Tricentis Tosca Room for Improvement

Srinivasulu Golla - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation testing engineer at Accenture

The product needs to improve object identification. The identify with properties and anchor methods work perfectly, while the by-index and image methods may face challenges.

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Vinayak Bandewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at Cognizant

Tricentis Tosca currently does not support any mobile testing and can be improved.

I am interested in exploring the features related to artificial intelligence that can help generate data feeds and assist in reducing the time required to design scripts. Therefore, I would like to see AI-related features in the upcoming phase.

The quality of the technical support and the response time has room for improvement.

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RF
Senior Test Manager at Allianz

What needs to be improved in Tricentis Tosca is its centralized repository mechanism because it's not as flexible. The repository in the solution where you store the data and the script for test automation is quite an old-fashioned mechanism that could be improved.

An additional feature I'd like to see in the next release of Tricentis Tosca is a distributed repository mechanism because it's required in the current installation for my company.

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

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 on the agenda an issue. They have been working a lot to make upgrades seamless.

There have been cases where we have needed customization because things haven't worked with the out-of-the-box functionality of Tosca. Customizations are VB and C# and those are not a "go-forward" for our company from a technology perspective, so we have asked Tricentis to do all the customizations for us. There have been cases where we have gone back because of the upgrades that they have done. We had to redo and re-scan things. 

Since we operate at such a large scale, we want to limit ourselves to one or two upgrades a year. That was our biggest complaint, when we went to California this year in May we told them they need to make their upgrade process more seamless. Initially, it felt like anytime we took an upgrade, we had to go back and re-scan everything. There was a combination of having to do re-scanning but also our not knowing how we should do things. In the last six months or so, we have reached a place where that has been much better. The last upgrade that we took was much more seamless than the first upgrade we took this year. They have made great strides in helping us do that.

With regression testing, the challenge we are now facing is data. That's a whole other effort that we are working on, as test data is a problem. This is especially true where a system gets data from five other areas. It is very dependent on their data. Until we are in a place where we can do end-to-end testing, or we can virtualize their data, even though we may have 100 percent automation, it does not help. We are working with Tricentis on this, and we are working at some other tools as well.

From a testing automation-perspective, we are still continuing the journey. It's going to go to 2020. We have areas that we have not touched yet. We are heading there but we are also starting to take a look at data to see how can we combine the automation that we have done with test data to have an automated CI/CD pipeline. We have gained a lot of confidence by implementing automation using Tosca. If we hit any roadblocks, it's more from a data perspective.

From where they were at when we started with Tosca in 2018, to where they are now, they have made huge changes and enhancements to their features. It's much better. And I think they have gained as much from partnering with us on this large-scale enterprise as we have.

Tricentis is pretty open to helping and working on any enhancements and patches. If you ask Tricentis, they will say qTest has all the capabilities we are looking in integration. We are going with JIRA, and we have tools like Hexawise and GitHub. One thing we would like to see is integration of Tosca with those. We know their qTest is integrated with everything, but not everybody is necessarily going to take qTest. We are looking at qTest as an option for replacing defect management, but we are not sure we will be going that route. If companies don't have qTest and only have Tosca, integration is an area where there is room for improvement in Tosca.

Finally, Tosca is on-prem right now. We have VDIs that have the Tosca agents installed. We have a very aggressive cloud roadmap as a company for moving our applications to the cloud. We are trying to work with Tricentis to help us make the move. We would love it if the Tosca agents could be installed on Docker instead of VDI. But I don't think Tricentis is ready for that yet. I don't think Tosca is actively on the cloud, so we are using the on-prem.

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

The technology stack that they have now is bigger than when it started. That gives us more flexibility on aligning to one single tool to get automation from different technologies in one test scenario. Instead of dividing them and splitting them into different parts, we can go from end to end with this tool.

I would like to see more implementation of AI on the self-healing aspect. That would be like the next step.

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SK
Senior Software Engineer at MOURI Tech

In Tosca, I see that there are no user guides. So basically, if you want to automate something, you have to really do some research and then start doing it. Having documentation would be helpful, and that is something that needs to be provided, maybe as a jump start to getting going with the product.

There are certain engines that are available that will identify the objects. Yet, there are some engines that are not available, so we need to customize them.

The setup can take a while as the licensing is confusing. 

The response time for support can be slow. 

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M. Elsayed - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Technical Engineer at Expleogroup

Every tool has a disadvantage. There are some technologies that are not scanned, for example. 

