What is Tricentis Testim?
Tricentis Testim is an AI-powered test automation platform designed to address the challenges of modern software development. It uses machine learning to speed up the authoring, execution, and maintenance of automated tests. Unlike traditional testing tools that rely on brittle selectors, Testim’s “Smart Locators” identify elements based on multiple attributes, making tests far more resilient to code changes. This significantly reduces the time development teams spend on fixing broken tests, allowing them to focus on building new features.
Key Features
- AI-Powered Smart Locators: Testim automatically identifies the best locators for each element and weighs them based on reliability. If one breaks, it uses others to find the element, preventing test failure.
- Self-Healing Tests: When your application’s code changes, Testim’s AI automatically updates the tests to reflect the new structure, a process known as self-healing.
- Fast Test Authoring: Users can record test steps by simply interacting with their application in the browser. These steps can be easily customized, grouped into reusable components, and enhanced with custom code.
- Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform: Execute tests across multiple browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari) and on different platforms, including mobile emulators.
- Visual Validation: Go beyond functional testing by adding assertions that check for visual regressions, ensuring your UI looks exactly as intended.
- Root Cause Analysis: When a test does fail, Testim provides detailed information, including before-and-after screenshots and logs, to help you quickly identify the root cause of the failure.
Use Cases
- Agile & DevOps Teams: Perfect for teams practicing continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) who need to run reliable regression suites quickly.
- End-to-End Testing: Automate complex user journeys that span multiple pages and interactions, such as user registration, checkout processes, or data entry forms.
- Reducing Test Maintenance: Teams spending too much time fixing tests built with Selenium or other frameworks can migrate to Testim to dramatically lower their maintenance burden.
- SaaS Application Testing: Ensure the stability and quality of complex, frequently updated web applications.
Getting Started
Getting started with Testim is designed to be intuitive and requires no initial coding.
- Sign Up and Install Extension: Create a free account on the Tricentis Testim website and install their Chrome extension.
- Record a New Test: Navigate to your web application and click the Testim extension icon to start recording.
- Perform User Actions: Interact with your application as a user would—click buttons, fill out forms, navigate between pages. Testim will capture every action.
- Add Assertions: During or after recording, you can add validation steps to ensure elements are visible, contain specific text, or match a visual baseline.
- Save and Run: Save the test and run it immediately in the Testim cloud grid. You can watch the test execute step-by-step and see the results instantly.
This codeless approach allows anyone on the team, including manual QAs and product managers, to contribute to the automation effort.
Pricing
Tricentis Testim operates on a Freemium model:
- Community (Free): A generous free plan that includes a limited number of test runs per month, perfect for small projects or for evaluating the platform.
- Essentials & Professional: Paid subscription tiers that offer more test runs, parallel executions, advanced features, and dedicated support for growing teams and businesses.
- Enterprise: A custom plan for large organizations with specific needs for security, compliance, and scale.