sharing session with Tricentis. 


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GaneshMuralidharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Delivery Head at Vaisesika consulting

For maintenance, only one person who is an admin is required.

The solution's features are good.

I think whoever wants to use it should understand the tool's capabilities first before taking a dive so they can try a PoC with the tool and then go ahead to use it. I rate the product a seven out of ten.

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

I rate Tricentis Tosca nine out of 10. The tool has multiple features, and it covers a variety of applications, It's accessible, so anyone can use it even if they're not a technical person. But if you have some programming knowledge, you can create your own customized functions and automate any Windows application. Integration is straightforward, and test management tools are also available. 

A person can get an ES1 and ES2 certification by viewing a video tutorial before starting the actual scripting. They complete the certification work with any demo application to learn how to scan the objects, execute test cases. Tricentis supports 95 percent of applications, and it covers a broad range of areas, like DB, ETL, and website automation. 

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KC
SAP Test Manager at Apexon

Tricentis Tosca does not provide much support for reports and mobile automation. The speed of execution of mobile automation is low. Also, test case creation and the creation of models take a lot of time in the mobile engine.

Overall, I would rate Tricentis Tosca at eight on a scale from one to ten with one being the worst and ten being the best.

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

The major challenges that we face with any automation tool are with respect to whenever there are any modifications. For example, when we are working on a tool, such as Selenium or something which is a script-based automation tool. Whenever there are any changes that have to be done, instead of modifying the existing scripts, we normally tend to recreate the script because it takes less time to create a new script rather than updating the existing script, which might be developed by someone else. To understand where the test case is getting failed. However, this is not an issue in Tricentis Tosca where the major issue of maintenance of the scripts is very easy because we have a Tricentis Tosca coding language where you can update your multiple test cases simultaneously.

There were instances in my past experience where the customers informed us that Tricentis Tosca was not good. They said they were not going to implement it again. One of the most important things to know about the tool is how it works. For example, if we are having a knife, we need to know how to use it. If we don't use it properly, there will be some consequences. However, if you know how to use the knife it can be extremely useful for man things.

For any tool to work more efficiently and properly, we need to know how to use it properly. They are providing the certifications and the solutions for free for anyone who wants to learn and implement it. Normally I recommend people to learn Tricentis Tosca and then start implementing it, rather than jumping into automation, using this tool.

I rate Tricentis Tosca a nine out of ten.

I like Tricentis Tosca a lot compared to other automation tools that I've worked on. That's why I recommended Tricentis Tosca. If I have to choose any tool for automation to automate a specific application, I would choose Tricentis Tosca before other automation tools.

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MS
Principal Test Automation Consultant at SSI Software Services GmbH

Cost is a significant factor. Tosca has strong features that may not be suitable for every product or project. Tosca should provide a free community learning platform for individuals to explore Tosca before making a purchasing decision. Tosca is primarily focused on SAP environments. SAP is a player in the IT landscape. Tosca's scope extends beyond just SAP to address various testing needs across different domains within IT.

Tosca has strong integration with SAP systems. Tosca is a comprehensive test automation tool that caters to various domains, including medical, fintech, e-commerce, B2B, B2C, communication applications, and other role-based applications. Tosca can also be applied to automate testing across a wide range of IT industry sectors. It's a well-known tool in the market for its versatility and effectiveness in test automation beyond the SAP ecosystem.

We are working with the MBT approach. Tosca is compatible with SDET practices, and its main purpose is achieved through model-based test automation.

Tricentis Tosca offers built-in libraries for integration purposes, allowing users to implement various integrations seamlessly. Test cases can be executed by configuring AWS, Azure, or DFS integrations. These integrations are built-in and provide capabilities that enhance convenience and flexibility.

Tosca is a robust and competent solution, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to capture locators, record test cases, and execute actions across various UI platforms. It is compatible with the latest technologies like TypeScript, JavaScript, Angular, and other user interface platforms. I highly recommend this solution for those who are considering purchasing it

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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

We are end-users and customers. 

We are using the latest version of the solution, although I can't speak t the exact version number. 

We have the solution on the AWS and Azure clouds and we also have it on-premises. 