The product needs more technology coverage when scanning modules as not all the modules can be scanned and we have to check for workarounds. We have to overcome the fact that not every technology can be scanned using the module scanner.

It can be quite expensive. 

The product does not have an open-source option. 

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

We are still exploring the solution but would like a capability where the infrastructure has a code that we can verify using Tricentis Tosca. We are examining how to integrate this with the keyboard and our credentials through Tosca. We want to integrate with other solutions for credential repositories, so we don't need to provide a username and password in the solution explicitly. It would be good if it could grab a specific key and utilize it in the task for execution.

Currently, with Tricentis Tosca, we need to install it as an application on our machine, but it would be better if we could assess a solution. It requires some coding customization that requires expertise, so having free services along with the licenses would be good. Some clients have complained that they need to pay for additional services every time they open a ticket.

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

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.

If you have any issues with the tool, we had to go to the support system of Tricentis Tosca. We cannot change anything, such as the DLL files. We had to wait for them to deploy the package and it takes time. If I have some tool issue, it takes a month to resolve it, because normally the DLL comes, and then we have to recompile everything and then deploy it. It takes a lot of time. 

We use Copado as our CI/CD pipeline and Copado has no integration with Tricentis Tosca. Other solutions can support Copado, such as Jenkins or Areo. We are using a different approach to do the CI/CD operations.

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

They can make it more stable. I have used this tool for SAP applications. Tricentis's alliance with SAP mostly worked fine, but there were very few glitches. However, we got the required support from the Tricentis team.

They are coming up with their new versions and upgrades with respect to how the Tricentis systems as cloud applications are updated, and it would be good if they have a robust accelerator pack.

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GaneshMuralidharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Delivery Head at Vaisesika consulting

I think the downside would be licensing costs which are very high. Other than that, when it comes to any new issues, the tool is not supporting some features in the application, and then the need for customization comes as a drawback. These customizations are expensive, and we have to pay for them.

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

First, Tricentis could improve Tosca's Linux scripting. We can automate Linux scripting, but there are a few commands that Tosca doesn't support. DVS support and the object identification mechanism could also be better. 

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KC
SAP Test Manager at Apexon

With regard to areas of improvement, report customization should be easier. It would be good if Tosca could provide standard reports for at least 20 variants. At present, there are only three to four variants.

The mobile engine needs to be faster and easier to use; it is a bit cumbersome. Also, the object identification in the mobile engine needs improvement.

I would like to see easy-to-use customizations for reports in the next release.

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

Tricentis Tosca could improve on its mobile automation solution.

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MS
Principal Test Automation Consultant at SSI Software Services GmbH

The solution is expensive compared to other tools in the market.

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

The solution does not have one catch-all product. For example, if you wanted the DB for Business Intelligence, it's a different module that you have to purchase. If you want to do API testing, you need to buy a different module. If you want to do performance testing, which we haven't bought yet, you would need to buy another module. There are a lot of modules you have to buy in order to have full-blown testing capabilities. I understand that they're breaking them up so people who don't want everything aren't forced into things they won't use. However, for those that do want all of the functionality, it can get costly. 

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

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. To me, that resulted in critical customer impact and it took way too long for them to resolve. Their whole upgrade process needs to be better and cleaner, from an end-user standpoint.

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

They need to improve on the reports after the execution of automation tests, since all the current organizations are looking for detailed graphical reports.

My previous company uses an application which will create a purchase order for their products, so my company wants to track all the purchase orders and the accounts that have been used for testing. We have set up data and automated tests in Tricentis Tosca. Using the Execution Folder (in Tosca) we are able to execute automated tests which gives detailed information for each run/execution. However, we were expecting a report for each execution like what scenario executed, what data was used (dummy customer accounts) and the resulting purchase order numbers.

Tricentis Tosca is able to export the execution results in Excel/PDF format but our company was expecting customized reports, so I mentioned this as room for improvement.

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

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.

For creating test scenarios, looking at defects, historical defects, and kind of putting in generative AI would add value. 

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix

Run time test execution status: They have improved on this a bit by introducing a progress bar. However, it can be further improved.

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

It is very expensive as compared to other tools that we have in the market. Its price is the main challenge because of which it is sometimes hard to sell Tosca because customers don't have that kind of budget.

