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Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."The feature that I have found the most valuable is the recovery and cleanup process. Suppose there is a list of test cases and one test case has failed, it should not impact the other test cases. We can reuse the same test case. We can change the configuration of parameters and then use the test cases on the same thing. So, that's a useful thing. Otherwise, we have to use the cleanup process. Another useful feature is to have our own library files. We can create our objects in the libraries and reuse them. There is no need to create duplicate data for that. They have been giving some enhancements recently which means integration is also there. They've integrated with different software like Jenkins, Bamboo. So, we can also create pipeline points. They have recently given SAP and everything, which is very useful."
"With one click, it will scan all the elements on the screen, so that the user can select the required elements for automation tests."
"The Model-Based Test Automation is the most valuable feature, where you can create reusable components. Even though we are using a scriptless automation tool, there still needs to be an understanding of how to create reusable components and how to keep refactoring and how to keep regression, the test scripts, at an okay level. We are coupling Tosca with some other risk-based testing tools, as well, but automation is primarily what we're using Tosca for, the scriptless, model-based technology which is driving automation for us."
"The most valuable feature of Tricentis Tosca is it is a completely scriptless automation tool, which I liked a lot. They keep on continuously improving their tools, wherever we are facing any challenges they are able to provide a solution for it. It is easy to learn, everyone can easily read and understand what is happening with the scripts. Any business user or function tester can use the tool efficiently. This is a complete solution package."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Tosca Commander."
"The product enables codeless automation."
"We have multiple applications, and it supports parallel execution. It has mobile automation."
"Tricentis Tosca is well integrated with other products like Jira."
"It significantly reduces development and test costs, and ensures that there is synergy between the platforms on product features and user experience."
"You can just write one XM channel core and it'll be used for both iOS and Android."
"Xamarin makes it easy to create white label applications for all platforms."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"It allows us to reuse our knowledge of C# and .NET Framework."
"Plugins like MvvmCross make a developer’s life easy."
"It brings about good code sharing strategies, which bring down cost and maintenance efforts."
"For me, developing apps for iOS and Android is a dream came true, without migrating to Objective-C or Java. Xamarin enables me to do so."
"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."
"Security, UI, and basic performance improvements could be done to the product to enhance its use."
"I think the downside would be licensing costs which are very high."
"Making it more stable would be good because we get around 90% stability."
"The Test Management options are still weak - improvement is outlined, but not yet visible. I"
"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."
"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. The support and licensing cost for it also need improvement. The tool also needs cloud support, as it's currently on-premises only."
"Many times when we have raised a ticket, we did not get an urgent response."
"We'd like to have some chat support functionality."
"I feel that the Android AppCompat library creates a lot of issues. A lot of development time is often wasted solving these issues."
"The performance needs improvement, especially the dev tools, and also the ultimate output of the mobile applications."
"There are compatibility issues between versions of various Xamarin components."
"Xamarin Platform's performance base could be improved."
"The Xamarin.Forms could improve."
"From time to time, it is a bit harder to code some specific scenarios compared to the native approach."
"It is common to find a problem that you would need to develop from the start since there are no third-party components to reuse."
Tricentis Tosca is ranked 1st in Regression Testing Tools with 98 reviews while Xamarin Platform is ranked 4th in Mobile Development Platforms with 39 reviews. Tricentis Tosca is rated 8.2, while Xamarin Platform is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Tricentis Tosca writes "Does not require coding experience to use and comes with productivity and time-saving features ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Xamarin Platform writes "It's about to be retired and replaced with an inferior product, but offers excellent cross-platform development capabilities". Tricentis Tosca is most compared with Katalon Studio, OpenText UFT One, Worksoft Certify, Postman and Testim, whereas Xamarin Platform is most compared with Ionic, Appium, OutSystems and Apple Xcode.
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