Katalon Studio Reviews

I am automating my current project with web application manual testing.

It's a requirement gathering application and has lots of workflows for the user.

Manual testing requires a lot of manual processes and time to complete the test cycle. With the help of Katalon, the process is running more smoothly and is less time-consuming.

Regression test suit saves lots of time to complete the whole testing with inbuilt reports in PDF format.

The Keyword feature is very good to use in your test cases. 

There are lots of inbuilt Keyword features already there to use, and one can write their own for use in respective test cases.

Less Java knowledge is required to write a keyword.

This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation.

My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version.

The support system should be improved in many areas such as Katalon Studio forums and the Katalon community page, where developer responses take a lot of time to reply to user questions.

Actually support response time is more than expected.

The stability is great.

The scalability of this solution is good.

Technical support for this solution is ok, but it could be improve.

I used Selenium, but Katalon is much more user-friendly.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward.

Dont know about that

NA

It is freeware software, so start using it.

I did not evaluate other options.

Great tool to start automation, easy to learn and doing.

The functionality of the data is very good. You can upload and disperse data using the solution. The reporting is excellent as well.

The browsing is messy. The solution tends to rush the tests on multiple processes. That doesn't work in most cases. They need to write a different script for the same test case on the cloud and another script to run the test on Firefox, for example.

Also, in terms of reporting, in the documentation, it's mentioned that Katalon takes screenshots if the test case fails. But not on all test cases. I need to take screenshots manually.

Often, running parallel test cases at the same time doesn't work. If it launches the first test case and it tries to launch the second test case at the same time, for example, the first test case will finish but the second will not stop. A lot of people are talking about this issue on the forums.

The application is prone to freezing when it loads.

Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation.

In general, the solution is stable.

For one machine it's good and easy to use. With this solution, you want to limit yourself to small tests.

Technical support isn't very good. I've had problems where I couldn't find answers within the community. I've never used the ticket support system, although they do have one. I've mostly relied on the community to source answers.

We previously used Selenium HQ.

The initial setup was a local setup; I simply downloaded it from the website.

I implemented the solution myself.

The tool is free to use.

We are using the cloud deployment model.

I would recommend the tool. For a free solution, it's very good.

I would rate the solution eight out of ten.

We use this solution for functional testing on some backends, APIs, the ServiceNow GUI, and other web GUIs. 

We have it running on a few machines, in-house. Each developer downloads it to their machine, and we also have it running on a test server. 

This solution is written in Groovy, which means that we can write Groovy scripts that work with it. We can write code in Java and it is easy to link to other JARs that we find on the internet, which is very handy.

From a user's perspective, this solution is better than Micro Focus UFT.

The documentation for this solution could be improved. However, it is a freeware, and the documentation is still better than that of UFT.

At the moment, this solution only works for web-based products. It's sort of like a Selenium wrapper, which is quite well done.

The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it. Instead, I just go and look at the objects in the HTML code, in Chrome for example. A more user-friendly Object Spy would be an improvement.

I would like to see the extension to other GUIs such as Windows and SAP.

The stability of this solution is good and improving.

This product is installed on your own client, and it runs fine there. Scalability is not really an issue. There are two of us using this solution at the moment, and we plan on maybe going up to three or four. There is only a certain amount of testing and automation required for our project.

Technical support for this solution is mainly through forums, and the forums are quite good. 

We are trying to get away from Micro Focus products because they're extremely expensive. For functional testing, we're migrating to Katalon Studio, for example. 

In the organization as a whole, people are using UFT from Micro Focus, and they are paying a lot of money for it. From the perspective of the user, I would say that this solution is better than UFT, and would encourage people to migrate from UFT to Katalon.

Personally, I have also used Rational Functional Tester, Tricentis Tosca, and Ranorex.

Tosca has a very good analysis, but if you're working with complex web GUIs, such as Angular for example, then Tosca is a pain in the neck. Tosca is more for test analysis.

