Semi-automated software testing with TOSCA

Intermediate stage or an alternative to end-to-end tests

A comprehensive test of complex IT systems also considers the connection of individual systems to the whole environment. The required tests can be set up as end-to-end tests (E2E), but are then extremely elaborate and tedious. If the connected system is not available, the E2E test will not succeed. This problem can be solved via tests which begin and/or end with the interfaces of the systems to be tested.

TOSCA allows you to test any given interface

. Tests that you execute completely manually as E2E tests turn into semi-automated tests: the GUI interactions remain manual and the behavior of the connected systems is simulated via automated steering of the interface using TOSCA.

Manual tests, which run via the GUI, can be automated step by step in TOSCA. In this way, an incremental evolution from the manual to the automated test is achieved.