Admin guide

Hello, admin, and welcome to Tosca Cloud! This section has all the information you need to make important setup decisions for your instance of Tosca Cloud.

Here's our recommended workflow:

  1. Check out Tosca Cloud architecture to get a better understanding of key components and concepts.

  2. Get Tosca Cloud by using an existing license or starting a trial.

  3. Register your organization's account to create a tenant for Tosca Cloud.

  4. Choose a test authoring environment to set up your testers' workstations.

  5. Choose a test execution environment to run tests.

  6. Optionally, set up the simulation environment to simulate services that your test application relies on.

  7. Manage your organization and space to add users, create additional workspaces, or manage your plan.

Get Tosca Cloud

Once you're ready to dive into the product, get Tosca Cloud by accessing an existing license or starting a trial.

Register your organization's account

You've just received a notification email that your Tosca Cloud is now available. To activate your organization's account, follow the link and instructions in the email.

Keep these things in mind:

  • The person who activates the account is the tenant owner for Tosca Cloud. This means they get elevated permissions.

  • The tenant name is important for setting up team agents or Simulator agents. Make sure you take note of it during the activation process.

    If you're not sure what your tenant name is, check your Tosca Cloud URL:

    https://<your tenant name>.my.tricentis.com/

    For example, if your Tosca Cloud URL is https://acmecompany.my.tricentis.com, your tenant name is acmecompany.

  • If your license doesn't get activated automatically upon registration, you can activate it manually.

Set up the test authoring environment

To set up your test authoring environment, you need to set up your user machines. These are the workstations on which testers design tests, perform trial runs, and trigger actual test runs.

Set up the test execution environment

The test execution environment you choose determines what you need to set up to run tests. In Tosca Cloud, so-called "agents" run your tests:

  • Team agents, which are installed on your premises, typically on virtual machines, and maintained by you. These agents support web tests in all browsers installed on the machine. As a beta feature, they also support tests for SAP GUI for Windows applications and Windows-based applications.

    To use team agents, you need to perform a set up on your agent machines.

  • Cloud agents, which are hosted in the Tricentis cloud and fully maintained by us. These agents support web tests in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge as well as API tests.

    To use cloud agents, you don't need to set up anything. Please note that cloud agents are a beta feature.

By the way, team vs. cloud agents isn't an either/or decision. You can also use a combination of the two.

Set up the simulation environment

API simulation lets you simulate services that your test application needs to interact with. That way you can still run your tests, even if these services are under development, offline, or broken.

To simulate services, you need to install a Simulator agent. You can connect the Simulator agent to Tosca Cloud.

Manage your organization and space

Once your product environment is ready, you need to get your team into Tosca Cloud and prepare the work environment: