Admin guide

Hello, admin, and welcome to Tricentis Tosca in the cloud! This section has all the information you need to make important setup decisions for your instance of Tosca.

Here's our recommended workflow:

  1. Check out Tricentis Tosca in the cloud architecture to get a better understanding of key components and concepts.

  2. Register your organization's account to create a tenant for Tricentis Tosca.

  3. Choose a test authoring environment to set up your testers' workstations.

  4. Choose a test execution environment to run tests.

  5. Optionally, set up the simulation environment to simulate services that your test application relies on.

  6. Manage your organization and space to add users, create additional workspaces, or manage your plan.

Register your organization's account

You've just received a notification email that your Tosca cloud deployment is now available. To activate your organization's account, follow the link and instructions in the email.

Keep these things in mind:

  • The person who activates the account is the tenant owner for Tosca. This means they get elevated permissions.

  • The tenant name is important for setting up team agents or Simulator agents. Make sure you take note of it during the activation process. It's the variable part of your Tricentis Tosca URL:

    https://<your tenant name>.my.tricentis.com/

  • If your license doesn't get activated automatically upon registration, you can activate it manually.

Choose a test authoring environment

The test authoring environment you choose determines how you need to set up your user machines. These are the workstations on which testers create tests, perform trial runs, and trigger actual test runs.

Here are your options:

  • Create tests with Tosca XScan. Tosca XScan supports web applications and—as a beta feature—SAP GUI for Windows applications and Windows-based applications. It's available for Windows only, and it requires a setup on user machines.

  • Create tests with Cloud Scanner. Tosca XScan is a beta feature that supports web applications only. It's available for Windows and any macOS that supports .NET 8, and it doesn't require any setup on user machines.

We recommend that you discuss this with your test managers, to decide what works best for your organization. For a tester's perspective on the differences between these options, check out Cloud Scanner vs. Tosca XScan.

Choose a test execution environment

The test execution environment you choose determines what you need to set up to run tests. In Tricentis Tosca, so-called "agents" run your tests:

  • Team agents, which are installed on your premises, typically on virtual machines, and maintained by you. These agents support web tests in all browsers installed on the machine. As a beta feature, they also support tests for SAP GUI for Windows applications and Windows-based applications.

    To use team agents, you need to perform a set up on your agent machines.

  • Cloud agents, which are hosted in the Tricentis cloud and fully maintained by us. These agents support web tests in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge as well as API tests.

    To use cloud agents, you don't need to set up anything. Please note that cloud agents are a beta feature.

By the way, team vs. cloud agents isn't an either/or decision. You can also use a combination of the two.

Set up the simulation environment

API simulation lets you simulate services that your test application needs to interact with. That way you can still run your tests, even if these services are under development, offline, or broken.

To simulate services, you need to install a Simulator agent. If you want to connect the Simulator agent to Tricentis Tosca in the cloud, you also need to configure it.

Manage your organization and space

Once your product environment is ready, you need to get your team into Tricentis Tosca and prepare the work environment: