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Selenium vs. Tricentis Tosca

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Selenium
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Selenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.N/A
Tricentis Tosca
Score 8.8 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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Editions & Modules
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Community Pulse
SeleniumTricentis Tosca
Considered Both Products
Selenium
Veeraiah Motukuri | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Verified User
Professional
Chose Selenium
Selenium is way better than those two as it's free and has great community support.
Verified User
Consultant
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 …
Tricentis Tosca
Verified User
Employee
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 …
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. …
Ganesh Muralidharan | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
david leo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
juan eng paw | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
Yogendra Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
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Bernd Weigl
Teamleiter Quality Assurance
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Best Module and Scan approach, Libs rule, and PL Libs are the best things ever!
Verified User
Employee
Chose Tricentis Tosca
Good on flexibility and provided much option to cover different aspects of automation testing.
Nikhil Puniyani | TrustRadius Reviewer
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 …
Verified User
Director
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.
Verified User
Team Lead
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.
Verified User
Professional
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.
Raghuram Rangamani | TrustRadius Reviewer
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.
TrustRadius Insights
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Highlights

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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
SeleniumTricentis Tosca
Automation Testing
Comparison of Automation Testing features of Product A and Product B
Selenium
10.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Tricentis Tosca
8.0
17 Ratings
6% below category average
Record and Automate10.01 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Multi-Browser Testing10.01 Ratings8.417 Ratings
Test Management10.01 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Integrated Version Control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Object Recognition10.01 Ratings7.916 Ratings
Data-Driven Testing10.01 Ratings8.216 Ratings
Testing Reports & Analytics10.01 Ratings8.117 Ratings
Mobile Testing00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
Test Scheduling00 Ratings7.817 Ratings
CI/CD Tool Integration00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
Parallel Testing00 Ratings8.215 Ratings
Real Device Testing00 Ratings8.112 Ratings
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User Ratings
SeleniumTricentis Tosca
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(55 ratings)
9.7
(32 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.2
(6 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.8
(6 ratings)
8.7
(26 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.3
(11 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SeleniumTricentis Tosca
Likelihood to Recommend
Open Source
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Tricentis
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
Open Source
  • 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.
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Tricentis
  • Codeless - Easy to learn, Users can be trained quickly.
  • Modular approach - Reusable test step blocks can be created and used across multiple test cases.
  • Multiuser repository - Seamless collaboration between multiple team members in real-time.
  • Supports high number of technologies.
Vinayak Bandewar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Vinayak Bandewar
Test Architect
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Cons
Open Source
  • 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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Tricentis
  • 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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Likelihood to Renew
Open Source
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.
Siddharth Walia | TrustRadius Reviewer
Siddharth Walia
Test Engineer
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Tricentis
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
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
Open Source
For those who are unfamiliar with coding, there is a bit of a learning curve. There is plenty of helpful documentation and resources but it can take a little time to get the software up and running. Once you get the hang of how Selenium works, and what it can do, you realize how many things you can use it for, and how many processes you can automate.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Tricentis
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
Open Source
The Selenium app has a pretty fat community of users. For the problems we are experiencing, we are primarily receiving support from these communities. In addition, there is widespread service support. Instant support is given to the problems we experience when we need Online support. We and our team are happy to provide this support, especially before important deployment processes
zahit bogus | TrustRadius Reviewer
zahit bogus
Business Intelligence & Database Consultant
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Tricentis
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
Verified User
Anonymous
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In-Person Training
Open Source
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Tricentis
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david leo | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Developer
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Online Training
Open Source
No answers on this topic
Tricentis
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david leo | TrustRadius Reviewer
david leo
Developer
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Implementation Rating
Open Source
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.
Dmitry Shyshkin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Dmitry Shyshkin
Lead QA Automation Engineer‏
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Tricentis
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Open Source
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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Tricentis
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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Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Open Source
  • There hasn’t been a downside to using it yet other than we’ve got to update the programs we create for each change.
  • This has saved us hundreds of hours of manpower by allowing our automation engineer to rapid fire tests.
  • We are able to screenshot and save entire sites before and after launch with a program the automation engineer created
  • We can compare large volumes of data against data in excel docs with a program created using Selenium
Janice Cruz (L.I.O.N.) | TrustRadius Reviewer
Janice Cruz (L.I.O.N.)
Quality Assurance Analyst
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Tricentis
  • 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.
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

Tricentis Tosca Screenshots

Screenshot of where no-code, model-based test automation separates the technical information of an application into reusable, no-code modules that can be updated as applications change, which auto-updates test cases.Screenshot of a test case design for risk optimization - this displays a flexible testing model that enables fast, easy test case creation and maintenance and reduces risk in app releases.Screenshot of requirements coverage for risk optimization - this enables users to prioritize requirements by business risk/ impact, understand what is needed to test, and gain business insight on defects to ensure smarter and faster release decisions.Screenshot of Vision AI - AI powered test automation using patented neural network technology to deliver resilient UI automation. Includes self-healing AI capabilities.Screenshot of service virtualization, which enables users to build realistic, simulated services in minutes to remove bottlenecks and run end-to-end tests faster in the software development lifecycle.Screenshot of test data management. This offers test data when it is needed and helps keep track of the data as it gets consumed across end-to-end business processes.