We performed a comparison between Tricentis Tosca and Xamarin Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."The product enables codeless automation."
"Very user-friendly and the low code automation is really helpful."
"The item that is different from all the other tools is that it's module based."
"The solution has plenty of features compared to other solutions."
"You can quickly build automated testing, manage it, and have it run on a regular basis to ensure that there are no issues."
"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."
"It is easy to maintain and easy to automate. No coding skills are required to automate. It is also easy in terms of transferring knowledge and skills. Many of my team members shifted over the past one and a half years, and there was no big issue with respect to knowledge sharing. It is a good tool that enables me to re-automate my scripts and update my scripts as quickly as possible. Looking at the amount of rework and maintenance activity that we had done for our scripts, it might have been a nightmare with some other scripting tool."
"This solution is very easy to learn and any non-programmer or manual tester, with little experience in automation, can pick it up quite easily."
"It usually saves time for application development. We write once and the code works everywhere."
"Xamarin Platform enables you to use a single code language. This is beneficial for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms, so they can be developed over application or built over application."
"It is a true native solution, and we can use the cross-platform framework."
"I like Renderers in Xamarin. They allow us to use native-platform controls easily."
"Xamarin.Forms reduced the effort and time to build and market our solution, market our features, and get our solution into production."
"Xamarin.Forms are very useful. Essentially, it's a framework that allows me to create the UI mostly in XAML. This XAML code is then translated into the native UI elements for each respective platform."
"You can create one solution in C Sharp."
"The platform is easy to learn as many tutorials are available on YouTube."
"Might have a learning curve, as it does not follow the traditional Record-Play functionality, but tests have to be built from requirements or Agile story cards."
"The document object model or some aspects of it has a bit of a learning curve."
"The tool lags in client-based applications. We have also encountered issues with the features in integrations."
"More and more artificial intelligence (AI) is coming in. So, some amount of AI to create natural language processing (NLP)-based test cases and manage defects would be very helpful. This is because the technologies have evolved in the last five to six months, so there is a potential opportunity there."
"I think the downside would be licensing costs which are very high."
"The product needs to improve its pricing. It also needs to improve the infrastructure and DEX agent setup."
"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."
"The solution should work with the Linux platform. Right now, it only runs on Windows."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"It would be better if they offered more certifications. They offer a number of certifications for Azure but none for Xamarin. This is something that could be provided for developers to show off their competency. Technical support could be better."
"There are compatibility issues between versions of various Xamarin components."
"Xamarin Platform lacks in app size."
"It needs offline sync capabilities to store data on devices persistently."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
"There is limited support for UX widgets."
"Xamarin Platform is missing the code renderer."
Tricentis Tosca is ranked 1st in Regression Testing Tools with 96 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 6th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tricentis Tosca writes "Does not require coding experience to use and comes with productivity and time-saving features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". Tricentis Tosca is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio, Worksoft Certify, Postman and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Appium, Ionic, OutSystems and Apple Xcode.
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