# Install touca with Homebrew

Open source tool for regression testing complex software workflows. Version 1.8.7 via Homebrew; verified 2026-05-14.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:touca
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install touca
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:touca
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.8.7
- **Source summary:** Open source tool for regression testing complex software workflows
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/trytouca/trytouca/tree/main/sdk/python>
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-14T11:39:52-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- touca (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.8.7
## Project history and usage

Touca is an open-source regression-testing system for complex workflows. Its README describes a server, CLI, SDKs, and a comparison model that captures behavior and performance data, then compares new runs against a previous trusted baseline.

### Project history

The current monorepo combines the Touca server, web application, SDKs, examples, and deployment material. GitHub Releases show Touca Server releases in the 1.x and 2.x lines, with v1.5.0 published in 2022 and v2.0.0 listed by the repository as a later server release.

### Adoption history

Touca's README presents two adoption paths: self-hosting Touca Server with Docker Compose through the CLI, or using Touca Cloud. Homebrew packaging makes the CLI/server bootstrap workflow available to macOS developers as `brew install touca` followed by `touca server install`.

### How it is used

The package is used by writing workflow tests with Touca SDKs, capturing values and runtime for named test cases, and letting Touca compare those observations against a baseline instead of hard-coding every expected value.

### Why package nerds care

In the package-manager niche, Touca matters as a testing workflow that installs like a CLI but reaches into a larger local or hosted service. Its Homebrew formula gives developers a quick path from package install to a self-hosted regression-testing server.

### Timeline

- 2022: GitHub Releases API lists Touca Server v1.5.0.
- 2023: Repository release list shows Touca Server v2.0.0.
- Current README: Documents Homebrew install and CLI-driven self-hosting.

### Related projects

- The README names SDKs for Python, C++, Java, and JavaScript, reflecting Touca's role as a multi-language regression-testing service rather than a Python-only tool.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/trytouca/trytouca/releases>
- <https://github.com/trytouca/trytouca#readme>
- <https://touca.io/docs>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/touca.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/touca.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph