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Broadcom Test Data Manager vs Tricentis Tosca comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.1
Broadcom Test Data Manager significantly saves time and money, enhancing testing efficiency, despite lengthy initial deployment and training phases.
Sentiment score
6.7
Tricentis Tosca offers positive ROI through quick test automation, benefiting agile environments by reducing testing time and costs.
Tasks that typically take ten hours are reduced to two to three hours, representing a threefold productivity gain.
Senior Director at Ascendion
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.4
Broadcom Test Data Manager's customer service is praised for being responsive, knowledgeable, and maintaining efficient, proactive communication.
Sentiment score
6.7
Tricentis Tosca's customer service is efficient and knowledgeable, though some users experience delays and desire process improvements.
The overall competence of the support has declined; previously, the support was very good, but recently, it has become difficult to reach them and get solutions, and it's taking a lot of time.
Technical Architect at MOURI Tech
My experience has been positive; their response to emails or phone calls in tech support is fast, usually between eight to ten hours.
Senior Director at Ascendion
There is no way to mark the importance or criticality of incidents when creating them.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Broadcom Test Data Manager effectively scales across platforms, with noted flexibility and some speed challenges handling large datasets.
Sentiment score
7.2
Tricentis Tosca is praised for scalability, effectively managing concurrent tests and meeting enterprise requirements despite some cost challenges.
It covers a breadth of applications and products, demonstrating excellent scalability that I have seen in reality.
Senior Director at Ascendion
Scalability is excellent with Tricentis Tosca.
Senior Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Broadcom Test Data Manager is stable and efficient, with rapid support for minor bugs and generally high user ratings.
Sentiment score
7.4
Tricentis Tosca is generally stable, with minor errors, and users highly rate its reliable automated testing capabilities.
For performance and stability, Tricentis Tosca deserves a 10 out of 10.
Senior Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The stability of Tricentis Tosca is rated ten out of ten. It is very stable.
Senior Director at Ascendion
I find stability issues when using the Vision AI feature; Tricentis Tosca is not very stable.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
 

Room For Improvement

Broadcom Test Data Manager needs improved integration, performance, and UI along with enhanced scalability, security, and data visualization features.
Tricentis Tosca struggles with upgrades, high costs, mobile testing difficulties, and requires improvements in AI, UI, and reporting.
The self-healing process should automatically handle any changes in web applications; for instance, if properties change inside the application, the tool should automatically take care of it, unlike other tools such as Mabl and TestComplete that have better self-healing capabilities.
Technical Architect at MOURI Tech
The Vision AI implementation works very slowly, affecting the speed of our work.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
Moving to a cloud-based application rather than a desktop one could improve Tosca.
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Broadcom Test Data Manager's flexible licensing competes with IBM, may be cost-effective, but pricing varies based on usage and needs.
Tricentis Tosca's pricing is high, appealing to large enterprises with flexible licensing, though costly for smaller companies.
The pricing for Tricentis Tosca is extremely high, and I rate it as ten in terms of expense.
Senior Director at Ascendion
A yearly license costs around 20,000 euros.
Test Automation Specialist at Accenture
For enterprise customers, the cost is manageable because it provides solutions for multiple applications they want to automate.
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Broadcom Test Data Manager excels in synthetic data generation, masking, and subsetting, enhancing compliance, efficiency, and cost savings.
Tricentis Tosca offers model-based automation, scriptless testing, drag-and-drop functionality, and AI optimization, enhancing ease of use and integration.
It allows for drag-and-drop functionality and demo automation in SAP-based applications, which can be challenging with other automation tools.
Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The features I find most valuable in Tricentis Tosca are that it's the easiest way to build the scripts and to do the CI/CD process; using Tricentis Tosca is very useful and easy.
Technical Architect at MOURI Tech
The modular approach reduces scripting effort by at least fifty percent, which significantly cuts down on the script development time.
Senior Director at Ascendion
 

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Test Data Manager
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
Test Data Management (2nd), Data Masking (3rd), AI Synthetic Data (3rd)
Tricentis Tosca
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Service Virtualization (2nd), Functional Testing Tools (1st), Mobile App Testing Tools (1st), Regression Testing Tools (1st), API Testing Tools (2nd), Test Automation Tools (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

Hosney Osman - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone
Offers great utility with synthetic data generation and reliable technical support
Overall, this can definitely be the advantage of the product, and I'm happy with these functionalities that Broadcom provides. I totally recommend any application working on the database layer directly and I don't recommend any applications from other external vendors to perform the same function. Oracle and PostgreSQL have similar applications and they both work directly in the database, reading directly from the database, transforming values in another table within the same database, making it easy to run. The solution is saving me time and money in general because this application saves money and a lot of effort. I can generate any amount of data from Broadcom Test Data Manager, which has a lot of information and equations regarding this task. It saves money because my testing team needs this data to create use cases tested on realistic data. Broadcom Test Data Manager adds great value to my organization, but I believe it can be afforded only in international, large-sized companies. It is not affordable for medium or small-sized organizations.
reviewer2740515 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer 2 at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Automation test development becomes accessible and effective for functional testers
Tricentis Tosca is a codeless tool, making it easy for everyone to understand the transition of how to develop scenarios or test cases. In Tricentis Tosca, analyzing failures is straightforward because every time it fails somewhere, I get the screenshot, which helps me analyze how and why it failed. It has all the modules, including some pre-built ones that can be reused efficiently. Compared to other code tools such as Selenium, where I used to develop one script in one day, with Tricentis Tosca I can easily develop one script in four hours or three hours, saving four to five hours in a day.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
29%
Insurance Company
8%
Computer Software Company
5%
University
5%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Computer Software Company
11%
Retailer
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise30
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise72
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Broadcom Test Data Manager?
In terms of areas for improvement in Broadcom Test Data Manager specifically, I recognize that building the ERD diagram after connecting to the database is very difficult and requires improvement e...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom Test Data Manager?
When it comes to use cases for Broadcom Test Data Manager, clients may use it for data masking. From a service provider perspective, regarding the data masking, data subsetting, and data virtualiza...
What advice do you have for others considering Broadcom Test Data Manager?
If I were to rate their support from one to ten, I would give them a ten. Let's divide the question about Broadcom's standing compared to other vendors. If we talk about Oracle, PostgreSQL, or any ...
How does Micro Focus UFT One compare to Tricentis Tosca?
We reviewed MicroFocus UFT One but ultimately chose to use Tricentis Tosca because we needed API testing. MicroFocus UFT is a performance and functional testing tool. We tested it, and it was well...
How does Tricentis Tosca compare with Worksoft Certify?
Tosca fulfills our business needs better because it is an end-to-end solution across technologies. We like that it is scriptless, so even non-experienced staff can use it. To put it simply, with To...
What do you like most about Tricentis Tosca?
For beginners, the product is good, especially for those who are interested in the quality side of software testing.
 

Also Known As

CA Test Data Manager, DataMaker, DataFinder, Fast Data Masker, CA TDM
Orchestrated Service Virtualization
 

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Sample Customers

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