Tricentis Tosca UI & API Test Automation Tool for Beginners

Explore what a Tosca module is, its types, the standard module and its skeleton-building role, plus classic vs ecs engines used by the standard categories.

Install the Tosca browser extension to enable app scanning and module creation. Use Tosca commander to scan your application and add elements as module attributes.

Resolve the could not connect to Tosca Automation Service error by reinstalling the task automation service via command prompt, starting the service, and verifying it in the service manager.

select the application for module creation in Tosca, scan the browser page to capture elements into a module, and choose between module bar scan or right-click scan.

Learn how the Tosca axis scan UI auto-detects web elements, supports basic and condensed views, and adds elements to a module with highlight, identify option, filters, and content previews.

Create your first Tosca module by scanning a demo web shop login page and selecting email, password, and login button. Save and view the module in Tosca Commander.

Learn to uniquely identify web elements in Tosca using properties like id and name, and anchor for stable, reliable module scans.

Identify elements in Tosca by image and by index after using properties and anchors as the primary method. Learn image-based locating with reference images and index to handle duplicates.

Learn how to rescan modules to update elements and add or remove items in Tosca, and merge duplicate modules to create a single login module.

Apply Tosca module best practices, create one module per page with only necessary elements, merge duplicates, rename for clarity, and use stable module attributes.

Locate comboboxes by id, not inner text, to improve robustness. Apply module best practices: avoid index and image-based identification, use control groups, clear names, and cardinality.

Create your first Tosca test case by opening the URL, entering dummy credentials on the login page, and verifying an unsuccessful login with standard modules and test steps.

Learn to create a Tosca business test case under a release, map requirements to automation tests, drag tests in, register and login steps, and run via execution lists.

Learn Tosca test case best practices, including using the repetition property for multi-product scenarios, drag and drop in design, unique test case names, recovery and cleanup, and proper retry levels.

Learn how Tosca's test configuration parameter parameterizes test data with predefined and custom options at test case, folder, and execution list levels, including browser values like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.

Create a custom test configuration parameter at the release level, such as a URL, and reference it in tests using the configuration parameter syntax.

Explore Tosca action modes that drive test steps by mapping values. Learn the two categories—input operations and reading operations—with examples like wait on, select, input, verify, and buffer.

Explain data types and work states in Tosca Commander, using the column chooser, and how action mode and data type guide input and statuses like plant, in work, and complete.

Generate random values in Tosca for test steps by creating random integers, decimals, and strings, including unique timestamps and regex-based strings, with optional lower and upper limits.

Use dynamic date and time expressions in Tosca to generate current dates, apply base dates and deviations, and format results for test validations and test configurations.

Learn to create reusable test blocks in Tosca by building a central library, reusing common steps across test cases, and propagating library changes to reduce rework and maintenance.

Learn how to merge duplicate reusable test blocks in Tricentis Tosca by ensuring identical name value action mode, merging duplicate modules first, and preserving the exact order of test steps.

Learn how to resolve reference between a reusable test block and a test case in Tosca, disconnect the reference, and modify the test case without affecting the library.

Learn how to create and apply business parameters inside a reusable tester block in Tosca to set per-test-case values for automobile, truck, and motorcycle selections.

Create a reusable test block with all business parameters at once in Tosca commander, selecting required values. Add a column level value range to restrict maker to Audi, BMW, BYD.

Learn to scan a table in Tosca, ensure unique identification using inner text and wildcards, and locate data with coordinates for reliable table-based tests.

Showcase two table scan methods in Tosca: wildcard inner text versus whole data scans, explain how column-based scanning preserves uniqueness, and when to use anchors or class IDs.

Fetch values from a Tosca table by navigating to the second row and third column, buffer the team name into a variable, and count total rows including the header.

Learn to interact with table cells in Tosca by adding embedded controls for links, radio buttons, checkboxes, and images, and overcome cell input property errors to click and open details.