Katalon Studio is an extensive toolset for web and portable application robotization testing. This instrument incorporates a full bundle of amazing highlights that assistance defeat basic difficulties in web UI test robotization, for instance, spring up, iFrame, and hold up time.

Katalon's principle leeway is that it's anything but difficult to convey and has a more extensive arrangement of reconciliations contrasted with Selenium, the market head. Katalon has double scripting interfaces for clients with various programming aptitudes. This implies analyzers with restricted specialized learning can utilize a less difficult UI that doesn't require composing code.

Cons of utilizing Katalon Studio Absence of scripting dialects Not open source Documentation update slacks Execution issues

Katalon Studio has been a great addition to my workflow. It's provided much needed functionality and has saved me lots of time when it comes to testing. The learning curve wasn't so steep and I was able to write some useful tests right out of the box.

The beginner friendly aspect of this software makes it great for anyone to begin testing right away. Having the option of capturing browser actions without the need to necessarily having to write the script from scratch made it very straightforward to use. At the same time, having the option to easily customize the script makes it very flexible and helps get necessary testing done quickly.

The only issue I've ran into while using this software was some bugs when testing on certain browsers. At one point I had some issues when attempting to run a test on Safari due to some driver issues. There are also some small bugs when running tests on Internet Explorer with window sizing. There were some workarounds for these issues and I was still able to test on all browsers.

I was new to my company and I was on a new project. The tool selected by someone else wasn't going to be a fit (Cypress) we need a tool that could do proper E2E testing not a Unit test tool like Cypress. Katalon allowed me to catch up and to get the automation back on track quickly. I found it very easy to use as it was much like the commercial tools I have used for the last 18 years

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Object Recognition is a bit clumsy. It needs a spy that will give relative XPath for objects. Currently it gives a full Xpath which is unreliable.

It’s a really good tool we have been using tu automate many of our software screens and daily workflow. It has several limitations but overall is easy to use and handy

The software can be easily customized to our needs, it’s intuitive, flexible and user friendly even for those who don’t know much about code. The recording is a good option to complete tests if you don’t have a good API

It needs improve on handling generation of jars each time an API is written. It also needs better handling of errors sometimes it’s nit clear. The profiles approach conflicts sometimes when checking changes into a remote repository since many users can change them. Better organization on the test cases / test suites

We solved the business problem wherein the values appearing on screen in our scorecard where mismatched with the downloaded excel.

Was able to automate most of the manual testing work using Katalon studio. Thus saving time and efforts and putting those to use in more productive work.

It crashed many times without saving the changes I did.

It is FREE to use. earlier days testers used to develop frameworks using program language like Java, C sharp and etc. This use to take a huge effort and there was no standard in developing frameworks. because of inconsistency in the framework, the main focus of testers uses to go to maintain the framework rather use it productively. Katalon is completed filled the gap in the test automation world. And also, given much more powerful features accelerate test automation development and its usage. The simplicity of the tool. easy to learning. Productivity. knowledge base. It can integrate all CI and CD tools in the market.

Integration with Zephyr test management on Jira is missing. This is very much required as per Katalon test users. But not sure whey team have not come up with solutions for this. I hope they come up ASAP.

My search for a mobile automation test tool led me to katalon, i needed a tool that could help with stress test, ui test, fuctional test as well as regression test. I must say the UI feel with katalon was great coupled with simple user experience, with katalon it looked like all the features i needed to achieve mobile app test were all sited in one place. Seting up katalon on on mac for android testing wasn't stress at all, i just needed to read their documentation and their short clips directory videos to say the least katalon as a great community with very relevant questions and relatable asnwers. I have used katalon for mobile and app test only, maybe my next exploration will be to use it for api testing

The Record mobile app feature, that allows easy recording, and very effective to perform stress test on mobile apps

somethings still have to be updated/saved manually for every test e.g i have to always set "uninstallAfterClose to false" everytime i run my test

I used katalon studio for 3 years and its so amazing.I'm a selenium basic user to make an automate testing, one day i think traditional selenium so hard to implement and unstable when selenium was upgraded.When i meet katalon studio,its like bring me from the dark to light. I can explore my skill more,be more creative and think to create something new. Katalon support all my idea to develop complex automatic testing. Katalon make my vision more clearly about automated testing and how to implement with special project.it because every project has different needs when decided to build automated testing.