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. It is good for Tosca because they can say, "Hey, your license count is overrun. So, you get more licenses or buy more licenses," but from a customer's point of view, this is really bad because they don't know exactly what usage is happening against each business unit because they can't group them. That's a big problem. So, for each group, they have to clear different license servers in different VMs. That's definitely a key area of improvement and a major challenge I have faced. They could also provide short-term licenses, such as three-month or four-month consumption licenses.

In terms of the overall architecture, we need to have something light weighted rather than so heavy. If we have something light-weighted, it would definitely be easily adaptable for any customer. In terms of containerization, it is very hard to properly containerize Tosca. They can think around the architecture and simplify things, but to be fair to them, the product has grown organically, and it has always grown based on feature requests. Everybody has jumped in and provided feedback to them to develop new features every now and then. They always have had a busy pipeline, which I understand, but it has been a long need from a customer point of view to have a simplified architecture. They need to simplify their architecture, which they seem to be doing.

Reporting has been the biggest challenge for a long time. There are quite a lot of third-party products, but there is no proper integration. Based on what I remember when I last spoke to them, they are working on a cloud platform, and they want to re-platform everything. I'm guessing they are addressing these issues in that platform.

I've tried Vision AI that they have created, but it isn't there yet. They have oversold it. It looks promising, and in the next few years, hopefully, it will become very good.

Their support can also be improved.

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LE
Bid Manager - Expert Continuous Testing at Sogeti UK

If Tosca wants to rule on the RPA world, they have to give some security guarantee.

The solution should work with the Linux platform. Right now, it only runs on Windows.

The solution could use different modules that would be useful to an organization. Examples of modules they could add include robotic process automation, analytics, and business intelligence among others.

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AshokKumar14 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at ITC Infotech

The tool lags in client-based applications. We have also encountered issues with the features in integrations. 

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

There are some things that we would need to do on an organizational level. We did not implement the process of our primary automated testing tool. The IT teams are still relying on the coding framework, which is either Ruby cucumber or Java cucumber, to complete a large portion of the automated testing.

We would have to delegate a large portion of that work to Tosca, which would rely heavily on training the existing automated testing team. Also, we would have to obtain a license for the product and ensure that all of them are operational.

While the initial setup was straightforward, we required assistance with the configuration to ensure that everything was done correctly.

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

One thing to improve in Tricentis Tosca is that it's not compatible with Excel based forms. Another area for improvement is that the tool is not compatible with OpenText applications. OpenText is a company which provides multiple applications.

There's also an issue with the support for Tricentis Tosca. If they don't provide support within a faster timeframe, then you will wait for the solution, and you'll lose, e.g. whatever you're gaining from the tool, you'll lose, because of the delayed support.

Tricentis Tosca also needs some improvement, and this is why my rating for it is only eight out of ten, e.g. it needs to have more compatibility to be able to take advantage of its multiple features.

The tool also supports on-premises deployment only, and it needs to elevate to cloud deployment. It should be easily accessible by anyone, and this is currently not the case. Other competitor tools, or most of the competitor tools, have moved to cloud, except Tricentis Tosca.

The licensing cost for the tool also needs improvement.

If these changes were to be made, then I could give Tricentis Tosca the perfect score: 10 out of 10.

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

A disadvantage of Tricentis Tosca is that you have to customize it according to your need, during the early stages of the software. Sometimes this happens when you're not on the system testing phase, but you're very close to development, e.g. more on the upstream testing, before system testing, unit testing, etc.

For example, you have to inject something as a precondition to the solution on the test, so you have to do some presetting, you have to write some code to it, and you have to make some conditions for upstream testing. Tricentis Tosca is not recommended in that stage, but it's definitely better for system testing, with it being keyword-driven and you have the keywords readily available, especially if you compare it with other tools such as Micro Focus and TestComplete.

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

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.

Pricing for Tricentis Tosca could be improved as well because it's very expensive.

Making Tricentis Tosca available on other operating systems is what I'd like to see in the next version of the tool. That would be beneficial. From what I've heard, you should never have the Tricentis Tosca server installed on a VM, but my company has it running on a VM and so far, there hasn't been any issue except for the VM rebooting, though I'm not sure at all if it had anything to do with having the server on the VM, or some other reasons.

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix

Even though the platform has been continuously evolving, there is room for improvement. For example:

  • Test reporting hasn't been as impressive as the other components of this platform.
  • Not being able to mask test data in relation to testing data management, in my opinion, is also a limitation.
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Vinayak Bandewar - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Architect at Cognizant

The inbuilt test datasheet that it has can be simplified and improved.

There are some performance challenges, specifically when we are not using it on a virtual machine, but when we are using it on a local machine.