I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's stable and it works, however, the cost is high. You also need a high level of knowledge in order to use it. You can't just pull someone off the street and make them a user. There's a definite learning curve. 

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

If you're going to have somebody come in and help set up, don't go with a third-party vendor, but have Tricentis consultants come in, do training, and help set up. It's worth the extra money to have them come in and do right, versus a third-party that might not know everything. That was our experience. We tried the third-party route to help us, and we immediately saw that it was not the right way to go. That's when we went to Tricentis themselves to come in and help us.

The biggest lesson I've learned is more connected to the tool's adoption. If people have been doing the same thing for over ten years, it tends to be a little bit hard for them to switch over because they want to do things the way they've always been doing them. But the tool itself is fairly simple. It's a pretty solid tool.

There are a few ways to overcome the resistance to new technology. But it's really about creating urgency around why the tool is important to the company and why people need to adopt it. We've done lunch-and-learns to help people understand it. We also champion any success stories with the tool, through newsletters that go out. Sometimes, it's just about bringing in new people with the right mindset.

We've slowly been increasing our rate of testing automation using Tosca. We did a digital transformation with SAFe Agile, and then with adopting test automation. So the tool-adoption piece has taken a little bit longer. We're not quite where we want to be yet. We're still building on it. Tosca covers about 50 percent of our test cases at this point. The solution hasn't reduced our cost of testing yet. We're still a little immature in this process.

In terms of delivering more features for release, we are watching features but we're not there yet. We're just not mature enough to have those hard facts to help us state that this is helping complete more features. From a defects standpoint, we're trying to get a better handle on how defects are captured here, because before there wasn't a concise, approved process on defects. Everybody did their own thing and I'm pretty sure things fell through the cracks. People weren't identifying defects as defects. That's another one of the things we're trying to get better at.

Tricentis keeps building on BI and Tosca itself, and they're just getting better and better every time. A lot of the things they're focusing on are the right things.

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

For a manual tester who wants to become an automation specialist with no programming skills, this is the right tool for the future.

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Navin Jacob - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

So, if you need to accelerate the delivery of your solution and leverage the low-code, no-code platform, that's where you can actually bring in quite a lot of automation with the region type in Tricentis Tosca. Maintaining your test scenarios, running them immediately to create mind maps, and then using new-generation tools like xMine to integrate with Tricentis Tosca can significantly reduce the testing cycle time from a typical 20-35% of the software engineering cycle to as low as 10%. This can significantly improve the turnaround time for decision-making.

I would rate it a seven out of ten. There are lots of alternatives that are available at a good price point. So when you are working with large customers who have big budgets, bigger budgets, certain places are something that they are going to take up. When they are working with medium-sized customers, potentially, the signatures could actually address that.

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SB
Manager - Quality Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Nowadays, everybody is trying to copy Tricentis Tosca because it is a leader in this space. It is the leader as per Gartner, Forrester, and PeerSpot. Every tool has its pros and cons. One particular product that I liked was Provar, which is specifically for Salesforce. They really went into the code to track any changes. Apart from that, open-source solutions are its biggest competitors. I've seen a lot of open-source frameworks that are better than Tosca and have the flexibility on the containerization side and the reporting side, but from the commercial tool perspective, Tosca is a leader in every aspect. I haven't seen any other tool that has a better capability than Tosca. The automation engine is pretty strong in Tosca.

If you have a manual testing background, it is much easier to adapt to Tosca, but if you're coming from a coding background, you will have to unlearn and think from a manual tester's perspective and work with Tosca. There is a learning curve. So, you need to go through that learning curve, and you should be ready for that. It isn't very complicated, but you definitely need to spend some time. You would need at least two to three months. Their training is not that great. It gives you a basic idea, but it doesn't give you project-related ideas. You really need to work on real-time projects to actually understand the value of the tool.

I would rate it an eight out of 10. There are certain things that they can improve. Apart from those, it is pretty good.

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LE
Bid Manager - Expert Continuous Testing at Sogeti UK

We use the on-premises deployment model.

