Selenium vs. Tricentis Tosca

Selenium

Selenium

286 Reviews and Ratings

Tricentis Tosca

Tricentis Tosca

64 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Selenium	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.	N/A
Tricentis Tosca	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	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…	N/A

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	Selenium	Tricentis Tosca
Considered Both Products	Selenium Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium When we compared Selenium to Saucelabs, [we found that] both have their own set of advantages but [preferred] Selenium [in the end]. [With] Selenium we have a uniform setup in place to test both the framework and grid which makes it preferable over Saucelabs. [The] test … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium I did not have used any other yet. Incentivized Helpful? Veeraiah Motukuri Principal Consultant 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Mauro Giannandrea DevOps Specialist Chose Selenium The main Selenium usage is in the security field. Selenium drives the web application and let ZAP test some piece of software and UI in order to find security issues. Is Jenkins in charge to run it and manage reports? For the reporting, we tried many solutions, including … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium Open sourced and free: Multiple language support: The community: Wide plugin support: Easy installation and intuitive usage: Cross-browser support: Remote testing: Multiple testing and parallel testing execution: Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium Selenium is way better than those two as it's free and has great community support. Incentivized Helpful? Sharmin Promi Lead QA Automation Engineer Chose Selenium ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, & ServiceV Pro), TestComplete, Micro Focus UFT One (formerly HP UFT), Apache JMeter and Selenium Incentivized Helpful? zahit bogus Business Intelligence & Database Consultant Chose Selenium The main reason I prefer Selenium is because it has a fairly common user community and because it 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Chetan Munegowda Software Engineer Chose Selenium Selenium performs better. Incentivized Helpful? PM Pradeep Moganti Sr Application Developer Chose Selenium Since it is an open-source testing tool, there is no licensing cost involved. Selenium is a cross-platform tool that supports cross-browser testing. To manage and report test cases Selenium can be easily integrated with frameworks like JUnit, TestNG. Incentivized Helpful? Rajesh Kumar Founder Chose Selenium I have used Winium, Sikuli, and Auto IT to do the automation with windows-based applications. Mostly, I will use Selenium only. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium We have looked at other options, but none are open source like Selenium and easily plug able into different web applications. Selenium does not cost anything, and although you don't get support for it, there are many technical forums our there that provide troubleshooting if … Incentivized Helpful? Binoy Shah Software Integration Tester Chose Selenium The first obvious thing is Selenium, an open-source tool, and it has a wide-open community for support. Well, on the other hand, Silk Test is a paid tool. With the combination of different tools in the market, we can build a solution for Web and Mobile based automation using … Incentivized Helpful? TW Tharanga Wickramsinghe Software Engineer Chose Selenium I think Selenium is great for web app testing and has great features. Also, it is free. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? TT Trung Truong Automation Engineer Chose Selenium TestComplete is more like an enterprise automation testing tool, that consists of many built-in functions. The license is rather expensive https://smartbear.com/product/testcomplete/pricing/. TestComplete's user community is not as large as Selenium user. Smartbear's … Incentivized Helpful? Sanyam Jain Automation Developer Chose Selenium We use both the products in our work. Mostly we avoid Selenium because we have replaced that half of the work with RPA, which works faster than Selenium and with less brainstorming. Some of our work can only be done with Selenium, while some of our work can work faster with RPA. Incentivized Helpful? Lakshmi Achary Sr. QA Engineer Chose Selenium Our marketing automation application is built on AngularJS and have a lot of JavaScript specialization inside our company use Protractor. Incentivized Helpful? Ilya Popovich QA Test Lead Chose Selenium All alternatives are not listed here (like QTP), but Selenium beats all of them because it's free, there are tons of guides and tutorials on the internet, and there are lots of extra libraries that use Selenium. Incentivized Helpful? OS Om Prakash Sheshappa IT Manager Chose Selenium Screenster, Watir and Appium Incentivized Helpful? Siddharth Walia Test Engineer Chose Selenium We were considering HP QTP against Selenium. but we chose Selenium because of the following reasons: 1. Selenium is more widely used and has more online support community Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Selenium Ghost Inspector, a cloud-based automated web app testing tool, used for recording and playback, a lot like Selenium IDE. Ghost Inspector provides Google Chrome and Firefox plugins to record browser actions and allows users to save the tests on their cloud platform. It allows … Incentivized Helpful? Sachin Kalakeri Master Thesis Chose Selenium Open source. Ease of use. Additional features. Incentivized Helpful? Janice Cruz (L.I.O.N.) Quality Assurance Analyst Chose Selenium We don’t have any alternatives as this product meets our demands. Incentivized Helpful?	Tricentis Tosca Mouleeswaran Andi E Test Analyst 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. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca Tricentis Tosca is better as the first testing tool to introduce in a news organization. I believe it's the testing tool that is the easiest to introduce and adopt. It is oriented toward manual testers that would like to start automation but it is less oriented toward … Incentivized Helpful? Sushmita Patil Senior Business Analyst Chose Tricentis Tosca Depending on the prices concern and fast execution Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca User friendly interface is key to any tool usage. If the features supported by tool is enormous but the interface is not easy to use, then the product will not reach its optimal usage. Tosca scores high numbers with this regard. The documentations and KB articles it supports … Incentivized Helpful? juan eng paw Senior Technical Manager SA 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca Tricentis Tosca has higher stability than Certica Solutions Incentivized Helpful? Yogendra Singh Test Automation Expert 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 … Incentivized Helpful? AB Atanu Biswas Automation and Performance Test Lead Chose Tricentis Tosca Selenium, Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence and ACCELQ Incentivized Helpful? Anant Joshi Sr. Director Chose Tricentis Tosca The overall user experience and the ease of use while automation ERP system was better in Tricentis Tosca. The integration was seamless especially for SAP and SFDC system. I think the maintenance efforts required in Tricentis Tosca is very less as compared to Katalon. The … Incentivized Helpful? Sneha Gangan Manore Senior Analyst Chose Tricentis Tosca This tool covers all from functional testing to rpa and mobile testing cloud based testing visual testing and accessibility testing is easily possible. It is easy to implement start work in less time. All the testing kinds performance can also be tested and customized reports … Incentivized Helpful? Ganesh Muralidharan Global Delivery Head 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca Good on flexibility and provided much option to cover different aspects of automation testing. Incentivized Helpful? BW Bernd Weigl Teamleiter Quality Assurance Chose Tricentis Tosca Best Module and Scan approach, Libs rule, and PL Libs are the best things ever! Incentivized Helpful? Nikhil Puniyani Software Engineer 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Vinayak Bandewar Test Architect Chose Tricentis Tosca Other tools are focused on limited applications or technologies. With Tricentis Tosca you can do almost everything which makes it one-stop solution for all needs.Tosca is codeless vs others which requires coding. Tosca has inbuilt repository which other tools lack. Tosca also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca Tricentis Tosca has more functionality and is easier to implement. It also has more compatibility with other applications, and the support is much more responsive. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca Tricentis Tosca is an easy to use tool which can apply to almost any business process. The customer support program appears to be a program which will put the use of the tool on track with our protfolios. Ease of implementation and total application capabilities across … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Raghuram Rangamani Associate Project Manager Chose Tricentis Tosca Before going in for TOSCA we tried to use Selenium / UFT. But TOSCA stacked much ahead than other tools. Incentivized Helpful? DL david leo Developer Chose Tricentis Tosca Its easy to use and reliable Its easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and reliable Its easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and reliableIts easy to use and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Tricentis Tosca qTest is the "brain" of the suite. You can use just Tricentis Tosca and can be enough to have results, but if you want have the management of executions, results and even manual test, this is your app. Incentivized Helpful?

