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What Is Testim?
Tricentis Testim accelerates UI testing for web, cloud-native, and mobile customer-facing applications. Testim’s AI-powered self-healing and auto-improving Smart Locators keep tests stable and minimize maintenance. Execute parallel, cross-browser tests on the Testim grid. Agile teams scale efficiently with tools to help control and manage the growth in tests and teams.
Who Uses Testim?
Developers, Automation Engineers, and QA Testers who need a modern approach to automate software testing for their web applications.
Where can Testim be deployed?
About the vendor
- Tricentis
- Located in Atlanta, US
- Founded in 1997
Testim support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Languages
English
Testim pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- Yes, has free version
Testim has a free version and offers a free trial. Testim paid version starts at US$450.00/month.
Pricing plans get a free trialAbout the vendor
- Tricentis
- Located in Atlanta, US
- Founded in 1997
Testim support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Languages
English
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Features of Testim
Reviews of Testim
It's an amazing product. Stable tests created in minutes & results are easily analyzed.
Comments:
We are very satisfied with Testim.
It easy to use & Provides great results in minimum time.
We definitely recommend it as a main testing platform!
Pros:
With Testim, our time from development to Production has decreased to minutes. It allows us to test new features in no time with full regression test coverage & CI integration. Test stability is very high, the results are easy to read and diagnose.
Cons:
we still have some difficult with image verification (on dynamic map).
Tricentis Response
6 years ago
Hi Naom, thank you so much for your feedback. We are proud to serve customers like you and your team. We strive on making automation simpler and reliable and glad that you are seeing the results of that. We do use a 3rd party vendor for image verification specifically, it is not part of Testim but we could still ensure we make that integration seamless for you so that, you do not face any problems. We have noted your feedback. Meanwhile, if you are not specifically looking for pixel level validation (for which we use our 3rd party vendor), what you could do is you could use other types of validations available to you within Testim like element visible, element not visible etc to check whether the right element is getting displayed. Check out this help document for more info - http://docs.testim.io/getting-started/validations. We value your business and we are always there to support your team 24/7.
I believe that Testim.io is present and future of automation
Comments:
From my experience with different automation tools in the past I wholeheartedly believe that "Automation is not an auto-magic". To be efficient, it requires investment. And open source automation tools are not that free as it might seem.
I have been dealing for months with all these "around automation" issues - setups, configurations, environment maintenance, and other technical infrastructure which is important because automation won't work if I don't handle that, but the time that was left for really authoring tests which could show actual value was about 20% of my time (not even talking about dealing with locators and other ongoing maintenance).
This is why I truly believe that to bring real value to my company it would be most effective if we hand over this "side-effect headache" to external professionals who will take care of everything but the business flows and we will add coverage much faster.
Testim gives great value for money allowing to deliver high quality software in a shorter time.
Additionally, Testim is more than just software. It is also a community, shared by Testim staff and customers, where we have the opportunity to exchange customers experiences, participate in road map reviews, join various automation expert panels being held on an ongoing basis and this whole thing increases our level of expertise providing the opportunity to share and learn. This professional growth of employees is definitely a gift companies gain from their cooperation with Testim.
Pros:
Testim did great job investigating and addressing all famous automation pain points. First, they take care of all the "side work" (environments, code libraries, setups, versions, etc.) allowing companies to fully concentrate on increasing testing coverage of their business flows. Second, being stable, reliable and intuitive solution, it allows achieving impressive outcome quite fast. Following best practices, it is quite easy to build very scalable automation project. There was nothing I couldn't achieve with Testim using it for almost a year by now. Next, the Smart Locators mechanism proves itself de-facto: UI changes but tests keeps running identifying the elements by alternative identifiers. Last but not least, reporting tools are highly self explanatory allowing developers to easily analyze failures and release QA bottle neck. To summarize, Testim.io is quite a robust tool allowing to establish and maintain effective automation using both codeless and coded techniques. It is important to understand, that technical background is required to achieve success in automation project. Record&Play is a great start, however in order to be scalable, following the concepts of programming basics (such as reusable components, parameters, loops and conditions) is essential in order to be able to always extend the coverage rather than spending time on tests' maintenance upon application changes. Having the availability (and passion 🙂) is all you need in order to succeed with Testim.
Cons:
There are always things to improve to any software and I have a list of my "nice to have" enhancement requests which is being addressed in our Product-Customers channel. None of them is a showstopper.
Is Testim customizable?
Pros:
Easily usable and can be used by anyone.
Cons:
It doesnt look customizable. Suppose I need to add certain if else or loops to it, i cant find a way to do so
Tricentis Response
5 years ago
First of all, we are glad that you found Testim easy to use. We try to abstract all the features within their specific sections to provide a minimalistic approach with our UI design. Secondly, Yes, Testim is customizable. It is one of the primary features of our platform, where teams can add their own custom code using javaScript and also can make use of Configuration files and run hooks to talk to any external databases such as excel, SQL etc. You will find information about this in these 2 documents. https://docs.testim.io/en/articles/371899-custom-validations-and-actions and https://docs.testim.io/en/articles/371984-configuration-file-run-hooks. In summary, if there is something the tool does not provide, you can add your own code for additional functionalities.
Ideal framework for E2E automation testing
Comments:
We have more than 50 users that using Testim on a daily basis. It is a very simple platform that everybody can learn just in a few minutes.
They releasing new features and adding more functionality almost every week.
Once of the best products that I've ever used.
Pros:
- Easy of use - Various great features such as: Branches/Parallel tests/Scheduler runner/API Actions/Email/Custom JavaScript Editor and many more - Amazing customer & technical support
Cons:
- Can't copy steps from one project to another - Lack of a mobile automation
Alternatives Considered: Cypress
Reasons for Choosing Testim: Cypress was complicated for manual QA engineers and it takes time to write a test
Switched From: Cypress
Great code-less QA automation testing tool
Comments: My experience has a positive one. The tool does it says, and it does it well. It's easy to use and easy to maintain. The team picked it up pretty quickly. No coding necessary.
Pros:
The product is easy to use, with intuitive features
Cons:
Sometimes I can wait for a while for support...
Alternatives Considered: Qualitia
Reasons for Choosing Testim: Katalon raised the price for a critical service to our CI pipeline. It became unaffordable.
Switched From: Katalon Studio
Reasons for Switching to Testim: Price, ease of use and its reputation