My advice to others is to get training by a professional. This will help anyone use the product. Tosca allows users, even if they don't have some IT knowledge, to quickly start and use Tosca after about two weeks. You can take any business person, and just offer them good training. After about two weeks or a month, they could be independent and will be able to automate some complex scenarios. You don't have to be an IT specialist to handle the product. 

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

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AshokKumar14 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at ITC Infotech

I rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten. 

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AH
Sr. Product Manager - Intelligent Automation & RPA at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

If the teams are implementing and they are doing agile development and want to stay on track with their agile deliveries, the automated testing goes hand in hand. Tosca can be an excellent enabler for you to be able to do the testing at a much faster pace than if you were trying to do that with other manual testing and that does not slow you down.

It works very well if the organization is trying to move toward a more agile approach, and the ability to do automated testing lends itself very well to it.

I would rate Tricentis Tosca a nine out of ten. It's pretty good.

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Stinu Easo - PeerSpot reviewer
SAP S4HANA Finance, Treasury & Automation Test Consultant at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

Tricentis Tosca is a testing tool, so we can implement it in any software projects.

The tool is only applicable for on-premises deployment. Currently, it's not possible to deploy it via public or private cloud.

I'm using version 15 of Tricentis Tosca.

I did the deployment of the tool myself, and didn't use an integrator, reseller, or consultant. One person can deploy Tricentis Tosca.

We have 1000+ people in our environment who are using the tool.

Product-wise, I'm rating Tricentis Tosca eight out of ten. Service or support-wise, my rating for it is six out of ten.

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ST
Senior Consultant at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I am in the QA side, and I have almost 20 years of experience in QA. I'm doing all the automations. My experience with commercial tools are customer specific, e.g. if the customer wants to use a specific tool. I have experience on object-based tools and other types, on the commercial side. We use OneSource libraries and the custom frameworks, so that's where I have more experience, compared to commercial tools.

I don't have any current projects with Tricentis Tosca, but my company has a partnership with Tricentis. I'm not in the delivery team, e.g. I'm on the CoE team. Our application testing is more on digitally managing application drivers, so our scope on application testing is minimal. However, everyone's going digital nowadays, e.g. there's the remote setting and other things to come, so we utilize browser-based solutions, testing, mobile, etc.

I'm part of the CoE team where our work involves solutioning, initial designs, and choosing the right tools. We don't get into the product and use the same tool for a long time, in particular, we do a POC. With Tricentis Tosca, we have asked our teams to do a POC using it, because there is nothing more important than learning the tool, so that it can be easily understandable. Based on customer demand, we have done a few POCs for the tool, so our team isn't really involved in the full lifecycle of a project.

Katalon Studio is very similar to Tricentis Tosca, and price-wise, it's lower. This is why I don't compare Tricentis Tosca with TestComplete. I compare the tool with Katalon Studio, which is an open source robot that's similar to Tricentis Tosca, but because it's a free rule, you cannot have everything from it when compared to Tricentis Tosca.

My experience or my inputs on what to add to this solution, or what I'd like to see from it in the next release, would not be great, because our team is not into applications that much. Our scope of testing the applications is minimal. We are more into the panel-based devices and smart devices, e.g. POS (point of sale) or Point of Care devices in the medical field, or input devices, aeronautical flight attendance panels, etc. Those are the areas we are involved in, so they are purely embedded domains.

I'm giving Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten rating.

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AZ
Lead QA Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

My company uses Tricentis Tosca.

My advice to people looking into implementing the tool is that it's great to use, but you need to be more hands-on. Tricentis has certifications available, so the more you advance your skillset and get yourself certified, you'll learn all the mechanisms of how Tricentis Tosca can be used. So far, the tool ticked most of the boxes based on my company's needs.

I'm rating Tricentis Tosca nine out of ten. I didn't give it a perfect score because it's currently based on Windows only, and its cost is high but other than those two cons, everything has been great about the product.

My company is just a user. It has no partnership with Tricentis Tosca.

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix

For organizations who want to aim for a unified continuous testing platform, and are willing to pay for it, Tricentis Tosca can be a decent investment.

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Vinayak Bandewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at Cognizant

The biggest lesson that I have learned from using Tricentis Tosca is that for test automation, you are not required to be a programmer or very technical.

