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Tricentis Tosca pros and cons

Vendor: Tricentis
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Tricentis Tosca ensures data integrity and helps validate data quality, which is crucial for company operations.
Model-Based Test Automation allows for the creation of reusable components, making it a valuable feature for maintaining efficient test scripts.
It is usable by individuals without IT expertise, facilitating operational use and making automation accessible.
Tricentis Tosca provides test automation features that are beneficial for SAP applications and is highly regarded for these capabilities.
The tool is adaptable, being capable of handling web, desktop, mobile, and API applications, broadening its applicability across different platforms.

CONS

The upgrade process needs improvement and should be cleaner from an end-user standpoint.
It only runs on Windows and does not support Linux or other operating systems.
Managing different projects in a single repository or improving data exchange between repositories is difficult.
Performance issues such as loading times and responsiveness were noted, particularly in handling test cases and remapping.
Licensing costs are high, making it less competitive compared to other tools in the market.
 

Tricentis Tosca Pros review quotes

NM
Nov 4, 2019
The Model-Based Test Automation is the most valuable feature, where you can create reusable components. Even though we are using a scriptless automation tool, there still needs to be an understanding of how to create reusable components and how to keep refactoring and how to keep regression, the test scripts, at an okay level. We are coupling Tosca with some other risk-based testing tools, as well, but automation is primarily what we're using Tosca for, the scriptless, model-based technology which is driving automation for us.
reviewer1215411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 24, 2020
Tosca BI is important to make sure that our data integrity is in check and validated; to make sure our data is good. Our data is the number-one important driver for our company, so if that's not good, we have some big problems.
Aditya Chakradhar Nanduri - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 23, 2022
The most valuable feature of Tricentis Tosca is it is a completely scriptless automation tool, which I liked a lot. They keep on continuously improving their tools, wherever we are facing any challenges they are able to provide a solution for it. It is easy to learn, everyone can easily read and understand what is happening with the scripts. Any business user or function tester can use the tool efficiently. This is a complete solution package.
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reviewer1789380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2022
The automation engine is very strong, and it is very competitive in the market in terms of features. They develop a lot of features.
Arun Pakkan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 10, 2022
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.
reviewer1922475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 27, 2022
To me, what stands out the most about Tricentis Tosca is that even if I'm not a technical tester, I could pick up on how to use it very quickly because of the mechanisms of the tool, for example, its scanning mechanism. I'm not so technical, but I'm able to maneuver through Tricentis Tosca and derive capability. It's a user-friendly tool. It's not very complex.
Rafael De La Mano - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 22, 2024
The product's initial setup phase was easy.
reviewer1079316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 7, 2021
The initial setup isn't too difficult.
MB
Oct 11, 2021
What I find valuable is that Tricentis is always refining the test methodology. They listen to feedback from the analysts about what the testing tool should do, and then Tricentis always implements it. So all the necessary testing functions are already implemented in their tools.
Antonio Oteri - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 3, 2024
Tosca can go through platforms to make end-to-end testing across CRM, billing, provisioning, order management flow, and databases to check for errors.
 

Tricentis Tosca Cons review quotes

NM
Nov 4, 2019
There have been some setbacks because of upgrades. While Tosca has been around for a while, Tricentis has catered to smaller clients and I don't think they have done such a large, at-scale transition or transformation before or worked with a company like ours, which is doing an enterprise-wide transformation. When we go to their customer advisory-board meetings, upgrades have been an issue. They have been working a lot to make upgrades seamless.
reviewer1215411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 24, 2020
The main area where there is room for improvement is how they do upgrades. Going through this current upgrade, we were delayed a month because we are using a third-party tool. It's called Tosca Connect by Tasktop. When this latest upgrade broke that relationship between the two, it took Tricentis a month to come back with a workable solution... Their whole upgrade process needs to be better and cleaner, from an end-user standpoint.
Aditya Chakradhar Nanduri - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 23, 2022
Tricentis Tosca could improve on its mobile automation solution.
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reviewer1789380 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2022
Their license management should be improved. One of our customers is a global customer. They want to use one licensed server and then split the licenses based on the different users of the different business units, but currently, there is only one license server that everybody can access. There is no control, and that's why sometimes congestion can happen.
Arun Pakkan - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 10, 2022
The source controls that are in Tricentis Tosca have some problems. For example, if you use Selenium or use Java-based application, it's easy to match code from two developers. However, if you're a developer and going to look at Tricentis Tosca, it's very difficult to use the source control measure.
reviewer1922475 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 27, 2022
In terms of areas for improvement, Tricentis has a variety of tools, even its test management tool called qTest. Tricentis Tosca does have integration with different Tricentis tools, but the integration is geared towards a larger organization perspective. For very small organizations that have minimal licenses, the integration needs to be improvised. For example, I belong to a smaller organization that has only one license, so the capability that the tool provides for integration isn't sufficient because my company needs to have separate workspaces. When Tricentis Tosca is going to be running, it is going to use that license, but my company wants another separate workspace to record, relay, and test. This is what my team has been struggling with, and the mechanism is probably there, but that needs more time and investigation, so I can't say that I'm one hundred percent certain that Tricentis Tosca, in terms of integration for a smaller organization is insufficient. Another area for improvement is that Tricentis Tosca is currently just a Windows-based tool which affects the market because nowadays, Windows isn't the only operating system, for example, there's also Apple or IOS that's moving much faster than Windows.
Rafael De La Mano - PeerSpot reviewer
Jul 22, 2024
I would say the reporting part of the tool is an area of concern where improvements are required.
reviewer1079316 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 7, 2021
The solution is expensive.
MB
Oct 11, 2021
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.
Antonio Oteri - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 3, 2024
They should have a different license policy for medium and small companies.