Easy to use and merge all needs automated testing in one environment.

its to heavy. i hope it will more light and more faster when run start at first time

There was a time when i was in a big black-hole wondering which tool would come to my aid as my job was to test various modules in the context of business intelligence. I spent time trying different tools but my search was worth it when i discovered that Katalon studio tool has most of the features that I can start using without having to learn too many technical concepts or go through tedious steps of installations.Now i recommend it to all my colleagues every time they complain about some things that are not working in our home born tools.

User friendly UI, support team's response and openness to suggestions, one tool for multiple tasks

It could be more dynamic in terms of recommending error / corrections

I was reducing regression testing time from days to hours.

How easy it is to get started and put it to real use not just some dummy project.

Updates that require browser updates also.

Build the regression suite for all the 25 applications we support. When there is any server/database upgrade we run the suite for all applications from cmd prompt which runs through windows batch one by one and sends the summary report

Recorder Functionality

Independent Project Structure - can access one project at once , reuse ability ofkeyworkds become less

I work in a company that provides various types of web services to the client around the globe. Delivering work ranging from APIs integration to a complete website.

Ability to re-use test cases, to group selectors, web APIs, scripts with full programming capabilities, the capability to run on various platforms and browsers, debug, ability to integrate with GitHub, trigger test via batch scripts, HTML reports

Not supported on Linux, slow to trigger test, no hightlight on web element interacted with.

Katalon for me has been the perfect choice for my organization. It has allowed me to implement an automation solution that co workers with no experience can pick up quickly. As the company focus expands into mobile I know Katalon will be the tool I can use as well.

The software is easily setup and implemented. It is great that I can automate Web, Mobile and API's all with in one tool set.

The forum responses from Katalon are very slow if there is a response at all.

Its easy to download (no installation needed) and use feature.

Takes time to load.

Easy to get onboarded and start of with automation of tests.

The ability to integrate with the latest & most generally used tools for deployments & development.

I have to keep check of the Chrome versions that the tool supports!

the recording feature is awsome and the test suite is also good keywords are easy to remember overall working is easy

the recording feature is awsome and the test suite is also good keywords are easy to remember overall working is easy

least i like the creation of new keywords

Able to complete the business cases very fast

1. Parallel Execution

1. Uses more System memory

We adopted the tool after I highly spoke of it to higher management as they trust me as our main testing tool on the current project I'm working on. Had a very small learning curve and create custom keywords and scripts to be reused and acting as lego blocks in many tests. Cucumber is documenting all our scenarios.

It allow to somebody with no or little coding knowledge to get started in test automation with its intuituous interface and built in keywords. Also, with all the integration with various platforms and technologies make it a very easy to integrate tool in the day to day work environment.

Some glitches still exist in some fields such as soap api calls where not all endpoints are loaded correctly and some improvemetns could be done in order to completely replace soap ui usage in my case. Also the cucumber integration doesn't seem to have all the solution's benefits working correctly such as tags and others that could be added. Finally the Database that is internal could allow to clone, copy, delete or manipulate data easily even the search is not there to make a query for instance.

This has been used by numerous members of our team to reduce tedious manual regression testing. The ease of use and interface are very appealing, and there is very little difficulty in setting up the first suite of tests.

Excellent interface, great support and tutorials, installation is easy.

Some elements are difficult to pick up in the automation process.

We have not yet integrated Katalon into our build processes but it has become an obligated step in each testing iteration. No version goes productive without first going through Katalon. This has definitely improved our general quality, and also our QA team now spends more time creating katalon cases than actually hand testing, which is more efficient overall. I would definitely recommend it, but I might add that you might want to start by using Katalon recorder first, before growing into the studio.

The best about Katalon is that test cases can be created easily using the visual interface (katalon recorder), but can later be made more powerful using the scripting tools. It's also great to be able to export them and reimport them easily, allowing our team to collaborate adding new test cases with each passing version. We haven't yet integrated katalon with Jenkins, but knowing that its possible is great for us.

