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Tricentis Tosca

Tricentis

 

 

Overview

When your software engineering teams use Agile methods, requirements created by business analysts or user stories created by developers must flow easily to your QA team. This ensures that tests are written directly against these requirements or stories. 

 


 

Connector Setup Details

This section describes the basic steps needed to prepare your Tricentis Tosca instance for use with Viz.

Minimal User Permissions & Viz User

We recommend that you create a new user within your external tool, to be used only for Viz. This is the user information you will enter when setting up your tool connection within Planview Viz. By creating a new user, you will ensure that the correct permissions are granted.

In general, your user account should have sufficient permissions to read artifacts in your tool. 

Your user should have a secure password or token. Please be aware that Viz will not allow you to save a tool connection utilizing a weak password/token, such as 'tasktop.'

See instructions on how to create a new sync user in Tricentis Tosca.

List of minimal user permissions:

  • Viz supports local workspace users only (LDAP users are not supported)
  • User should be under the "Admins" user group to view/retrieve a list of users.
  • User should have Set Result allowed enabled to set the execution results.
  • User should have Level as "Expert" or "Advanced" to have read/write permissions on multiuser projects.

Note: The credentials you supply must be valid for every workspace you plan to include in your collection (in Hub) or query (in Sync). 

Connecting to the Tricentis Tosca Repository

Standard Authentication

Required Fields:

  • URL
  • Username
  • Password
    • Please be aware that the “Successfully connected” response from Viz on the Tool Connection screen does NOT guarantee that Viz will be able to connect to the Tosca Workstation if the requirements listed above are not met.

Note: As a general rule, Tosca Commander and Viz cannot be open and running at the same time, since both are using the same APIs. Therefore, to be able to synchronize with Tosca, you have to close your Tosca Commander workspace. However, a workaround is available:

  1. Prepare the database for multiuser mode by following instructions here.
  2. Create a new workspace and select your repository type under 'Common Repository' in 'Create New Workspace.'
  3. Create an additional workspace for your Viz instance. This time, ensure that you select 'Use existing Repository' under 'Common Repository' and select the Common Repository that you created in step 2. 
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  4. The workspace created in step 2 can be open while using Viz.

Tricentis Tosca Tool Connection Screen

 


 

Supported Artifacts

Supported Work Items

Supported Work Item Type

Applicable Repository Versions

Unique URL?

Defect

Supported versions including 9.2 and later

No accessible web URL. Connector uses unique REST URI for location.

Supported Containers

Containers that can be modeled as Flow Items

Applicable Repository Versions

Unique URL?

N/A

 

 

Containers used to define which artifacts are included in an Artifact Set

 

 

Workspaces

Any supported repository version:

N/A

 


 

Supported Field Types

Planview Viz supports configuring rule-based modeling (i.e., conditional modeling) using the field types shown below.

Note: If one field of a given type is supported, others that are also that type in theory should also work. However, sometimes there are instances in which this is not the case due to the repository. So, while we can claim support for fields at the type level, there is a chance that some specific fields of a given type will not function properly.

Standard Field Type

How is field type referenced in the repository?

Sample Repository Fields Supported

Particular Repository Fields NOT Supported

1checkicon.png String

String (Property)

Date

Name

Change Request State

Change Request Id

Aggregated Description

Comment

Log Info

 

1checkicon.png Single Select

 

Result

Creation Container

Workspace

Type

Container (Read Only)

 

1Not_allowed.svg.png Multi Select

 

 

 

1checkicon.png Boolean

 

Changes Allowed

Has Missing References