In-Depth Guide on How to Use Tricentis’ Tosca with the HeadSpin Platform

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In-Depth Guide on How to Use Tricentis ’ Tosca with the HeadSpin Platform

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Jamie MooreJamie Moore
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What is Tosca?

Tricentis ’ Tosca is a Uninterrupted Testing platform that accelerates test to keep rate with Agile and DevOps. With the industry ’ s virtually innovative functional testing engineering, Tricentis Tosca breaks through the barriers experienced with conventional examination tools. Using Tricentis Tosca, enterprise squad achieve unprecedented 90 % + test automation rates—enabling them to deliver the fast and continuous feedback required for Agile and DevOps.

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Tricentis Tosca provides a individual, codeless, AI-powered platform that can test virtually everything from mobile, web, PDF, Java, Citrix and C.P.U. to critical enterprise applications like SAP, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. With Tosca ’ s unique model-based engineering, you can well create and maintain machine-driven end-to-end tests and ensure your tests remain resilient, even in rapidly changing IT environments.

What Are The Benefits of Using Tosca?

Tosca is an manufacture result automation tool with a number of benefits, such as:

  • Build codeless, resilient automated exam
  • Optimize the risk coverage with less test effort
  • Access and provision reliable tryout data
  • Simulate exam environments
  • Eliminate data integrity issues
  • Test smarter with AI-powered test automation
  • Automate more with intuitive recording
  • Shift leave with API testing
  • Boost lot test execution

How Do I Get Started With Tosca?

It ’ s easy to get started with Tricentis Tosca. Just see their website page for a Free Trialhereand occupy out the form. You ’ ll get an email to download the Tosca induction file, for illustration, for version 15.2 the filename is: Tricentis_Tosca_15.2_LTS.zip.

Unzip the file and dual click on the install file:

Tricesntis-Tosca-Installation-File-View

This will depart the facility process and you will be prompted for the installation location and Tosca components to install. The following are some screens that you will see during the installation.

Tricentis Tosca Installation

Tosca will install these prerequisites if they are not already installed on your scheme.

Tricentis Tosca Setup

Select your components to install:

type of installation setup Tricentis Tosca

Select your installation directory:

installation directory where Tosca will be installed

Click through the rest of the prompts until you get to this screen and then click onInstall.

summary of the installation setup and the installation button

Click on Yesto start the induction

User account control

When the installation is complete, open your Start Menu and click onTosca Commander:

Tosca Commander

You will then be prompted to enter your user information which you utilise to set up your account. Once you enter the information, you ’ ll be ready to begin!

Authenticate Tricentis Tosca Setup

Question: Do I need to install anything special/specific for HeadSpin?

Answer: No, testing on the HeadSpin platform is supported by the standard installation of Tosca with no special module or libraries required. You don ’ t even receive to instal Appium locally.

Why Would I Want to Use the HeadSpin Platform for Automation Testing with Tosca?

There are a number of reasons why you would want to use the Headspin Platform for your Tosca automation trial:

  • Diversity of available devices and locations around the world
  • No limit on how many tryout can run concurrently
  • Utilize the comprehensive KPI information capture, include all network traffic to the device
  • Use the Regression Analysis feature of Headspin to conduct in-depth session analysis and comparison
  • Ease of reporting with Headspin ’ s Dashboard capabilities

How Do I Create a Recording on a HeadSpin Device With Tosca?

It is very leisurely to record your interactions with a roving coating or mobile web browser using Tosca.

Click on Modules->Scan->Mobile

Create Recording on HeadSpin Device With Tosca

This will start the XScan engine and bring up thePeregrine Scanwindow. It ’ s a 2-step process to get started. You will need to define the gimmick (s) and the application (s) that you desire to use for transcription.

Add a Device

To define the twist, simply snap on theAdd Deviceplus signal.

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In the Add devicewindow, clickAdd Newto create a new connection.

Adding device to HeadSpin platform

Enter a name for the connection; this is free-form so select a meaningful name. Then clink on the dropdown arrow for theTypeand chooseRemote.

Image of the page where you can enter the name and type of connection you're adding.

Now you will need to get the Appium Server address for the device. To do so, go to the HeadSpin platform UI and, for the device that you want to use, click on the 3 erect dots to the far right:

In the pop-up, selectAutomation Configuration.

Screenshot of the popup that comes when you click on the 3 vertical dots.