It took a bit of learning at first, since we used other tools before, but once that was done it's relatively easy to use. The community of users is not that large, but its apparently greowing since users from selenyum are mostly migrating to katalon. We've had some performance issues with it, and some cross browser differences, however, this didn't happen often.

I like that is was easy to download/install. The tutorials were good in helping me set up my initial project and test cases. I was brand new to automated testing so speaking from experience, I'd say this is a good tool for people who are new to automated testing and have little scripting experience. The point and click functionality is great because then people who are more on the business side can help get test cases set up and then turn to the developers if they need further help.

It could have just been the application I was trying to automate, but it seemed like for most objects I had to go in an manually update the xpath. The xpath recorded didn't seem to work. I think this tool is pretty easy to use for basic test cases, but once you get into more complicated test cases it can get very cumbersome. I had good luck setting up the cases for my web application, and once they are set up the run with no problem. However, I had 0 luck setting up the mobile device testing. Again, it could have been the application itself, but there were a lot of extensions I needed to install in order to even get the device to plug in. Once I did, the point and click functionality did not seem as user friendly as the web application point and record functionality.

Now all my test scripts are built with this tool. I don't have to solely rely on Postman to test backend APIs or just Selenium Webdriver to test frontend web applications or Appium to automate mobile applications.

The tool can be used to test the following:

Since this tool is somewhat new in the market compared to Selenium Webdriver, hence, its at times difficult to find solutions if a user is stuck in a problem. However, the KS developers tries their level best to find the suitable solution for you as early as possible.

When I joined my current company there was no software automation, it was suggested that I head up the investigation and implementation of automated testing. I did my research and found out about Katalon studio. At first it was very intimidating but when I put my head down and really started using it I found out how powerful the software was.

There is not anything to dislike currently as I have only been using it for about 6 months now.

It was great. The tool is basically free to use. The sets of automations are well developed.

Testing web and mobile app is very much easy by this tool. The automation procedure is great. The UI is great. Test data management and recording of test generation are the features of Katalon I love the most.

The tool is not a open source and the worst thing I've come across that is works on groovy. I would like to seen more coding languages added to the software. I've also encountered some lag while using this platform on my laptop.

- The best part about Katalon Studio is its simplicity. A QA with only manual testing experience would also be able to automate with such ease using this software. - Its free of cost and is helpful for mobile, API and web automation. - Have record and play feature.

UI of the application can sometimes be a bit of a problem.

in my opinion the software is of quality, is continuously receiving update and allows many configuration and run test firefox, chrome, edge, ie. I would like it to allow to program tests with the javascript language

what I like the most is that it is free, allows you to run tests with the most famous browsers and allows you to execute different types of languages, in addition you can program without writing

I would like you to be able to use languages ​​like php and javascript and integrate with api to run automated tests

This tool is a huge benefit it my testing of my companies software product. It has a lot of capabilities that help me test our product in multiple ways.

What I like the most is how easy it is to use Katalon. The functionality of the product is simple and easy to use. Also, the documentation that Katalon has is really impressive and useful.

The integration of Katalon Analytics isn't the greatest. A lot of the times Katalon Analytics doesn't show all of the information from my test suite. Also, my test suite doesn't always show in Katalon Analytics or it takes a long time to update with my results.

It was my first software for automation of my tests. So it's a good tool for complete beginners. The test case writing process takes less time than in many other tools. I like the way you can switch between manual and script mode - from predefined options to the actual code

Updates for the software could be with errors when tests couldn't be executed. Or with changes like "to create a pdf report please install the add on". I don't like such changes when some of the functionalities suddenly stop working.

We had a major problem with maintenance our automation tests framework. We had too much projects and too low manpower. Then I started an research and found Katalon. First look over the available options out of the box were outstanding. It had screenshot capturing, screen recording and many other features ready to use. Without a single line of code. Deeper look just assured me that Katalon will be our firs choice tool. It is flexible and even if wide functionalities are not enough for you you have option to write id down and integrate to the Katalon with ease. I literally do not see why to write your own automation framework when Katalon is easy and free to use.

