Tosca Cloud integration

Tricentis Tosca offers two deployments: on-premises and cloud (opens in new tab).

With the cloud deployment, you can create and run tests within a SaaS application hosted by Tricentis. Plus, you can take advantage of the cloud's enhanced test execution service, Elastic Execution Grid. It's similar to the on-premises Tosca Distributed Execution, but faster and easier to scale.

If you're interested in cloud, this topic is for you. It explains what options you have for integration, so you can decide what works best for your projects. The topic also has links to detailed instructions on how to set up and start to use these integrations in your day-to-day.

Choose your integration

There are different ways you can use both deployments of Tricentis Tosca: 

• Transition: upload on-premises tests to Tosca Cloud.

• Test execution integration (beta feature): keep your tests on-premises but run them in Tosca Cloud.

By the way, this isn't a hard either/or decision. You can also choose to take advantage of both.

Understand transition

If you choose transition, you upload test artifacts to Tosca Cloud and run them there. Uploading creates a copy in the Tosca Cloud workspace you define during the upload.

We recommend a transition if either of these things apply to you:

• You're just starting out with Tosca Cloud and want to familiarize yourself with it.

• You're thinking about moving from on-premises to cloud and want to get started.

Understand test execution integration

The test execution integration between Tosca on-premises and Tosca Cloud is in public beta and still under development. We don't guarantee full functionality in this or in future versions. Tosca Cloud—and Elastic Execution Grid—themselves have fully transitioned to general availability.

If you choose test execution integration, you keep your tests on-premises but run them in Tosca Cloud. To run tests in Tosca Cloud, you use the cloud's test execution service, Elastic Execution Grid. Tosca displays results in both deployments: on-premises and cloud.

We recommend a test execution integration if either of these things apply to you:

• You're happy with the full range of functionality on-premises but want to take advantage of cloud test execution.

• You're just starting out with Tosca on-premises and are considering different test execution options.

Please note the following:

• You need infrastructure in Tosca Cloud. If you already have DEX Agents, you can also set them up for cloud tests. For details on different cloud test execution options, check out this infrastructure topic (opens in new tab) in the Tosca Cloud manual.

• You need configurations in Tosca Cloud, especially if you want to run specific tests on specific machines. For details, check out this topic on "characteristics" (opens in new tab) in the Tosca Cloud manual.