We use Tricentis Testim daily to automate our regression test cases. Testim has been great at working between several browser based applications, and allowing integration testing. There are also many useful pre-built tools to help with MFA, emails, scripting and scheduling. Testim can be used to automate actions in both company controlled applications, and third party applications where you do not have any control over changes or tags.
Pros
Customer Service/Help with automation
Temporary email service
SalesForce MFA signon
Variable Extraction and use
Custom Scripting
Cons
Could be some more controls around Test step pass fail within a test
Could be better visibility into cases opened with Tricentis
Could be better documentation around where/when and what JS is available to be used in tests
Likelihood to Recommend
Testim has been great at automating Frontend and integration regression testing. I do not think it would work wellTricentis Testimfor backend code testing, if it could not be done through UI. The record function is very good, and makes automating test cases much faster and more accurate. We have had great success using Testim to verify SalesForce environments, NetSuite environments, and our own JumpCloud application as well.
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Verified User
Engineer in Quality Assurance (Computer Software company, 501-1000 employees)
Accelerated Testing Processes: Tricentis Testim helps businesses accelerate their testing processes by automating test case creation, execution, and maintenance. This results in faster releases and shorter time-to-market.
Reduced Testing Costs: By automating repetitive testing tasks, businesses can significantly reduce the costs associated with manual testing, including labor costs and the time required for testing cycles.
Increased Test Coverage: Testim's AI capabilities enable organizations to achieve broader test coverage by identifying relevant test scenarios, including edge cases, and automating them efficiently.
Enhanced Test Stability: The platform's AI-driven self-healing capabilities automatically adapt tests to changes in the application's UI, improving the stability and reliability of automated tests.
Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform Testing: Tricentis Testim allows businesses to perform cross-browser and cross-platform testing, ensuring that applications work seamlessly across various browsers and devices.
Pros
It provides a codeless testing environment, allowing non-technical users such as business analysts and testers to create and maintain automated tests without writing code. This democratizes test automation and accelerates test creation.
The platform leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyze user interactions with the application and automatically generate test scripts. This significantly reduces the time and effort required to create test cases.
Its AI capabilities enable tests to adapt to changes in the application's user interface (UI) automatically. If UI elements change, the platform can identify and update the tests accordingly, reducing maintenance overhead.
Cons
Providing more comprehensive reporting and analytics capabilities, including customizable dashboards and insights into test execution results, could help users gain deeper insights into their test coverage and quality.
Expanding integration capabilities with a wider range of external systems, tools, and test management platforms could increase flexibility and interoperability within the testing ecosystem.
Enhancements in organizing and managing test scenarios and test suites could improve the user experience. Features such as better folder structures, tags, and hierarchical organization could make it easier to manage large test suites.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well Suited for: Web Application Testing: It excels in automating tests for web applications, including e-commerce websites, CRM systems, and internal web-based tools. Its codeless approach and AI-driven test creation make it suitable for testing various web applications. Regression Testing: It is well-suited for regression testing, where existing test cases need to be executed repeatedly to ensure that new code changes do not introduce defects. Testim's self-healing capabilities help maintain test stability when the application's UI changes frequently. Cross-Browser Testing: Tricentis Testim is an excellent choice for cross-browser testing. It allows organizations to create tests that can be executed across different web browsers, ensuring consistent functionality and user experience.
Not suited for: Complex Desktop Applications: Tricentis Testim is primarily designed for web application testing. It may be less appropriate for automating tests of complex desktop applications or applications that do not have a web-based UI. Highly Technical Testing Needs: Organizations with highly technical testing requirements, such as complex API testing or intricate database testing, may find Testim's codeless approach limiting. Specialized testing tools may be more appropriate.
We are using Testim in the R&D department. It is being used by our QA and by our Developers. It helps us, as a small company, to run many different kinds of tests (smoke tests, regression tests, user tests) on our different features with just one QA person. This way we can make sure we do not have bugs in many of the new features within a few minutes instead of hours of manual tests. The advantages of Testim are that our QA does not need to know code in order to write the automation tests, and for complex tests we can use the help of our developers, just one time and the QA can use it in all the tests.
Pros
Very intuitive and easy UX/UI
Great support team for any question
Ability to create automated tests from zero without knowing code
Cons
Missing the ability to 'undo' an action on test steps
Easy way to test different browsers
Easy way to test different phones for mobile-web
Likelihood to Recommend
Testim is suited to companies that want automation tests on user testing without having to convert their QA team to the automation team. Testim is also suited to companies without a QA, where they want automation tests easily written by other team members, either project managers or developers. Testim is not suited to companies with automation teams in place.