Configuração rápida

UX of application

Easy to setup Easy to use UI - Objecy Spy, Recorder, Keyword and Script view, debugging, Integration with GIT etc.., Easy to learn - Built in keywords, framework, simple external data integration, record and play back

Newer version of Katalon Studio has moved some of the free features to paid (ex. Jira integration)

We have managed to fill in the gaps that Postman has left wide open in being able to share reports with teammates, using BDD/Cucumber in API testing, and being able to integrate with Jira. To be able to produce anything similar with postman would require tons of custom Node.js which would be difficult to use for our less technical team members.

What I like about this software is the fact that I can perform API, Web UI, and Mobile Applications testing all in one suite. I like the fact that the software is based on Eclipse, Java, and Selenium, and comes with all the drivers ready to go. It makes life easier for me who have to deal with a lot of the more technical components, but allows others on our team, who aren't as technical, drag and drop my scripts using the UI provided. I like the fact that the software encourages the Page Object Model and also makes Cucumber much easier.

You guys are making improvements on your reporting tool, but it used to be a major headache. Other than that, no major headaches.

Since working on my current automation project, I've been able to log a number of defects and it has been reducing the tedious, repetitive work I do regularly as well as enhanced the quality of our releases. I look forward to learning more about this amazing tool and seeing what's to come.

I've been working with Katalon Studio for about 8 months now and have been very impressed with it's capabilities, rivaling other tools I've used that cost a boatload in annual license fees. The ability to test both API calls and UI fills a need for the projects we are working on. Continually updated and fantastic support forum. Easy to use in manual or scripted mode, I moved from manual tests to scripted quickly thanks to many great tutorials and thorough documentation!

The UI can be a smidge clunky at times and test suite organization and report output needs some enhancements. I am sure these areas are probably on their roadmap, however, and will be addressed in the coming year. They are very amenable to feedback.

We have to deploy software to numerous systems, numerous times per month. Katalon offers the flexibility to run some basic sanity checks to ensure our deployments were successful, without a ton of manual testing hours to verfiy.

Learning curve is relatively quick and easy to get going with your first few basic tests. There is also a lot of documentation out there if you get stuck on something.

The design is horrible. It feels like interacting with an app built in the early 2000s. BUT, it works well.

we needed a test automation tool which has functional test automation, API test automation and mobile test automation. Katalon and Selenium were close contenders and we picked Katalon as it provided almost all what we needed. we implemented it over 4 months of period for our 2000 pages application and overall our experience is good with it's abilities. Equipped with Cloud report tool "Katalon Analytics", it is a plus. Being freeware it brings a lot on your table.

Ease of Use and operate. With basic training any one can start creating test scenarios in feature files and automatically respective code gets generated.

Frequent updates and paid JIRA and other plugins

Katalon Studio is easy to use and it helped our testers to quickly learn the tool and efficiently use it to automate the test scripts. It has put both the technical and non-technical testers on the same playing field which resulted in development of thousands of test scripts in a short amount of time and standardize our tooling.

1. Non-technical testers can use it with the same ease as technical members.

1. Support more languages other than Groovy

This software was chosen by me because it's so simple and intuitive to use!

Difficult with dynamic id's and when we try to build a suite of tests the results are not the real ones. Example: 10 tests individually they pass when I try a build them all in a suite 80% of them fail. This is very boring.

my overall experience with Katalon Studio is definitely positive and i will continue to learn and promote this tool because it is very useful for any Automation developer to understand and implement this tool.

Easy to set up and configure. Easy to record steps either manually capturing the element/s or using the SpyWeb/recordWeb features.

Hard to understand the errors and how to fix them. Although there is the katalon online community to seek for any help, it is not easy to pose the issue across where one can totally understand the question and come up with solutions.

Katalon has been a great introduction to automation testing that we haven't been able to achieve to this point. It is simple enough to learn for those with and without coding experience. We have been able to create a whole suite of API tests through the various functionality which has been really helpful

I love the recording feature of the software that allows me to quickly create object repositories or just do a step by step of the website I test.

The documentation of Katalon could be more robust and descriptive. There are a couple things I've tried to do that I had to figure out on my own because the documentation wasn't clear

It's been really awesome for people on test automation teams. the coverage it provides with respect to the platforms is superb.

The pros of the application are without doubt the number of platforms that it covers and does it very very well.