Overall, this is a good product and I definitely recommend it.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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Terry Doherty - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Avocado Consulting

I use the latest version of Tricentis Tosca. The solution does not require any maintenance because it is all done automatically by the vendor.

I've not found any issues with Tricentis Tosca, and I would recommend it to other users.

Overall, I rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten.

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KG
Senior QA Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I did some certifications on Tosca. I tried to do some POCs as well. I'm using the latest version of the solution, which may be 3.2 or 3.5. 

I would advise new users to not go with writing the test cases manually. Try to start automating directly in Tosca, as that would help to save time. If you write manual test cases as well and then we try to automate to Tosca, it takes a lot of time. It's better to jump in right away with the automation-first mindset approach and start writing in Tosca so that you could use it in every execution cycle.

On top of that, if you have a different cycle for business users to do the testing or they are testing at the user acceptance testing, you can give them the test use for Tosca as well. It's pretty easy to use, straightforward and it would save time.

I would rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

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LV
Architecture Manger at a government with 201-500 employees

I would recommend this solution for browser testing because it's stable, and you can test a lot with it. It has a good user interface for testing and when managing you don't have to do a record all the time. It can be easy to maintain and use scripts.
For SAP and embedded browser apps it doesn't work fine.

Also it is not suitable anymore for users without a technical background.

Tricentis is a growing organization and Tosca is not holding the standards it used to have.

I rate Tricentis Tosca a six out of ten.

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MS
AVP at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the overall product a seven out of ten. The tool is easy if you are able to find the right set of people. 

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Nigel Powell - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead Engineer at Test Performance

When reviewing the tool, you should make sure that any automation you've already got integrates fully with the Tosca tool. That's the biggest thing. Migration of any current automation is potentially a really difficult process.

I'd give it an eight out of ten.

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KC
Senior E2E Solution Engineer at Planet

The academy on user interface and the API introduction I found very useful. It has helped me understand some of the features available.

I rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten.

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DS
IT Consultant with 10,001+ employees

If you are up to end-to-end test automation, then please give Tosca a try.

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AnantJoshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director-Intelligent Automation at Truglobal

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

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it_user377766 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Manager at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

I would say, take the training and go in to the product and use it the way they recommend to use it. They trained as and it works well. Some listen and kindly say we will use it the Tricentis way and don’t, they end up seeing problems. If I were to make a recommendation, Tricentis is as the top of the list.

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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

The best way to look into the solution, you have to experience things for yourself. Have technical support from the beginning so that you have guidance early on.

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

My advice for anybody who is implementing this product is to make use of the extensive library that they have. It is a good collection of training videos and documentation, and I would advise everybody to go through these materials. They are really helpful and it will allow them to learn much faster, bringing them to the point where they can use it to its full potential.

In summary, I am really comfortable with this tool, I haven't had many problems, and it's sufficient for our work. In the three years that I have been working with it, whenever I've needed something, I've been able to find it.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

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

The vendors' videos and webinars are of great help, so I would like them to keep coming up with more.

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

I think it’s important to get the training that is provided and really make sure you get hands-on time with the product. That’s our problem -- we haven’t been able to dedicate ourselves to it. If we had the time to stay with it and learn it then we could move forward.

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

I rate Tricentis Tosca a nine out of ten.

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

I rate Tosca nine out of 10. So if you are considering this solution, I recommend that you make sure your team is good and stable in test definition. Also, you should build up your organization's competence in test automation. That way, you can get the most out of the tool and utilize its capabilities to benefit your organization. But there are challenges with a large organization internally. For example, we first had a central team for test automation. Then we moved to HL and de-centralized our test automation team. Unfortunately, that didn't work so well since it requires some specialized knowledge that you need to learn and to practice. So now we are trying to move again to centralized test automation and get more value for the business.

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AO
DevOps lead at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

My advice is if companies have developers, or the potential to teach developers, or QA teams, I would suggest they use Selenium because the price of Tricentis Tosca is expensive.

I rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten.

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JH
Conductor with 11-50 employees

I would recommend this solution to others, but in our country, I believe the importance of testing is currently ignored or underestimated. It is not popular in our country at this moment but I will recommend this tool.

