Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.
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Tricentis Tosca
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Tricentis Tosca provides an approach to test
automation that is AI-powered, codeless, and end-to-end so it can test
everything in a complex IT landscape, to ensure business processes
work flawlessly no matter where changes occurs.
Its 160+ technology support helps users test everything at
the UI, API and data layer, including virtually any enterprise, custom,
homegrown and mobile application.
With its model-based approach, Tosca enables business,
QA and IT teams to…
Principal Consultant in Information Technology at System Soft Technologies (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Selenium
Customers are always spending less cost on tools and prefer open-source tools which leverage all applications Can be tailored your framework in selenium according to application Moreover CI/CD pipeline is easy in selenium compared to other tools Can be built custom test …
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Verified User
Chose Selenium
Selenium is way better than those two as it's free and has great community support.
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Verified User
Chose Selenium
UFT is a paid tool from microfocus and able to automated alomsts all platforms but there is Fee for licensed versions software. TOSCA is also a paid tool from Tricentis which does not require coding skills from tester and implements mode based automation. where as selenium is …
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Test Analyst in Information Technology at ITC Infotech (Information Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Even though Selenium is open source tool we have lot restriction in Selenium. Using Selenium we can automate only web based application. If we need to automate other application we work with other tools. Maintenance of Selenium code is complex when compare to Tricentis Tosca. …
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Global Delivery Head in Information Technology at Vaisesika Consulting (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Micro Focus UFT requires coding skills. Worksoft supports SAP very well but web app automation was challenging. Provar is only for Salesforce automation. Selenium required an automation engineer with Java knowledge and framework dependency. Tricentis Tosca did not require any …
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Verified User
Chose Tricentis Tosca
I have really minimum exposure with QTP and ALM, barely 2 months or so, for this reason I would not like to comment on how Tosca stacks up against them, but something that I really like about Selenium is that it is really simple and easy to setup, doesn't require a heavy …
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Senior Technical Manager SA in Information Technology at HKJC (Gambling & Casinos, 1001-5000 employees)
Chose Tricentis Tosca
UFT was mostly record and replay and Tricentis Tosca best fit our purpose as it was easier to create modules and make quick changes when needed. Overall easier and quicker to make changes to our existing test cases. therefore we haven't used UFT anymore.
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Test Automation Expert in Quality Assurance at Swiss Re (Insurance, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Tricentis Tosca
As Tricentis Tosca is one of the first tools to implement the model based test automation, it is way ahead of the similar kind of tools. be it creating and innovating new strategies to overcome the existing hurdles faced during automation like, self healing feature is quite …
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Verified User
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Good on flexibility and provided much option to cover different aspects of automation testing.
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Software Engineer in Quality Assurance at Infostretch Corporation (Information Services, 501-1000 employees)
Chose Tricentis Tosca
As our product required wide rage of testing start from web testing to desktop automation also, we gone through the feature provided by Tosca and decided it will be good fit for end to end automation. Even though from our team no one is aware of how to use the tools, the guide …
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Verified User
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Tricentis Tosca provides a uniform interface for al testers and avoids the requirement for coding. Tricentis Tosca also offers test capabilities across the enterprise that other tools do not.
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Verified User
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Mostly the ease of use from day one by introducing the no-code approach for teams with non-technical contributors. Also, the amount of technologies it covers is greater than other tools that are specialized in web-only or API, for example.
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Verified User
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Because of it's great support for cross browser/cross device and devops, this really makes the cut against it's peers.
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Developer in Information Technology at SAP (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Chose Tricentis Tosca
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Selenium and Tricentis Tosca are competing test automation solutions. Selenium is open source, and the most popular script-based test automation tool in the world; users work in Selenium IDE, which supports its own scripting language, Selenese. Tricentis Tosca is available at cost but provides a scriptless, no-code, model-based approach to test automation. Selenium and Tricentis Tosca present similar automation features, but they can be used together in a test suite by test management tools such as Tricentis qTest.
Selenium and Tosca are both used predominantly in enterprises, however Selenium is often deployed at mid-size companies as well. Given that it is open source, Selenium can be learned by anyone willing to take the time.