Not a lot of cons to be honest, the learning curve was steep for people on the manual side to testing, however after some they did get adjusted to things and are regular users of the application.

Overall I have been using Katalon studio for more than an year, I have been impressed with the advancements they have made in their product, it has certainly been a more favorable tool for our organization.

It is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time. offers a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing etc.

the only con is that they release new version every 15 days, it becomes a problem to stick with one version as there are many bug fixes and new feature update.

We've so far had a great experience using Katalon. I'm very excited to introduce it to the company and hope we're able to fully utilize it and keep it around.

I really love how easy it is to create objects and reuse on multiple sites. The copy/paste/move up/move down options are super easy to use. This makes it easy to maintain our work and make it fun to consistently use.

Its very difficult to troubleshoot issues. We've started keeping very detailed documentation about which errors may occur and when. If it weren't for that, I'm not confident our QA team would be able to understand how to fix/get past whatever is happening. I would really like to see clearer notes as to why something would be causing an error.

I am using Katalon Studio for UI web automation testing and API testing and it's very stable and very powerful tool.

it an all in one solution and easy to use you can write your test scenario scripts easily and run it in no time it's really a very powerful testing solution.

None, all is good for me I didn't face any cons. till now

1. No need prior programming language hands on.

1. Any API related to Full screen capture of Web page is not introduced.

- Availability of tutorials

- Reporting for BDD tests should be improved. It should display more meaningful information about the steps performed in a readable way (BDD test looks actually more meaningful than a report - that is weird).

being allergic to super-coding, I find Katalon studio friendly to QAs and data encoders, but can also be flexible enough to support other extensions or code snippets from other libraries.

Overall, the experience with record-play-customize code-replay has is reminiscent of its more expensive counterpart/s. But overall it's better than the other automation tools i used so far. online help and resources are bountiful. Object repository, test collection, input data files are some of my favorite places to work around with. there are other features which i havent explored yet, like mobile and API automation.

There are certain customizations that i need with the software which are not yet supported (like full-page web screenshot and data file output), so our team is left to the care of old-school programming gurus on the web. the features that i miss is not a deal-breaker though, work arounds are fine by me for now.

API Automation - It is good

Well organized and easy to use. For APIs its straight forward

Mobile UI automation is quite tough to setup. Android automation, once we make a script using the a particular mobile using the recorder, we were not able to use it on another model phone. When recording, the ids which the Katalon Studio is creating were changing for the next phone and hence it is not recognizing the on other phones. On the Iphone UI automation, most of the Iphones are not getting recognized. We spent 2 months on doing research and it is pretty inconsistent. Finally we moved just to Appium and manually create the scripts which is the reliable solution from years.

Despite I've had to deal with many issues using Katalon Studio, I think it is a great tool with a lot of potentials that need to mature. That's why I bet for Katalon Studio instead of other tools like ReadyAPI.

1- that you can use cucumber scripts along with groovy for automating test cases

1- you can not open more than one project at a time

We had very little test automation in place, and actually was using as an intern till the "purchased" product was up to speed. It surpassed my expectations the more I used it. Very reliable, easy to maintain and update. Was able to build out a decent library of smaller reusable modules, that have greatly decreased the time it takes to create new testcases. It took the frustration out of tool itself, making it enjoyable to work in.

Very fast to get up and running. Fits a variety level of users, flexible enough to allow advanced users to pretty much setup how they please at the same time enough of all the base needs for the new user. With it being free product, they update it regularly and are very attentive to user requests. Their application is actually fun to use. The setup and options are intuitive. Not hard to figure out how to do and implement even more complex, complicated operations with custom code. Very portable. The install being as isolated from the code, can easily install on another machine, and open project and be running tests, no special build, or install requirements to do this as I've seen in other tools.

Not a fan of the Object Repository handling, doesn't do well of detecting dupes, can get quick messy if user of the object spy. The code repository integration is basic, the interface to it not very robust. Its scripting language is Groovy, which is not as popular as others.

Overall the tool has many good functions and capabilities. Pros, outweigh cons in a major way.

Somewhat easy to get started (see cons), Git integration, beginner and expert modes. Ability to export and continue with other IDEs if desired to go outside of the tool (not locked in to it forever).

