Selenium vs. Tricentis Testim Salesforce

When you have to test the UI and how it behaves when certain actions are performed, you need something that can automate the browsers. This is where Selenium comes to the rescue. If you have to test APIs and not the frontend (UI), I would recommend going with other libraries that support HTTP Requests. Selenium is good only when you have no choice but to run the steps on a browser.

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My organization heavily customizes Salesforce to align it with specific business processes, adding custom fields, workflows, and triggers. With each Salesforce release or customization update, we need to ensure that existing functionalities and customizations remain intact.Tricentis Test Automation for Salesforce excels in this scenario. Its ability to create and execute comprehensive regression test suites efficiently ensures that customizations don't introduce unexpected issues or regressions. We can automate the validation of custom workflows, triggers, and data integrity, saving time and reducing the risk of errors.

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• For any web based UI automation, Selenium is the best tool out there to automate your tests.
• It supports multiple coding languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C# etc.. to choose from.
• There is a huge community of users and can get many answers on StackOverFlow.
• It has lot of other plugins to make your tests even more efficient.

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• By automating testing processes we have reduce the time and human resources required for testing and enable us for cost savings.
• Seamlessly integrates with Salesforce enviornment.
• Adapts to projects of varying sizes and complexities to scaleup.

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• Recognize Adobe Flash and MS Silver Light elements without additional help
• Detect and locate Java applets ingredients
• Having the "Wait-till-Displayed" or "Wait-till-Present" as a built in Web Driver function instead of requirement for writing loops and defining expliccit wait, visiblewait, invisiblewait, etc.

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• Streamlined Test Data Management:
• Challenges: Managing test data in Salesforce, especially when dealing with complex data models and large datasets, can be challenging. While Tricentis supports data-driven testing, it can be more intuitive in terms of data generation, manipulation, and maintenance.
• Room for Improvement: Tricentis could benefit from improved test data management features, including the ability to easily create, import, and export test data. Additionally, the tool could offer more built-in data generation options, data masking capabilities, and better integration with external data sources to simplify the test data setup process.
• Scriptless Testing for Complex Scenarios:
• Challenges: While Tricentis offers a user-friendly interface for test case creation, some complex Salesforce scenarios may still require scripting knowledge. This can be a hurdle for business users or testers with limited scripting expertise.
• Room for Improvement: Tricentis could enhance its scriptless testing capabilities by providing more advanced, yet user-friendly, features for handling complex scenarios. For example, improving the visual test design interface to accommodate intricate conditional logic, dynamic data handling, and complex user interactions without requiring scripting would make the tool more accessible to a broader range of users.

Incentivized

We love this product mainly because of its high customization abilities and the ease of use. Moreover, its free and can be learned easily through online communities and videos. The tests are more consistent and reliable as compared to Manual tests. It has enabled us to test a large number of features all in one go, which would have impossible through manual tests. The reports generated at the end of the tests are really helpful for the QA and the development teams to get a fair view of the application.

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We will renew but hope they improve their mobile experience.

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As I mentioned earlier, the reason I use Selenium is because there is a fairly widespread community of users, and user support services are at a good level. because the application is open source, it works on many platforms (Windows, Linux, IOS) without any problems. In addition, it gives us a lot of options for writing functional tests. For errors that we receive through the application, we can easily find the reasons for errors in the forums.

Very good tool, first of this kind so no element to compare but still very good tool. It allows us to gain a lot of time and to be very deep in the testing phases

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Selenium does not have technical support available easily. You have to go through forums to get the information you need. However, there are excellent forums out there that make it easy to troubleshoot. The open-source flexibility makes it difficult to have dedicated support.

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We did everything we needed to use it. Now we can execute our tests on different operational systems and browsers running few tests simultaneously. We also implemented Appium framework to execute our tests on mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets. We use SauceLabs for our test execution and Jenkins for continuous integration.

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At the time of adoption, there were not many other alternatives that were even close to being competitive when it comes to browser testing. As far as I know now to this day, there is still little competition to Selenium for what it does. Any other browser-based testing still utilises Selenium to interact with the browser.

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We selected Tricentis Test Automation due to it's ease of use. It was the pricier option out of the competitve pool, however, it was important for us to have a scalable solution that integrated with all of our technologies and platforms. It was the most user-friendly tool and took the least amount of time to onboard individuals.

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• Generation of detailed finding reports helped in cost savings in regard to direct labor.
• Quality Assurance technicians found value in repeating mundane duties that they perform daily. It saved mental energy due to the automation process.
• The value was established in high volume usage in setting up meetings as well as new accounts with A/B testing. Also merely cleaning up old test documents by evaluating them and organization or deletion.

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• Improved productivity of QA team a lot
• Efficiency of test automation scripts gone up
• Automating test cases is so easy and reduced lot of efforts