In order to integrate test management tools, we have to buy another product call Tosca Connect. It would be better if this were included so that integration with tools like Jira or Azure DevOps was included out of the box.

One of the issues that we are facing is that the size of the repository continues increasing. They should provide tools to minimize or at least reduce the repository size.

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Terry Doherty - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at Avocado Consulting

Tricentis Tosca’s technical support could be improved.

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

The integration with mobile testing could be useful. Currently, they use this Perfecto Mobile as the mobile automation tool. If they could switch to others -such as BrowserStack or other tools - that would be helpful. I have used web UI, the desktop UI, and the API, as well as the mainframe. I haven't seen much from a mobile automation perspective as I haven't used it. I'm not aware if there is mobile automation. However, they really should have this if they don't already.

Scaling can be tedious.

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LV
Architecture Manger at a government with 201-500 employees

Tricentis Tosca could improve on the ease of use. There is a steep learning curve. The reporting section could be better and some of the new features could be simplified. Additionally, the user management of the client and the server are confusing. There should not be two.

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

The product needs to improve its pricing. It also needs to improve the infrastructure and DEX agent setup. 

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Nigel Powell - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead Engineer at Test Performance

There should be ease of data manipulation within automation test cases.

There should be better testing in the ETL, warehouse, or big data environment. They need to look at the speed of that and how they do that type of testing.

There should be better support. We should be able to speak to somebody.

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KC
Senior E2E Solution Engineer at Planet

I have found that some of the functions could be missed in the solution for new users. They are not obviously present.

The user interface test can have a high propensity to fail. These fails are because when doing changes there are shifts in the screen, that Tosca cannot see right away, I'm not sure if there's a solution to that problem, but I've noticed it. For example, when something on the screen moves, such as you add a button, it moves somewhere else, and then Tosca can't see it, then it breaks. It's fine, you go in and fix it, but I don't know if there's a solution to this problem.

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DS
IT Consultant with 10,001+ employees
  • Licensing/Pricing: Licensing needs to be packaged and not too granular at the component level.
  • Cloud or Service Offering: It's a licensed installation. I am not sure if it can be used in the mode of "product as a service" offering
  • Web Interface: To avoid client installations for certain features
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AnantJoshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director-Intelligent Automation at Truglobal

It was very difficult to get information about licensing costs. None of that information is readily available. For customers with a smaller budget, it would be helpful if Tricentis could offer options for smaller organizations to be able to use the tool. We've also found that customer support is lacking. 

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

The only thing I am not happy about is not so much the product, but it's that we don’t a good way to control licenses. Sometimes people are using licenses at their desk and when they go home, they still have the license. There is no good way to control this. When we have an issue that someone tries to log in and they can’t, it’s down to the fact that someone has walked away with 3 licenses and they aren’t using them.

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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

At the moment, none. In the latest version I don’t see much room for improvement.

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

I would like to see better integration with other testing tools. There is full integration with Selenium and having this with other tools would be good.

Integration with other programming languages would also be helpful.

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

Tricentis has vast and helpful documentation, including the Tosca manuals, along with a detailed description of each section that also contains various tips and techniques. Along with this documentation Tricentis has provided some videos, which are really helpful and help us understand the concept very quickly (and if we want to go into detail, then we can always refer to the detailed manual later).

It would be great if there are more video tutorials on the vendor's support website, at least for commonly used functionalities.

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MK
Senior Technical Automation Specialist at Sixsentix

The Junit result file gets overwritten each time the build is triggered from Jenkins or Bamboo. It would be nice to have the result XML files stored.

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

Our stability problems mentioned below notwithstanding, I am sure the new release will address everything that we need. We are going to convert to the new version and we have to address a problem with one of our apps first. We recently went through some training, our staff was excited about that and being able to see the new version was great.

The biggest roadblock for us in getting the newest version right now is accommodation of our application. The current version makes our lives easier, but we're still holding off on some testing until the accommodation issues has been resolved.

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

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. So they don't have a good reporting solution currently, and I hope they add one soon. 

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

The user management could improve in Tricentis Tosca because it is confusing. It would be better to have it in one place. Having to add it to the cloud and to a specific project can be a mess. 

In the future, they could improve overall mobile functionality.

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JH
Conductor with 11-50 employees

The document object model or some aspects of it has a bit of a learning curve.

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

Right now, I can't think of any areas where Tosca can improve because we are not yet that experienced with delivering services based on Tosca.