A little cumbersome to setup all the needed plugins. Until everything is configured just right, you will run in to errors here and there that take time to troubleshoot. Test case navigation/folder structure could use a few more options and customization capabilities to be able to sort things better. Automatic centralized location for code and test case storage (similar to ALM) would be great. Having to commit and pull code each time from different stations is cumbersome. To schedule remote execution you must make sure the machine pulled latest code which is an issue if execution and development PCs are different.

Great, Katalon is a very powerful and flexible testing product, that I am able to use for most of my API's regardless of the language or technology I use.

I really like that Katalon is both similar to using Selenium and Quick Test pro. This is a fantastic marriage of the best features those products offered separately. It is also great to be able to save objects into a reusable repository and to be able to save request/responses and global variables. It makes it easier than trying to maintain request in files on your system. The use of Groovy, similar to QTP using VBScript, makes it easy to run tests in a more programmatical manner, allowing for loops and conditionals. Overall I find it extremely useful and I have recommended it to and prepared a training video for everyone on my team

One thing that Selenium had handled well was the conversion of HTML recorded tests to JUnit specifically which is something that seems absent from Katalon, and the conversion between the Browser Plugin recording and the tests created in the IDE seem to be incompatible. Memory does seem to be an issue, as I have trouble running Katalon along with other Java-based IDEs. I have also had trouble recording objects in the IDE, where certain form objects (e.g. select/combo boxes) use the contents as the default name, and in my case, caused the object name to exceed the character limit. forcing me to rename all my objects and keep track of what I had named them, which was a bit tedious. Also, the integration with Jenkins seems confusing.

Pros: It's packed with features, which comes in handy when you want to perform many tasks with one single tool.

It's packed with features, which comes in handy when you want to perform many tasks with one single tool.

The UI is a bit clunky, not very intuitive, and I guess the word is "overpopulated". There are many options, buttons, dropdowns, popups, which can be confusing.

Monotonous movement on the internet. I do the exact same moves online everyday, which makes them automatable.

I love the fact that I can do web scraping without having to write a million lines of code. I can just get on Katalon and do what I have to do. Customer service is great. They get to my questions right away when I write them on the forum which really helps. Overall great open source product and I'd recommend it to anybody.

Never really got a good answer on how to handle dynamic ID's. When the ID is static and stays the same, the code remains the same. But when I try to handle dynamic ID's, it will only remember the static one I input. I believe this is more of a user error than anything, but that's one answer that I never got.

Well with katalon. really loved it

1. Integrations with GIT, Bitbucket, Slack

1. Better to have options to connect multiple databases with windows auth mode

Amazing tool with friendly UI making it easier for anyone to use it with less background of coding. Also very versatile that can be used for web, mobile and Api. Intuitive results which helps in viewing the result of testing easily

I used this product for automating the testing of our website. It was very easy to use as people who did not have a lot of coding experience could also use it easily. Its a one stop shop for web mobile and api which is very useful for companies who use all three platforms

More languages to be supported. I hate the fact that we are restricted to java groovy

Katalon Studio has been instrumental in lowering the barrier of entry for our people who are just learning test automation. It has enabled rapid creation of automation to implement continuous testing in our end to end functional testing efforts.

We still needed to implement some standard ways of how we save, write and organize our test suites. Katalon could provide some guidelines or templates to help in this effort.

Overall experience is 9/10.

1-Less configuration.

Minimal or zero angular support

Katalon is very user-friendly as we used it to automate end-to-end-tests. I way fascinated how good it works when I first tried it and build-up a complete test environment for a web application in a very short time. We also integrated it in our CI/CD structure (GitLab) with ease, as Katalon is also dockerized as image available. Generelly speaking: One of the best test automation tool out there currently. But as we needed a solution for distributed testing, we switched from katalon to robot framework. We nevertheless believe, that katalon has a lot of potential to be the next big thing in test automation.