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	Selenium	Tricentis Tosca
Highlights	Research Team Insight Published October 23, 2020 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.

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Automation Testing

Comparison of Automation Testing features of Product A and Product B
	Selenium - Ratings	Tricentis Tosca 8.3 Ratings 2% below category average
Record and Automate	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Multi-Browser Testing	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Mobile Testing	00 Ratings	7.40 Ratings
Test Scheduling	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Test Management	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
CI/CD Tool Integration	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Parallel Testing	00 Ratings	8.70 Ratings
Object Recognition	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Data-Driven Testing	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings
Real Device Testing	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Testing Reports & Analytics	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Selenium	Tricentis Tosca
Likelihood to Recommend	9.2 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.2 (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (0 ratings)	3.6 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.3 (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Selenium	Tricentis Tosca
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tricentis Tosca is well suited for packaged applications like SAP, Salesforce, Workday, etc. It also works well with API testing and Web UI testing. Tosca is highly suited for Projects which require a high level of collaboration between team members across different locations. It's less suited for mobile automation, Reporting, and test scenarios with high input data. Incentivized Vinayak Bandewar Test Architect Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Tosca provides a one-stop solution for your test-automation needs. One can use it to automate testing of desktop (web/stand-alone) applications, Mobile(Native as well as Web) applications etc. It is a great tool since it not only helps in test automation but also in maintaining a suite for Manual testing. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Payam Pirooznia Senior Automation Test Engineer Read full review	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 Incentivized AI Alexandru Cristian Ion QA Engineer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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. Incentivized Siddharth Walia Test Engineer Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	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. zahit bogus Business Intelligence & Database Consultant Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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Online Training	No answers on this topic	okIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is betterIt would be better if the support is better Incentivized david leo Developer Read full review
Implementation Rating	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. Incentivized Dmitry Shyshkin Lead QA Automation Engineer‏ Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	User friendly interface is key to any tool usage. If the features supported by tool is enormous but the interface is not easy to use, then the product will not reach its optimal usage. Tosca scores high numbers with this regard. The documentations and KB articles it supports are very helpful and allows us to solve our issues independently. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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