Ranorex is a good product and it is more flexible. I believe that it can handle Windows GUIs, which Katalon cannot do at the moment. However, Katalon is free, and they are also implementing Winium if we should have the need for Windows GUIs.

The initial setup is straightforward. You just download a ZIP file, copy the contents of it into a directory, and you're ready to go. It is a bit like installing Eclipse. The deployment is quick.

This product is freeware, so there is no charge for using it.

There is a paid service available that offers a cloud database where you can store your test cases, pull your test executions, get reports, etc. We're not currently using this service so I cannot comment on it.

I was recently tasked with looking at different testing tools, and I evaluated several including Katalon. Once I tried it, I liked it, and so far we've been happy with it.

My advice for anybody who is considering this project to have some familiarity with Groovy and Java. If you don't like coding then it will not be the product for you. Otherwise, in our experience, it's a good product. It is well thought through and continues to improve.

This solution semi-automatically updates to the latest version, so it is always up to date.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I made functional scripts with Katalon Studio integrated with GitLab for another company. For now, I need to know about other tools in order to make functional tests for apps. 

Katalon Studio is easy to install and to learn for other technical people who work in quality assurance and don't work in developing software for a long time. In the other company, they always use Katalon to build the principal test of the business that they need to run when there are changes. 

Easy to learn, I don't need to have any expertise in software development. This tool has a custom chat in the IDE, a good tutorial, and I can always update the solution. I like to work with Gherkin language, and I think that I can have results very soon with Selenium. On the other hand, in the same framework, I can work with web applications, mobile applications or web services, and I can record a test in one browser and run it in another browser.

I would like if this tool can work without any problems for React Native.

We have used this tool to automate the regression test suite for our testing environment. In the coming future, we are willing to do the same in staging and production environments.

It definitely improved the organization in terms of time. We are now performing automated testing in 15 minutes, which were previously taking a long time when doing it manually.

We liked the built-in framework. 

Also, I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page.

Katalon Studio should improve on its supported platforms. It should start working on Silverlight automation as well.

We use Katalon for automating our website. The environment that we use it in is an website build in Node.js.

Previously, we had no automation solution for the web. Therefore, this application has helped a lot in automating the web.

The best feature is the split up between test cases and the test object. This allows us to easily change an error.

Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution.

None whatsoever.

None whatsoever.

I did not have a previous solution.

There is no cost for setup or licensing.

I did not evaluate other options.

My advice is when you need a solution for a web automation tool, then use this one.

I use it for website end-to-end automation and continuous testing via integration on the VSTS CI pipeline. The tool is fully integrated in our tool process.

It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites. A great tool for a non-technical tester to learn automated testing. Also, it is great for a technical tester, because it allows great customization.

Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally).

Object Spy is brittle. When I try to capture objects, I have to proceed multiple times before it works.

1. Katalon Studio provides the team much flexibility to adapt to various situations to address a problem appropriately. There are certain test cases that can only be tested manually, but Katalon allows the team to automate as many test cases as possible.
2. The “Debug from here” feature reduces the debugging time considerably.
3. It produces detailed and useful logs, helping the team to detect a defect’s root causes easily.
4. It scales well, supporting the execution of large test suites.
5. It can be used to verify various issues, ranging from minor errors like typos to performance and stability problems of the system.

Before using Katalon Studio, we spent weeks to verify all test cases manually for every major build. Now, we need only several days to fully perform regression testing, reducing the time to market greatly.

While the web testing is great, we expect more from the API testing.

More than six months.

No. It's very easy to deploy.

Rarely.

Not yet.

They provide very good customer service.

Excellent, since they promptly respond to our requests.

Robot Framework. However, it required more technical involvement, so the dev team needed to join and spent time setting up before our QA could join.

In-house.

After several years using Katalon Studio, the team now already automates more than 20% of the test cases, saving much of the verification time as well as exceeding the target set when starting the test automation effort.

The tool has been completely free until now.

TestComplete and UFT. They're all costly.