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

The volume for the BI testing is limited. If they could provide a few options to use it, using Tosca only, that could be a great thing because there are a lot of clients who do not actually want to go for the BI, but then they do have the database testing.

I know that Tosca provides the feature but it's very minuscule.

The UI does not have the option of automating the scroll bars. There are workarounds for that but for example, if I open two tabs that have the same page then it will give me another difficulty in scanning those options. 

In the next release, including this in Tricentis would be great.

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

When people start using this product, there is a learning curve. For people who were using another product, whether an open-source one like TestComplete or a commercial product, they are unable to use this solution immediately because it is much different. You need to spend much more time learning the tool and how to use it, compared to others.

When they developed the tool, they created their own rules and you need training for the people who will be using it.

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

Exploratory testing engine needs improved element recognition (at lease in JAVA Swing)

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

Dashboard for results still need to be improve in Tosca Test Suite

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it_user378198 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Lead at a tech services company

We haven’t really defined this yet. Some tools we are trying to use, like virtualization, haven't been used yet, but this is really something on our end. What we can’t do we have customizations available. We know there’s a feature in the next release which automates even more, and we are trying to find a stop time so we can upgrade and get that feature.

It may be different for other companies, but for us, establishing a set of procedures to get people trained was important. The tool is fairly easy to use, but it's important that you have consistency and standards in place when using it.

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VR
Enterprise Resources Planning Specialist at Doyensys

I am facing issues integrating the tool with the qTest server. It is the only problem I have been facing for a long time. I am not able to troubleshoot the issue. It is quite difficult to integrate the solution with other tools.

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

It would be of great help if they can fix the loading or performance issues. Sometimes, when I create the test case folder and test cases, it feels like it has loading or performance issues. When passing the objects, we can't sometimes find the exact element. We need to find out that exact location and just give the path for that, and then it works.

In the pipeline, when creating Jenkins, we create the list execution for passing the execution list to the commander. I feel it is a bit late, by a fraction of seconds. I first thought it could be my mistake or a setting issue, but I worked on that, and it's not a mistake or a setting issue.

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

Some areas have already been improved such as loops and conditions, but there is still one major issues. If you need to improve one of the Tosca engines, you have to develop it in the same language, such as C# and Java. So you need more technical experts to help you. QTP is more flexible on that point. Tosca must recognize more controls than it does currently.

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gagneet - PeerSpot reviewer
Continuous Delivery Lead at SAI Global

- Upgrades to the newer version if extra Add-ins are installed sometimes causes weird issues.

- Needs a UI to be open and present when running the tests. Cannot visit the DOM like in Selenium.

- Needs a UI to visualize the test case development.

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

The solution needs to improve its simulation of mobile environments. Right now, that aspect is really lacking.

The solution should work to try to lessen the cost of the solution. Right now, using it is costly for companies such as ours.

We'd like to see improvement in shared repositories. The problem with the shared repository is this: as it gets bigger, as we create more test cases, and due to this, we are experiencing issues.

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

Running the regression – if multiple lists are executed at once or if a list contains 200+ tests, it’s a pain to stop the execution.

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it_user292620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Manager at a tech consulting company

The Testmanagement option are still weak - improvement is outlined, but not yet visible. I expect first impressions of this solution at accelerate in Vienna, october 2017.

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it_user330945 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Business Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • Not all functions are logical without certain know-how.
  • Context menu in the newer versions is not ideal.
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it_user149559 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager with 501-1,000 employees

So far, all our issues have had to do with our unfamiliarity with the product.

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DK
Consultant im Testingbereich at qcentris

It should be more flexible when using the modules; it is kind of frozen there. They should be made more dynamic.

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it_user511317 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I personally feel like the pricing is a little bit on the high end.

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

Most of us have had the complaint that loop statements are missing, without which testing in reality was difficult, as many times Test scenarios needed to be run in iteration and version 8.4 has included this feature.

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UB
QA at proalpha business solutions gmbh

I would like to be able to manage different projects in one repository or have better data exchange between repositories.

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it_user390288 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Owner at Tricentis

Though the tool claims to be an enterprise solution, it lacks some enterprise features. I would like to see a central management capability for admins, where you define initial workspaces, parametrize settings or update all clients centrally. Furthermore, the tool needs a real versioning functionality.

The out-of-the-box support for third party ALM tools must be improved. Embedding it in an existing application landscape often goes along with developing an adapter for third party components. In terms of extending the product from a technical viewpoint, the documentation for APIs is rare and incomplete. It definitely needs more code examples and a platform for developers.