Copy the Web Driver URL value by either manually foreground the value and copying it to the clipboard, or click on theClick to copy icon.

Screenshot of the section where you get the sever address of the device.

Paste this value into the theEnter the Appium Server addressfield and clink onAdd:

Screenshot of the page where you need to past the sever image.

Add an Application

Next, you will need to specify the application for recording. To do so, click on theAdd appplus sign.

Screenshot of the section where you can add apps

In the App coatingwindow, select the case of application to add, eitherNative/Hybrid or Web and click Continue.

Image showing the add app section where you can add with native/hybrid or web apps

In the Add native/hybrid coveringwindow, select eitheriOS or Androidand enrol the name for your application, and then enter the covering identifier: bundleID for iOS, AppPackage/AppActivity for Android. ClickAdd.

Image showing the native/hybrid add app section where you can select either iOS or Android.

For a mobile web test transcription, simply selectWeb and click Continue

Image showing the page where you select the web app

Then inscribe theURL and click Add:

Image showing the web add app section where you enter the name and URL

Start Scanning Your Application

To commence the scanning operation, in thePeregrine Scanwindow, take the twist and application and pawl onConnect. To interact with the gimmick, ensure thatRun Live Viewis selected. You can selectReset applicationif you need the application to be fully reset upon starting.

Image of the page that shows the addition of device and app.

Once the Connection shewwindow appears, you can tick onScanto start the scanning operation.

Screenshot of the "Connection established" page.
Zoomed out version of the connection established page and a live shot of the app.

If you would care to view the device in the HeadSpin UI while you are scanning, you can click on the blue magnifier icon for the device:

By moving/resizing the windows, you can see it from both the Tosca view as well as the HeadSpin perspective.

Windows resized showing the HeadSpin and the Tosca view.

Interact with your application to record the steps and exam data. For information on how to perform this, delight refer to the Tosca corroboration.

Image showing interaction with the app and recording of steps.

Another image showing interaction with the app and recording of steps.

Once you have completed your application scanning, click on theClose button.

Image showing view when you close the test

This will create your recordedModuleswhich you can then add to yourTest Case.

How Do I Configure My Test Case to Execute on a HeadSpin Device?

Add Test Configuration Parameters

To execute your Test Case on a HeadSpin device, you just need to add some Test Configuration parameters for the device. In your Test Case, detent onTest configurationand add a parameter forAppiumServer, DeviceName(the HeadSpin Device ID) andApplication(bundleID for iOS, AppPackage/AppActivty for Android). If you need to follow the execution via Tosca, enter aLiveViewargument as well.

Screenshot showing the test configuration page.

Leverage the power of the HeadSpin program

You can add some extra HeadSpin specific Desired Capabilities to take advantage of the power of the HeadSpin program. For representative, to show the session and capture the mesh traffic, add a Desired Capability callheadspin: captureand set the value totrue. Additionally, to automatically add the session to a HeadSpin User Flow, add a Desired Capability calledheadspin: testNameand give it the appropriate User Flow name.

An model is below:

Add the Open Mobile App module

For mobile application testing, you will necessitate to add a step to start/open the mobile coating. Right detent in yourTest Case (or Ctrl+T) and select:Search and Add TestStep

Right click test case options screenshot

You will need to add this step as one of your inaugural measure, perchance in aPreconditions folder. 
In the TestStep, enter the covering identifier for your covering, either bundleID for iOS or AppPackage/AppActivity for Android.

Screenshot of the TestStep page

Start Your Test

You can run your test and either watch the twist via theLiveView(if enable):

Screenshot of live view

or in the Headspin UI. In the Headspin UI click on the blue magnify glass as done when scanning:

Full screenshot of the live view

Test Results

Tosca

When the test completes, you can view the results within Tosca. For exemplar, when running out of Scratchbook, you can see each step issue:

Screenshot of ScratchBook test result

HeadSpin Performance Session

If you enabled theheadspin: seizureDesired Capability, you can reckon the Performance Session to catch the results captured by HeadSpin:

Conclusion

You can well configure Tosca to utilize the devices within HeadSpin for both scanning and creating trial as good as test execution. This allows you to take advantage of two industry leading technologies in the test grocery: test automation from Tricentis and diverse device endpoints from HeadSpin.

Combining these two engineering will provide you with a world-class testing environment and will permit you to test faster with more comprehensive exam coverage and in-depth analysis after the tests have been finish.

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