We are partners with Tricentis.

I would rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten.

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MR
Regional Test Coordinator at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate Tosca eight out of 10. The only disadvantage is the high price. Still, I would say it's worth trying because the barrier is low to implement automation, and it works with a broad scope of technologies and applications.

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SM
Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The recommendation of this solution depends from client to client and what their requirements would be, the parameters, and what is important to them. 

If the client wants good support and at the same time they want to have a good database included with the Automation Testing Suite, and is ready to spend the money, then we would definitely suggest Tricenta Tosca as a good option.

Again, it is dependant on the client's requirements and what they would want in an automation tool.

If you have Linux or Mac machines, then it gets very difficult to implement Tosca. I would suggest using it. 

For testing, they would want to migrate miscellaneous scripts and use Tosca for those migrations. But, it's very difficult. 

My suggestion would be to go with the Tricentis Suites and the Selenium Automation Suites.

From a positive perspective, I would want people to use the reporting from Tosca. They have very good reporting. The reporting feature is very user-friendly and very easy to use.

I would rate Tricenta Tosca an eight out of ten.

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ZS
Senior Test Consultant at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Overall, the product works fine. With respect to errors in the product, there is nothing in particular that comes to mind. If there were issues then I was always able to work my way around them.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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

Do extensive research and experiment a lot. Solutions work differently in different environments, make sure you pick the best for your specific needs.

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

I am really satisfied with the product.

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VR
Enterprise Resources Planning Specialist at Doyensys

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

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MP
Technical Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would definitely recommend this product to my colleagues or my friends because it is very useful if they are using the Tosca Query Language (TQL). We can find exact data from any project, which is one of the best benefits. It is a very easy, convenient product for everyone.

Tricentis Tosca is very easy to understand. We can reuse data, and no redundant data is required. I like this tool. I am also interested in self-learning this tool and its features. 

I would rate Tricentis Tosca an eight out of ten. It's very good performance-wise.

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

You should be very careful if you have to customize Tosca because it could be very expensive, so take your time to evaluate it. Test it with many applications, many objects, and many controls.

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gagneet - PeerSpot reviewer
Continuous Delivery Lead at SAI Global

Take the online training on Udemy before you confirm the intent to buy it.

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DW
Tax Fee QA Director at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

I'd recommend people do a proof of concept (POC) around Tosca and compare it to other available tools. That way, an organization will know if the solution is right for them without investing too much time into everything.

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

It is a good tool, but could be better in some aspects.

It’s relatively easy to set it up and intuitive to create test cases for non-developers. If you come from the development side you will feel some limitations, but I was always able to find a workaround.

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it_user292620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Manager at a tech consulting company

It is a mighty and stable tool, but it needs qualified and motivated staff to work with and manage it.

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it_user330945 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Business Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Try it out and do a Proof of Concept.

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

Be prepared to change how you approach test automation – definitely a mindset shift. It's highly configurable so you want to make good use of that. Don’t be afraid to ask for help from Tricentis, they will get back to you. Have a good bank balance because it’s not cheap.

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

I would advise that, if one needs to install Tosca for test automation, always go for the latest version, as Tricentis is implemeting all the user feedbacks genuinely in their tools and it is evolving and has a great potential.

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

We would always advise customers to have experts involved during a test automation implementation. Generally, we recommend conducting a POC to prove that the solution works technically for your systems, then we recommend a pilot project, to prove that the business benefits can be realized, and to provide experience about the product. Along with the POC and the pilot, a portfolio analysis should also be conducted to determine which test suites should be automated.

Expert consultants, like our test automation specialists, should conduct the POC and be heavily involved in the pilot. With an ongoing involvement during subsequent projects, and can also be brought in to supplement the team.

Try the Tosca Udemy course and download a trial to get a feel for Tosca as a product. Then, reach out to the local Tricentis Partner or the Tricentis Services Team for help with a POC and ongoing Tosca implementation. Ask for case studies and reference sites from any consultancy company when implementing any test automation tool. These case studies/references should ideally be local and tool specific. Expertise in other tools doesn't always translate to successful implementation in another.

