October 2008

The online service for TOSCA users and for everyone interested

Welcome to the new issue of TRICENTIS News!
The TRICENTIS Solutions Day was a greatly successful event. Our customers, as well as everyone interested in using TOSCA Testsuite™, had the chance to take a look in advance at the highlights of the new release, version 6.4.1. In this newsletter, we give you an overview of the new features, so that you can get the news even if you missed the Solutions Day.

We hope you will enjoy the reading!
Your TRICENTIS Team


In this issue:

TestCase Design AddIn

Capture Region

WebAccess in Firefox 3.0

New setup

Database adaptor

TestCase Design AddIn

It's here! TOSCA is the first tool to close the test management gap in test management and to offer a fully integrated TestCase design workbench. The workbench is available as an AddIn for TOSCA Commander and fully supports the TOSCA Commander concepts.
We have - as always - raised the bar and incorporated new and innovative, as well as proven concepts, providing the high level of usability you have come to expect from the TOSCA Testsuite™.

  • No complex guidelines. You only have to consider a few methodological principles and you are ready to start.
  • You can create reusable blocks (structural and equivalence classes) by drag & drop, without having to plan these in advance.
  • Everything you need is available in one view - there is no need to painfully gather all the information from different sources.
  • Links are created automatically by equal names for modules - representing the definitory level - and business objects.
  • TOSCA helps you to get a feeling for the concepts of TestCase design!
Capture Region

The complexity of applications is growing with the complexity of available programming languages. Due to the high number of detected controls, it can take several minutes to capture comprehensive screens in SAP and HTML environments. An effort that is not necessarily required if the user only needs parts of the screen for the automation.
TRICENTIS tackled this issue and implemented the "Capture Region" feature for SAP and HTML technologies. With the TOSCA Wizard, it is now possible to select a region of your application and only capture specific controls.

WebAccess in Firefox 3.0

In the last issue of our newsletter and with the last release of TOSCA Testsuite™, version 6.4.0, we introduced the new TOSCA web interface. With the new release, you can use TOSCA WebAccess with the latest version of Firefox.

New setup

With the new release of the TOSCA Testsuite™, version 6.4.1, the setup is delivered as a standard MSI (Windows Installer) package, so that our customers are provided with an updatable installation. The changes in the setup process will take effect with the next release, as the standard MSI functions for updates and patches will be able to be used for existing installations. You will experience the benefits of the simple update process when you upgrade to future versions of the TOSCA Testsuite™.

Database adaptor

With the TOSCA Testsuite™, users are not limited to testing graphical user interfaces. Previous TOSCA versions already supported the execution of database interactions. The completely redesigned Database adaptor offers improved modularization and flexible application possibilities. Database tables and views can be mapped in TOSCA with the TOSCA Wizard. The technical information (SQL statements) is not relevant for business users and can therefore be abstracted. All database interactions (read and verify, modify, insert, delete, etc.) can be used intuitively in TOSCA on the business level. You can get started instantly with the sample TestCases provided by TRICENTIS.


Are you interested in details on how to obtain the new version 6.4.1 of TOSCA Testsuite™? Please send an email to tosca-news@tricentis.com and indicate your currently installed version. Our team will promptly provide you with detailed information.

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