Tricentis Tosca

Avantages

The main feature of this software is , it's codelss. Without any proper coding knowledge we can automate our tests. Tbox reporting is the best solution to generate report for tests. Screenshot can also be taken on test failure. Despite of selenium and appium features it has the features those lack in them. More important is it's codeless.

Inconvénients

For every feature it requires some license, single license never solves your problem. For every features you have to activate them in settings, you can not really work without activating them.

Alternatives envisagées 

Katalon Studio

Pourquoi passer à Tricentis Tosca

Katalon was not that as good as TOSCA with respect to features as well as price point. Tricentis Academy is totally dedicated towards the courses to learn , how to use their products which save efforts of teaching teammates regarding the usecase of products. People having less prior knowledge to coding and testing can also get started to it.

Avantages

1. Test case Design model better than maintaining excel sheets in data2. Test Data Management and DB testing is easy you can cover all BI model in this3. Tosca API testing and performance testing Neoload tool.4. Tosca reports generate by configuration

Inconvénients

Its cost is more, also not platform independent to run the scripts on any host machines without downloading the software itself a lighter version is required.

Avantages

Best thing about this tool is
Scrip less Automation
easy to play around
Good materials in tricentis site
Easy to automation UI and Web services
Can integrate with Azure DevOps

Inconvénients

Least about this tool is
Apart from Tricentis site, no other websites have tutorials or demo about this tool
less support compared to other paid tools
Can not run on Mac OS
Can not integrate with GIT

Avantages

Tosca by Tricentis is a full blown fully featured powerhouse when it comes to automation. Its a very sophisticated software and its pretty clear that the folks at Tricentis really put thought into the automation suite and what it can do. So far, there have been very few things that has come up that it can't do and honestly I'm sure there is a way to accomplish what I tried to do but just have not figured it out yet. The feature-rich software is packed with different modules and objects what will let you script all of your automation in one spot including the test data and test run aspects of automation execution.

Inconvénients

Tosca is very very difficult to learn. As a matter of fact, Tosca offers courses to teach you what Tosca is capable of along with how to do certain tasks. They do a good job of teaching you expected standards so you're not scripting differently lets say to another department within your company. The software is so feature rich though just like a programming language, there are many ways to accomplish the same task at hand. Its one of those programs or concepts that if you don't keep practicing or using Tosca, you will forget how to do things. Given how pricey it is, chances are your question may not be answered online. If it its, Tricentis' online support forms do not parse nicely with Google and therefore makes it even harder for a search engine to find what you're looking for. Most of the support results say something along the lines of Tricentis Tosca - The best automation... Prepare to spend a hefty amount of time learning and developing your Tosca skills.

Avantages

You have a videos for your training when you are starting in the program
Tricentis Tosca is so intuitive and its to easy for the user

Inconvénients

The price, it a litle bit high
when you run the scripts in p most recently, sometimes have problems, and you need remake the script on the new pc

Avantages

The codeless approach which helps all kind of people who doesn't have coding knowledge can learn and do test automation using Tosca. It has its own academy to learn and work.

Inconvénients

The cost is very high for this tool. Also to customize it, it allows only C# language. It should allow other languages also like java or python.

Avantages

Tosca is not as easy to use as it might seem from its advertisements and descriptions.

Inconvénients

It can be hard to start learning and working with Tosca as an Automation tester.

A lot of limitations will be encountered, and the community is small, sometimes being hard to find solutions, in comparison with other automation tools, which are free.

Avantages

It’s very easy to use and very user friendly and very easy to learn.

Inconvénients

The inability to correctly track dynamic objects.

Alternatives envisagées 

UiPath

Avantages

It helps QA users who are manual testers to learn more about automation testing by automating their current test suite without coding, with its drag and drop feature. The XScan feature works great to scan the page and stores the elements.

Inconvénients

It is a bit pricey hence not every company opts for it, the certifications are expensive too.

Avantages

Not many tools in the market can automate test cases with no scripting and still support /Integrate various technologies like Mainframe, Putty, API, UI & java based applications. The tool is very simple and easy to learn.

Inconvénients

Distributed Execution - we have the infrastructure but it gives a lot of issues during the execution.

Avantages

-> Fast Performance
-> Intuitive UI
-> Compatible with lot of applications
-> Cross Browser support

Inconvénients

-> Test case description/Test step can not be formatted
-> No Spell Check
-> Test Case exports to printer,excel or Txt format are not customizable