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Some of you are probably familiar with SAP Enterprise Continuous Testing (ECT) or also known using the name Tricentis Tosca. This tool is already on the market for several years and it is well known with the test automation community. It can be fully integrated with Solution Manger and there is also lite version available named “Tricentis Test Automation integrated with SAP Solution Manager”. The lite version is still fairly powerful, and it comes at no cost for customers, that do have Enterprise Support agreements with SAP.
Some while ago SAP in partnership with Tricentis have issued a new cloud offering called “Tricentis Test Automation integrated with SAP Cloud ALM”, I will refer to “TTA with CALM” in my blog to make it simpler. Some people also refer to this product as Tosca Cloud. But it isn’t the official naming used by neither SAP, neither Tricentis. This comes also free of charge for customers with Enterprise Support agreements. However, based on our experience this also comes without any costs to customers with Preferred Success and possibly to all customers using SAP Cloud ALM. However, I’m unable to verify this statement. And by the way SAP Cloud ALM is a very powerful tool and lot of our customers are unaware that they are eligible to use it free of charge as long as they have any Cloud product from SAP. I really recommend checking the eligibility with your SAP Account Executive.
Very recently SAP (I believe some time in 2024) SAP has also released a paid version called “SAP Test Automation by Tricentis (STA)”.
The below picture nicely depicts different product options and some high-level limitations.
Lot of customers are asking us for an advice on what tool do we recommend. Whether they should opt for the on-premise SAP ECT (Tosca) or they should go for SAP STA (Cloud Tosca) integrated with SAP Cloud ALM. Or their free of charge alternatives TTA
This isn’t really an easy question. However we have recently had a chance to work with the latest Cloud version, so I could provide my angle.
Firstly, I have to say that the cloud version is getting constant updates with every single quarter. And really, I believe SAP and Tricentis are investing a lot in order to make both tools comparable. The question we often get is, whether STA is on par with ECT. Well, a huge progress was recently made when STA & TTA with CALM also natively support automation of SAP GUI. Unfortunately, previously only automation of SAP Fiori was possible, which obviously had a bit of limited use for SAP customers, as many of them are in sort of hybrid phase and rely both on Fiori and GUI still.
Below picture illustrates STA roadmap in 2024 and beginning of 2025
If you need to decide on which tool you as organization want to use. You have to first understand what applications and process you want to test with test automation solution. Potentially there is also fifth SAP option and that is applicable for customers on S/4 HANA Public Cloud. If you run on S/4 HANA Public Cloud, then you can use so call „S4 HANA Cloud Test Automation Tool“. Maybe at some point this offering will contain rich features, I believe at this stage it provides limited functions. It can be nicely connected with Post Upgrade Tests, which from my point of view is really nice. However the inability to test Side-by-Side extensions makes the usability extremely limited to core proceses.
So back to the original question on what tool to select. If your landscape is predominantly cloud based with web UIs, and you use or plan to utilize SAP Cloud ALM then simply go for the “STA or TTA integrated with SAP Cloud ALM”. If your goal is to also automate non-SAP applications and non-Web based UIs, then simply go for SAP ECT (Tricentis Tosca).
Probably it is worth to consider following aspects:
There are however some limitations for TTA/STA developers, but I will summarize them in a different blog post.
SAP Cloud ALM test automation tool for SAP S/4HANA Cloud SOLMAN Test Suite SAP Continuous Integration and Delivery
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