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AM
Senior Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra

With it being a scriptless tool, it helps people without coding knowledge to work with ease.

The amazing features provided by Tricentis takes automation to a different world and it's fun working with it.

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it_user390288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Tricentis

The tool is a desktop application and comes with all advantages and disadvantages of a desktop application in terms of deployment and scalability.

There is a cloud version (TaaS), but this version is only suitable for manual tests and web tests. Web applications need to be publicly accessible within the cloud environment (so it is not suitable for internal testing environments). It would be a nice feature if the cloud version of Tricentis Tosca Testsuite is able to drive your locally installed application.

Do not buy this tool if you simply need a driver for your automation, as open source solutions (e.g. Selenium), or technology specific solutions are more suitable here. Also, if you are looking for a complete ALM solution, there are more capable tools out there. If you have a testing department full of techies, they will feel too restricted with the tool. It’s also not suitable for manual testing only, as there are better solutions for this purpose out there. But, if you have the plan to test multiple technologies, and your testing departments consists mainly of business domain experts or software tester with few technical background, and you are planning to introduce this tool as an enterprise solution and/or want to replace existing fragmented solutions, then it is worth evaluating it.

You definitely want to have a product training first prior to implementation, and you definitely want to have on-site consultancy while making your first steps with the tool. In most cases, you also need technical consultancy in cases the tool does not recognize UI controls.
Focus on a small prototype project first together with on-site consultancy. Take the learnings from that project, and do the next one on your own.

The company is a lot smaller than the top dogs, but they are compensating it with passion and a lot of new features in every release.

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

Check the efforts of your manual testing per application every year, and then decide on what, and how, to automate. Usually there should be an ROI at the latest, after using Tosca Testsuite for two years.

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

Great tool for testing, but only when used by an educated tester or by somebody who's gone through the whole course and had at least a little bit of practice. It's worth it.

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

My most important criteria when selecting a vendor are its technology and is it stable enough.

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

Start with a pilot project, have Tricentis or a partner support the setup, pilots and extensions.

Tricentis is very good in communicating and sharing test best practices and often ahead in offering new trends in development and testing.

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it_user742722 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Give it a go. Having since used Selenium to build an automation suite in another organisation, I feel Tosca has clear advantages in both the scope of applications that it can automate (web, mobile, windows, and more) as well as the intuitive GUI and powerful generation of test data combinations. Having not come from an IT background, I was able to get up and running with Tosca far quicker than with Selenium.

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

I prefer TDD with SpecFlow and Cucumber using a coded UI. These tools need to be integrated with Tosca to drive the TDD approach in automation.

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it_user606489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Engineer at Infosys

If you are looking for automation of the packaged application and less maintenance, then go for Tosca.

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

Be sure you are ready to support it earnestly with training and focus. If you do that, then it is worthwhile.

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it_user739683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Salesforce Admin/Tester/TOSCA Automation Tester at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I will recommend using TOSCA to all users who want to automate their applications or who want to work daily without any hassle.

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it_user509592 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

TOSCA Testsuite is a very good automation tool. It supports a wide variety of application automation. This tool provides a very efficient way of automation and also it is compatible with many other tools involved in the testing process like Quality Center, etc.

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

Figure out your requirements and environment.

We had the impression Tosca would be the perfect fit for us. We did a proof of concept test with all our applications, Tosca was able to work with them and drive the proof of concept goal. Finally, we made a decision a year ago to work with Tricentis Tosca. We are quite happy with the product. 

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

I would definitely recommend this tool. It is user friendly, once you get used to it, and it is easy to implement. You might have to struggle initially to understand Tosca and its approach.

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JK
Senior Test Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would recommend this solution to others. It has the capability of doing many types of tests.

I rate Tricentis Tosca a seven out of ten.

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

The tool is very different than other testing tools and it is important to explain some of these different to all the stakeholders to ensure they really understand the benefits at their level.

By that I mean that a tester might see benefit in the ease of automation but a business user will see benefit in the risk coverage visualization, for example.

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

Go for the product if you are looking for faster automation.

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

It is a good product, with online tutorials, knowledge base, etc.

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Tricentis Tosca
March 2024
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