Tricentis Tosca is a powerful test automation tool that helps teams deliver faster and with higher quality. Whether you're just getting started or looking to simplify your workflow, here are five easy-to-understand tips to make your Tosca experience more efficient and manageable.
1. Organize Test Cases Smartly
Break down your test cases into distinct segments and make heavy use of reusable TestSteps. Precondition, Process, Verification and Postcondition. Having all initial buffers set and gathered in a precondition segment makes analysis much easier than searching a module across the TestCase. Likewise having the Cleanup to the test or a segment in one place helps analyzing a test without interrupting yourself by closing windows. Keep subfolders small, focused, and clearly named. Structure your test cases in logical folders and use clear naming conventions.
2. Use Teststep Libraries
Ideally use reusable Library Steps with business parameters wherever you can. Not only does this drive down maintenance effort when there are changes in a subprocess, creating Tests from library blocks helps you achieve a Modular design that improves TestCase creation and understanding. This helps you and your team quickly find, understand, and report on tests—especially in large projects. A well-organized test repository also improves traceability and makes it easier to onboard new team members.
3. Leverage Low-Code and AI Features
Tosca is designed with non-technical users in mind but offers additional capabilities for technical users. While scanning modules to create TestCases via drag&drop is a good start to create tests, learning about the use of Regex in module identifiers, the inbuilt Self-Healing capabilities and VisionAI is a small investment to solve the most common issues in TestCase creation. Regex helps you to find a control again that has a unique label but a changing ID. Self-Healing can help repairing your TestCase after changes in the system under test, while VisionAI has the capability to recognize logical, usable modules where the technical architecture of a system is less than ideal.
4. Manage Test Data Effectively
Use Tosca’s built-in test data management options to handle different. TestCase Design in combination with templates allow for a much faster creation of different variations of a TestCase. Just create a singular template for the general path and keep all the data for the tests in an easy-to-read table. Plus you can use the same table to control whether a test should cover specific sub-paths or not. This way you can separate the business logic from the technical modules and make it easier to consult non-users regarding additional tests.
5. Test Early and Often – with Verifications
A test without verification doesn’t convey a lot of information. Setting distinct verifications helps you understand what the process is about. Additionally, Verifications and WaitOn steps can be used to improve the flow of the test. Waiting for controls to be steerable, a process bar to be done or using a loop to refresh a module until data has been processed helps you to let your test run fluent without the need to add static wait times. Test the flow of segments in your Scratchbook until you are sure they will run without interruptions for the documented execution.
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