Features
There are many reasons to deploy Tosca or Selenium (or both) in agile test suites.
Beyond simply being open source, Selenium can support tests written in a variety of programming languages including Java, Ruby, Ruby, C#, PHP, etc., as well as its own Selense language, making it accessible to devs. It supports testing a variety of web UI components, and supports cross-browser testing. Despite being scripted, Selenium is relatively easy to use, and also supports parallel testing.
The primary reason for using Tosca is its major selling point: it is scriptless, or no-code. As easy as Selenium might be, it still requires scripting. Users enjoy how easy Tosca makes it to design tests, and how easy it is to integrate Tosca into a CI / CD pipeline. Also, Tosca can be used to test web, cloud, and desktop applications.Tosca can automate API testing, and offers integrations with Postman and SoapUI. Selenium cannot be used to automate API testing.
Limitations
A few reasons exist to consider looking elsewhere for a test automation tool.
Selenium cannot be used to automate testing of desktop applications, only web applications through browser automations. Because it is scripted, it is accessible only to programmers, and because it is open source it lacks enterprise support of any kind. It may be easy to use for what it is, but learning to use it is a barrier for many. Selenium also lacks powerful internal reporting features.
Tosca’s downsides are few, but first among them is the cost, particularly when open source and free alternatives exist. Also, because it is scriptless, Tosca has the opposite problem Selenium has: competent programmers are sometimes frustrated by it, citing a lack of flexibility and control for complex test automations. There is also a learning curve to arrive at fully understanding the UI.
Pricing
Selenium is open source and free to use. Tricentis Tosca pricing is not published. Tricentis offers cloud licensing which provides a testing environment hosted by Tricentis, and on-premise licensing. Tricentis suggests cloud licensing can reduce costs because it allows the user’s partners in testing to use testing infrastructure without having to provision additional server resources. Tricentis also provides checkout licenses (i.e. temporary use licenses for a pool of potential users held for specific use cases), or custom licensing for special and limited scenarios.
Features
Selenium
Tricentis Tosca
Automation Testing
Comparison of Automation Testing features of Selenium and Tricentis Tosca
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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For projects having huge set of test cases to be automated can be accommodated by Tricentis Tosca with proper folder structure and best practices implementations. Tosca will be less appropriate for organizations where the number of automation scripts are limited with hardly any scope of increasing the script count or the cost of automation will be more than the cost of having manual resources as Tosca is a licensed tool.
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Selenium is pretty user-friendly but sometimes tests tend to flake out. I'd say roughly one out of twenty tests yields a false positive.
Selenium software cannot read images. This is a minor negative because a free plug-in is available from alternate sources.
Slowness may be a minor factor with Selenium, though this is an issue with basically any testing software since waiting on a site to execute JavaScript requires the browser to wait for a particular action.
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Documentation - struggled multiple times with features not explained very well, or not explained at all
The only support is on Tricentis Forums, where, sometimes, based on 'luck' - you will open a support case, and wait few days until you get the chance to speak with someone from Tricentis and show case your issue
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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 aim to renew Tosca for our organization. What we lose in license cost is gained by having employee that do not need programming background. We also recoup a lot of the cost on the rapidity of automation. Only the support we might not use as much. I believe Tosca is here to stay at our organization
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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.
It can be a challenge for new users who have never used an automation tool. For example, it is hard to understand the layout of the screen and where to find how to update the data. The interface can be overwhelming at first.
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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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Tricentis team was very supportive. Support is expensive but they helped us at many level. Setting up timeline, implementation, precise questions on automation challenges. We had an account manager and technical people we could as to talk to. Support was generally timely and helping. They often proposed to come on site to help us which would cost more but could be helpful
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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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Tricentis Tosca is codeless and therefore easier to use. It's a great tool for people that would start doing automation and have no coding background. It seems like it has the same capabilities as other test automation suites but I felt it lacked a bit of capabilities on the test management suite such as defects test suites organizations etc
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It really had a very good impact on our ROI. We were able to automate most of the apps and layers with in it and get a very short execution time which led to increased releases with in short span of time.
Time to market really improved and efficiency of developing scripts was not too bad.
With built in test dashboards, it was easy to pull metrics and share the insights with management.
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