- As the title suggests, Katalon is very easy-to-use. The UI is very intuitive to use and therefor it doesn't take much time to get started. - Katalon comes with a lot of built-in features like a test recorder, that saves your interaction with a given UI-Interface and creates a test case out of it or a very nice way to save GUI elements and to organize test data via built-in databases. - Katalon is also very easy to use by non-programmers and therefor also a powerful tool for manual testers, to automate repetitive and boring tests. Nevertheless the quality of ones katalon repository will be much higher, when a experienced coder is working with it - but I would even consider this as "criticism", as other tools lack of user-friendly-interface for non-coders completely. - Katalon get's updated frequently and therefor grows in it's features - they just enabled the feature to share custom keywords, which is amazing!

- It's fairly young and therefor lacks of features like distributed testing (it still gets a lot of updates). - I had some performance issues with 4K monitors - the tree that is generated when executing a test takes a lot of performance. - The GUI repository is file based -> That means it will throw errors, if the file structure gets too long...

Katalon Studio is a great way to introduce or advance automated testing in your organization. Tools and tutorials can get the business user up and running quickly with record and playback capability. For developers, Java/Groovy script can be used to quickly put together sophisticated tests.

Object capturing can still be problematic. To efficiently use the tool, it helps to have solid grasp of how to target objects in the DOM with either via xpath or css attributes. This can present challenges for the business user occasionally.

We are using Katalon Studio for GUI automation. The tests run quickly, and are heavily customizable past Katalon's own Web UI functions.

Katalon is easily one of the best open source software tools for GUI automation testing. Its intuitive interface requires a minimal learning curve and with the official documentation online, someone with zero testing/coding experience can write a comprehensive test. Test suites and collections allow enterprise level testing by allowing users to run numerous tests in series or parallel in different browser configurations.

Katalon is an excellent software, but it is not without its bugs. For convenience I will list them:

I had used the standalone Appium for a while in my free time. When I started a project that required mobile app automation, I wanted to produce automated tests as quickly as possible. I discovered Katalon and was able to setup numerous automated tests within months, complete with logging. I appreciate that I didn't have to write a lot from scratch, and I was able to focus more on testing.

Full IDE with; CSS/mobile element inspection, debugging tools, and built-in logging for tests.

The user interface feels slow at times.

Best Testing Tool in Market

Since its built on Top of Selenium working on Katalon becomes way too easy for a new user as well. On the other side if you have worked on Selenium and Java. You can master it in few days. And Never Forget the Spy web and record web button helps you to find such complex x-path which would be a tough task doing it manually. And testing of API , and UI is an easy task like never before.

1. Integrate it with Chro path for better xpaths.

Katalon studio is our 1st test automation tool.Really great find helping to develop automated test cases faster. We started automating most of our projects using katalon studio.

Ease of use. Easier for manual testers as well as automation testers/developers.

Still lot of room for improve Documentation should improve Copying variable across call test cases is bit difficult and time consuming

I have been using it for 2 years. It is great to test both my web and mobile projects in the same environment and support with powerful reports. Otherwise, sending the test results to your email address after the test is completed is amazing in reaching each test step on Katalon Analysis Beta. With the Recoder feature, recording and executing the tests provides great convenience especially for regression tests. The interface is very useful. The program is constantly alive and in development. New versions and improvements are available. Automating mobile testing is easy with the Katalon. In addition to the ready-made keywords in your structure, you can define custom keywords and improve your test capacity. I don't think you can find a tool that's free and with these features, it's a great Katalon!

With advanced technology, high-quality applications are now inevitable. Manual testing of applications also slows down this rapid process. Considering the different factors such as slowness as well as multi-platform support, cross-browser, responsive design and more, an application's manual test may leave you with unexpected complications and extra efforts.

I don't think it is very useful for web service and API testing.

I started using Katalon Studio a year ago and it serves the automation

Every automation tool has some drawbacks, but I managed to nd workarounds for each

- I use it for the system testing, and it suit for all my needs like how I build my own testing framework in eclipse. I started using it since 2018 Jan and I can see the software keep improving the feature and functionality. As my company need to use Jenkins for the build test and this tool fit for my requirement otherwise if I build my own framework will take me longer time only can start the automation testing.

- The record& playback feature help those QA who doesn't have programming language also can do automation testing.

