Step By Step Installation of Tricentis Tosca

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Welcome to this Post!- “Step By Step Installation Of Tosca”. This post illustrates exact steps required for installing Tricentis Tosca on your machine right from creation of the user account to the successful installation of the product. The post provides you proper guide that can be followed to have one time successful installation of Tricentis Tosca Commander on your machine.So, go ahead and enjoy reading…

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Before begin our step by step installation of Tosca, there are few prerequisites describes below:

Check your system hardware requirements is meeting up with minimum set up requirements discussed here:

Hardware requirements for Tosca

• CPU – i5 Dual-Core 2.4Ghz
• RAM – 8 GB
• Hard disk space – 5 GB

 

Software requirements for Tosca are described below:

1. Local administrator rights are required for the all feature installation, plus write permission is required for directory %TRICENTIS_PROJECTS% (obviously for reading and writing your workspace objects).
2. Microsoft® .NET Framework Version 4.7.1 (Win 7, Win 8.1, Win 10).
3. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64/x86).
4. Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable Package Update 4 (x64/x86).
5. Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package SP1 (x86).
6. Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable Package Update 2 (x86).
7. .NET Framework 4.7.1

In case you don’t have these software’s it will be installed as part of installation.

Below are the steps which are required for Step By Step installation of Tosca.

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Registering and downloading the trial

So start by visiting the website :

https://www.tricentis.com/automated-software-testing-tool-trial/

as discussed below:

1.- First Screen asks your email, kindly fill out your email and submit. This will bring you to next screen.

2.- Once you have clicked on “Get Started” button next screen will be shown for entering more details about your role, company, etc.

3.- Once your have submitted all the details, you will see a “Thank you” screen. And now you will receive some emails where email verification and trial download link will be shared.

4.- Once you open your shared email account, you will get a similar email shown below, click on “Download Now” button and your email will be verified along with you can start downloading the trial.

5.- Once this is done, you can simultaneously check the support portal login (http://support.tricentis.com/) to check your account gets verified or not. Use your email and register yourself in case the activation doesn’t asks you to register yourself here. If suppose account is not verified, you will see a yellow link stating “unverified” link just before the “Create Incident” link on upper left corner of the screen.

Note: till your account is not verified, you will not be able to activate the trial.

Below are the manual steps needed to complete the installation of Tosca.

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Installation Steps- :

1. Identify the location of downloaded file “Tosca<version>.exe” on your system.
2. Right Click on the exe file and “Run as administrator”.
3. Tricentis Tosca needs some prerequisites to work properly.:

You can execute the file Tosca<version number>.exe to start the installation process. This will show any missing components in the InstallShield dialog box, see below:

Fig:Example of components to be installed

Fig: Screen 1 of installation wizard shown below.

4. Click Next for screen where you see its calculating space required.
5. Click on “Install” to start the installation process.

********IMPORTANT NOTE***********

During the installation process, the operating system(OS) will be restarted. Once the components have been installed successfully, Tricentis Tosca will be installed on your computer,

6. Select the components for which you have license or if you have trial you can just click “next” for selecting Default option and leave the rest,

7. Once this is done, several times system might restart. Don’t panic its part of installation.

 

8. Once installation is complete, you will see icon on desktop. Click on that icon. Once you click you will see Tosca opening up and validating license.

9. This screen will check and validate for license, since it will not find any it will open below screen for you to enter the valid license,

Now you have 2 options:

1. You can enter the license file which you have received in your email while registering.
2. You can go for option “Connect”, then click on “Connect to Cloud”,

 

10. Once you enter credentials of support portal with which you have registered, you will see screen verifying those and fetching the license on your machine.

11. You will see “Tosca Trial” node will appear. Expand it and you will see the license detail for each AddIn which is part of Trial and its expiry date,

 

12. Now click on “Checkout Licenses”, and choose the date in calendar; till which date you want these licenses to be checked-out by you. Once its checked out, you will “Everything is fine, you got a license.” Message .

Now this completes your installation, right from registration to completed full step by step installation of Tosca. If you still have any questions on this, please do share those in your comments.

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