About Elastic Execution Grid

Elastic Execution Grid (E2G) is part of Tosca Cloud that lets you run tests unattended and in parallel, across multiple agents. This means E2G distributes your tests across all available agents at the same time, so your tests run simultaneously instead of one after another.

E2G also has the following benefits:

  • Cloud agents run public web and API tests with no infrastructure on your side.

  • E2G scales automatically, so you don't provision capacity ahead of time.

  • Tosca Cloud automatically updates your agents, so you don't have to install updates yourself.

  • Parallel execution shortens regression cycles and fits into CI/CD.

  • Dashboards and reports give your team shared visibility without a license for every viewer.

Your execution license works for team agents, cloud agents, or a mix of both. For example, if you purchase 10 Elastic Execution Agents, you get a pool of 10 agents that you can configure as team, cloud, or any mix totaling 10.

Before you start

Make sure you have the following:

  • A Tosca Cloud tenant with an execution license for team agents and/or cloud agents.

  • Outbound access from your agent machines to your tenant. Check out Ports and connections for details.

  • For team agent machines, check out our E2G agent hardware.

How to run tests with E2G

There are two ways to run tests on E2G:

  • Run tests entirely within Tosca Cloud: upload your test cases and execution lists, then maintain and run them using personal or team agents or cloud agents.

  • Use hybrid execution: keep your tests on-premises and trigger execution through E2G. Results flow back into both your on-premises Tosca on-prem installation and Tosca Cloud.

Once you've chosen your agent type, check out Run tests unattended and in parallel with E2G to set up unattended or parallel execution.

What's next

Now that you understand E2G, here's what you can do next: