As a leader in end-to-end, continuous testing, Tricentis Tosca has a longstanding reputation for delivering innovative and industry leading capabilities.

This is a reputation that we strive diligently to maintain. With each release, Tosca continues to evolve, bringing new features and improvements designed to help teams streamline test automation, reduce testing overhead, and advance testing for improved outcomes in software quality. 

However, we recognized that upgrading Tosca to access all the latest features has sometimes posed a few technical challenges for our customers, but these challenges have been substantially alleviated and upgrading to the latest version of Tricentis Tosca has never been easier or faster. In the past, the upgrade process involved scheduling downtime, manually backing up settings, uninstalling and reinstalling Tosca, and reapplying configurations—a tedious and time-consuming effort that often left customers delaying upgrades for several versions. With the recent release of Tosca 2024.1, that’s all changed. 

Now, the process is much more automated with an approach that aligns more closely with a typical server upgrade. Admins simply confirm the upgrade, and Tosca Server automatically detects existing configurations, captures relevant data, and applies the update. There's no need to uninstall and reinstall or manually reconfigure, significantly reducing downtime and effort, as well as substantially mitigates the risks of processes requiring manual effort. What once took hours or days can now be completed in minutes. 

This streamlined process ensures faster access to Tosca’s latest innovations, allowing customers to leverage the newest features and capabilities immediately. By simplifying the upgrade path, teams can focus on what matters most - enhancing their test automation efforts and improving software quality. 

Customers have already started to see the benefits. One of Tosca’s largest customers, in the middle of deciding to upgrade version 16.0 to 2023.2, decided to skip directly to 2024.1 when they discovered the new upgrade option became available. “The upgrade process for Tosca 2024 has been exceptional. It is simpler and faster.”. This feedback highlights the transformative impact of the new process on minimizing the complexity and time previously associated with upgrades. 

Tosca’s latest features are designed to further elevate test automation across organizations and the new upgrade process is a refined mechanism to help them get there faster. By eliminating manual steps and technical challenges of the past, the 2024.1 upgrade update allows teams to seamlessly adopt these advancements to enhance their test automation and quality initiatives without delays. 

What are some of these great new features, you might be wondering? If you would like to learn more about the latest capabilities that we released as part of Tosca 2024.1, you can view this on-demand webinar “Elevate your test automation strategy with Tosca 2024.1”, where members of the Tosca product team covered not only the upgrade process, but also: 

• Exciting new capabilities for Tosca’s cloud deployment option, including transitioning test cases to the cloud 

• New Tosca Mobile capabilities, including Ionic framework support and usability enhancements 

• Test automation support for security applications and steps, including Cyberark, SSO and multi-factor authentication 

• Automation updates and enhancements for packaged apps like SAP and Salesforce 

• Much more… 

With this enhanced upgrade process, Tosca is enabling teams to enjoy access to all the latest features designed to help our customers stay ahead of the curve in today’s fast-paced testing environments – and there is much more to come just around the corner, so stay tuned!