The tool always gives the user one specific view where you create your test cases. This works perfectly for GUI applications, but not always for non-GUI applications. For instance, when defining test cases for web services, you have exactly the same layout as creating a test case for a Java application. Technology specific characteristics are somehow mapped into the existing view, which increases the complexity. Furthermore, the abstraction at non-GUI tests is not given as in GUI tests. You really need to have the technical understanding of web services or XML to create test cases, this runs counter to the target audience.

The test case design functionality is really complex, and tends to be rocket science, so this needs to be simplified. It goes along with the reporting functionality, when you want to create your own layout and customize the report. I didn’t really get it to work.

It would be nice to distribute test cases to different machines for parallel execution. Especially when it comes to mobile test or multi-browser test where the test case keeps the same but the underlying technical base changes.

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it_user318897 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
  • They could improve scanning of the applications under test
  • Useful tips could be improved
  • Better and graeter number of examples in manuals
  • Reduced cost of licenses
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it_user317874 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

There's not much. The release cycles of the vendor are much faster than what companies can implement. Sometimes, out of the box functionalities are reduced to reduce the tools complexity, but then customers do miss some functionalities they had in the past.

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it_user294936 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Test automation – how you can record the module. It’s already easier to record than it was, but there is still room for improvement.

UI has gotten better but could still be improved.

There are some keyword shortcuts in test case design and in general that could be introduced. Sometimes everything is too big – it’s hard to describe.

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it_user519210 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would request that they develop some modules on the classic engine.

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

The ability to create more complex TestCases with "If" and "While" loops (now it provides IF, DO and WHILE statements, but they can't really be implemented the way we are used to use those loops).

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

Making it more stable would be good because we get around 90% stability. It would be great if it were more stable.

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MB
Release Test Manager at a tech company with 201-500 employees
it_user742722 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

At the time I was using the product, the reporting function was lacking in usability and detail. Detailed reporting was generally done outside of Tosca.

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

The Support TDD and BDD could be improved.

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it_user606489 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Automation Engineer at Infosys

Parallel execution is not yet implemented for Tosca. This means you can't execute the same test case on multiple machines remotely. For execution, test cases have to be present on that machine. Even while, a test case is executed you can't perform any other activity; you end up sitting idle during execution.

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

Upgrading from one version to another requires maintenance and rework in existing scripts. This is too much for my taste.

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it_user693258 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of QA at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Browser compatibility (probably solved in the newest versions).

Version 8 of Tosca had weak compatibility with automation via browsers. Firefox and IE produced issues, unexpected quits during execution of automation test, and during automated clicks at elements. Also, execution of tests was possible at one thread only (at the same time other instruments for automation, like Selenium, allow using multiple threads). But probably some of mentioned problems are not actual for up to date versions of Tosca.

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

Security, UI, and basic performance improvements could be done to the product to enhance its use.

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

I feel that the Tosca tool should be improved for handling Siebel applications. My team has tried the automation for a few different types of applications with Tosca. One of them was a Siebel application. We faced the most difficulties in the automation of that Siebel application. Tosca doesn't handle Siebel applications as well as it handles other platform applications. We had to try a lot of workarounds to complete the automation. That was one issue we faced when we worked with Tosca.

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it_user289665 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Tester at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The product, at times, does not recognize objects, especially in web applications. It would be good to have that fixed in the next version. As a work around, you have to use the feature called TBox which allows you to scan complex objects.

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it_user909723 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a logistics company with 5,001-10,000 employees
  • It needs better integration with JIRA.
  • I would like a better user interface.
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it_user694683 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
  • Objects re-scanning (recognizing the objects again)
  • Providing features to highlight the objects
  • The user guide/help document needs to be improved for better understanding of the tool and its features.
  • ScratchBook execution needs to be improved as Tosca crashes multiple times.
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JK
Senior Test Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Tricentis Tosca's performance could be better. Sometimes when we are remapping or when it is loading it can take a lot of time. There are free solutions that have better performance in this area.

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

The record and play is still a new feature and while SAP has been added to the latest version, it is still lacking usefulness for common repository setups.

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

I would like to see defect raising and tracking.

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

I would like to see the availability of more libraries

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it_user653235 - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Lead with 51-200 employees

They have to create some discussion forum, we cannot always rely on some expert to respond to the queries. Also, everything requires additional costs. They need to have better documentation, forums, and support.

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