- A lot of issue found when executed the test in command prompt, because I use Jenkins to trigger the test

We have a challenge to start over the automation immediately and there aren't any QA's who has much knowledge about it. In that case being a QA Developer I suggested on using Katalon studio to save time on setting up the framework from scratch. Having this tool handy and easy to use it doesn't take much time for our manual testers to write scripts using manual mode. I personally like the tool as it allows us to create custom keywords though the tool provides many pre-defined methods there is a requirement to create custom keywords as the application demands like retrieving the links from emails, verfying pdfs. Today we have had ample number of test cases developed using Katalon Studio. And we are further hoping to start working on API automation too using Katalon.

Powerful tool but easy to use and simple to deploy

Paid support

Katalon Studio being a very robust tool has provided a new dimension to my automation testing needs.

It is very user friendly and has loads of functionalities that makes automation testing look so easy and simple.

I would prefer that they have some more extensibility for desktop app like java apps, spring etc

Katalon is good tool for automation testing and easy to learn. It have good feature of record and play back which avoids script for the tester.

Katalon have good feature of record and play back which avoids script for the tester.

Windows testing is not available in Katalon.

I used appium before I know katalon. I think katalon is easier compared with appium. Especially for verify the element displayed or not. In Katalon, we have special method to verify element not exist. Katalon is more user friendly and easier to manage the test case.

It is convenient and integrated with Selenium and Appium. It almost has all the features what Sele/App have. Besides, it has its own defined methods which can be used very efficiently to do the testing work. For example, which you want to scroll to a certain text, all you need to do is use scrollToText() without handling the XY coordinate. I truly thank Katalon for making my work easier!

I think one feature I am not satisfied is handling the webview in mobile apps. I know there is a method in Katalon which allow us to switch from native apps to webview. But it seems like it does not work for me. When I post the question in forum, I did not get the solution neither. Currently I am working on testing hybrid apps with webview in it. I hope one day you can fix this.

Great & excellent experience. Excited to leverage the tool's features anytime!!!

Ease of Use - This is one of the most reason I like this tool as it makes everyone as automation engineers that includes manual testers and subject matter experts

Integrations with performance test automation. Though it is a different area but needs to think on how can a single test case be used for various purpose that includes performance testing tool

I'm extremely happy using this software. Since I'm a beginner the tutorials and documentation online have been so good to help me learn. I can see all the options I can do in the future for my tests and how fast I can create my basic tests is quite helpful.

I liked that there are many nice tutorials available online that got me running with using the software. Not being a power user, it was very nice to be able to start with a recorder for my first tests and then have the ability to add code as needed.

The one thing I found a bit frustrating was that when I updated to a new version of the software, some tests stopped running. I'm not sure what was the reason for this, but once I went back to the older version all was fine. So, in the world of automated testing, it was a bit hard to realize the issue was with the new version and not with my tests.

It is an amazing platform for creating automated test scripts saving a lot of time and money

Switching between creating scripts or just design the test flow which then converts itself into scripts is an amazing feature. This also helps people in the team who are not familiar with creating scripts to understand scripting

Sometimes there is an inconsistency between different Operating Systems and browsers. Test cases do fail randomly.

I use Katalon to write test script for Salesforce.com platform such as creation of Leads, Plans, Accounts, Signup Process that has a shopping cart and a billing process, Opportunities, e.t.c. The experience with the tool so far has been pleasant. Easy to use and I love how the team is keeping up with new update and the improvements they make to the tool. I highly recommend this tool.

I have been using Katalon Studio for almost 6 months now. I have been evaluating the product to see how it can help us in out Test Automation. I love the simplicity of Katalon Studio but at the same time it is a very powerful tool. I love how the project is organized into different meaningful folders. Also, I love how you can switch from manual mode to script mode to further expand the test scripts.

One thing that I don't like about Katalon Studio is its restrictiveness to writing scripts using Groovy and Java. I wish the team could expand further and allow other languages such as Python and C#.

We're trying to grown a test automation department, from a non-technical manual QA team. Katalon Studio is allowing our manual testers to contribute to the automation effort, while allowing automation testers to utilise their Java and Webdriver skills.

Recorder and Playback for beginners, Keyword Driven for intermediates, or Java/Selenium Webdriver for advanced usage.

Growing community, but still in its infancy

Free tool.

In built framework, no need to create your own.

No much community support. Product still evolving. Paid support is expensive Newer version and new feature along with bug fixes are frequent.