Katalon Studio helps my company because it has made our automation process and automation of test cases faster. Earlier, when my company was using open-source tools like Selenium, we were able to manage around three to four test cases per day. With Katalon Studio's use in some projects, my company manages around ten cases per day, fastening our processes.
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Katalon Platform can be used to automating tests for web, mobile, or desktop with ease.
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use to get up and running quickly. Capable of great data-driven testing and limitless potential to get you through the complicated testing scenarios.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have not found the auto-heal functionality to be very useful. The beauty is that it can also be disabled.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Regression testing for many customers. Complex testing neccessary to fit the user experience.
Great time saver
What do you like best about the product?
Katalon greatly reduces the the amount of time creating and maintaining test cases using recording and creation of test objects
What do you dislike about the product?
We have no issues with katalon: our team enjoy using the tool
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Katalon is allowing us to quickly create automation tests so we can reduce the amount of manual testing required
An install tool useful to fasten automation of test cases
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
In Katalon Studio, the record and play feature is valuable as it has reduced the need for my company to do coding and scripting. Katalon Studio serves as a tool meant to make everything codeless, so my company does not have to write too much code, something we like about Katalon Studio as it makes our process faster. Another valuable feature of Katalon Studio is its integration with various other project management and test management tools, like Azure DevOps, TestRail, Jira, etc. In general, integration is also a good feature of Katalon Studio.
What needs improvement?
Speaking of the improvement required in Katalon Studio, I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation. For iOS apps, in my company, we struggle a lot since we set it all up on Mac, an area that can be improved. If Katalon Studio allows for more integrations with other test management and project management tools, it would be great since, right now, its integration capabilities are very limited.
For how long have I used the solution?
If I talk about the free version of Katalon Studio, my company has been using it for a few years. My company has been using Katalon Studio's paid version for less than a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Katalon Studio as a product has been scaling up on a day-to-day basis. Whenever I speak to the support team of Katalon Studio, I learn that some new features will be included in the product. It is a scalable product. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Considering Katalon Studio's paid and free versions, ten people in my company use the product.
My company plans to increase the use of Katalon Studio in our environment, and we are also trying to enter into a partnership program with Katalon so that my company receives more offerings from the product side. For now, my company has purchased Katalon Studio to use on a project-to-project basis.
How are customer service and support?
The solution's technical support is very good. I rate the technical support a nine out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The product's initial setup is not at all difficult.
For Katalon Studio's deployment, you can easily just download the ZIP file and install it on your system, and it's all set to go. Nowadays, there is an EXE file, which you download and double-click on to install it on your system, making it very easy to install and set up. Probably, the setup phase of the tool with integrations may take some time, but it is very easy to use. There is a beautiful UI and UX that Katalon Studio provides its users. With Katalon Studio, you can easily just provide the URL of your project management or test management tool, and then you can verify it, link it, and then you can do one-to-one mapping of your test cases as well.
I rate the normal setup phase of Katalon Studio a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy. For iOS specifically, Katalon Studio's setup phase was difficult.
The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.
Just one person can deploy the solution in a couple of hours.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Price-wise, Katalon Studio is a costly product. Considering what the solution provides its users with, I can say that price-wise, Katalon Studio is an okay product.
What other advice do I have?
Those planning to use Katalon Studio need to identify their purpose for the tool. It is pretty easy to use if someone wants to use Katalon Studio for web and API testing and maybe for use cases concerning just mobile phones or Android. For iOS, Katalon Studio's users might face challenges. It takes a lot of time to set it up, and you will need Mac or Apple to specifically set it up, and then other things, like Mac Apple ID, etc, along with some linkage with Katalon WebDriver. Currently, iOS is something that could be a challenge, but otherwise, for the rest of the things, Katalon Studio is pretty easy to use.
I rate the overall tool an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Easy to Adapt, very little learning curve with great automation potentials
What do you like best about the product?
Katalon has very small learning curv which allows manual tester to do the automation testing. Being a manger it is always difficult to manage Automation and Manula tester separatly, Katalon allows tester to become crossfunctional and work as functional and automation tester simultaniously. Katalon supports UI, API, and Mobile testing under same roof which reducese the hassle of handling differnt tools for differnt testing time. CI/CD Is another fearute(paid version) which helps to integrate your test is various cloud hosting providers in the market
Also, it has very good community support for free version and Customer support for paid vesrion
Also, it has very good community support for free version and Customer support for paid vesrion
What do you dislike about the product?
Downside of Katalon is, you have to pay for license if you need to do CI/CD integration, Visual testing, Unlimited Analytical results on TestOps (plugin to show execution result)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Testers became cross-functional, speedup the Automation process and minimum time for test script maintenance.
My automation scripting using Katalon Platform!
What do you like best about the product?
Combining Selenium, JavaScripts, Groovy, and has a great report system
What do you dislike about the product?
Some missing Integration like AWS Codecommit
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has Framework ready to work, and there is no time wasting, updating your basic scripts, such as WebDriver,.....
The best automation tool for automation testers which also support low code no code.
What do you like best about the product?
The great thing about the Katalon platform is its wide range of features and it is so easy to learn. and it also supports CI/CD tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are only accessible in paid version.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Katalon supports all types of testing like web, mobile, API, and Desktop so Katalon is an all-in-one package to work with.
and because of active participants and a big community, getting help about any issue is so quick.
and because of active participants and a big community, getting help about any issue is so quick.
Katalon Studio in my Automation Testing Journey
What do you like best about the product?
I started my career as an automation Tester. Most organizations prefer to use Open-source test automation tools for their testing needs and to reduce the cost to the company and prefer to use selenium with Eclipse. I worked in the same for 3.5 years and when I joined my current organization they already implemented Katalon Studio in 2020 and Katalon Studio was a free tool for testing. My first hands-on experience at Katalon studio was exciting In Eclipse we used to write reusable methods and save them to be used for upcoming projects we need to maintain them in order to reuse them. katalon simplifies that by providing those Keywords that reduce our time and effort by 25% and for reporting we used to design our test scripts in a way to capture the application Snapshot on each step when there is a failure in test katalon in its project settings and added the feature to capture the snapshots of the failures to this reduced another 25% of our time and effort and we have Record and Object spy future and frame handling feature etc.. in Katalon studio this eliminates the half of our effort in maintaining and allows us to concentrate in designing effective test automation
What do you dislike about the product?
A separate license for the Products. It will be great if we get a bundled katalon package
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Katalon solved the
implementation
Maintenance
Organizing Tests
Reporting
Test Ops
Parallel Execution
Cloud Execution
Parallel Cloud Execution
Parallel Mobile Cloud Execution
Cloud Tunnelling to execute private network-based Application
implementation
Maintenance
Organizing Tests
Reporting
Test Ops
Parallel Execution
Cloud Execution
Parallel Cloud Execution
Parallel Mobile Cloud Execution
Cloud Tunnelling to execute private network-based Application
Though an expensive and complex tool, its setup phase is easy
What is our primary use case?
I use Katalon Studio to check my applications.
What needs improvement?
Katalon Studio is an expensive tool. The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have experience with Katalon Studio for around a month.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I don't know about the product's stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Though I know about Katalon Studio's scalability, I can't comment much since I have not used the tool much.
I am the only person who was involved in the use of Katalon Studio in my company.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't interacted with the product's technical support team.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I haven't used any other products in the past.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy. The initial setup of TestProject was easier than Katalon Studio's setup phase.
Understanding Katalon Studio and deploying the tool takes half an hour.
For Katalon Studio's deployment to happen, you need to download an EXE file for installation, after which you need to open the application and check whether it is a product compatible with your IT environment. After following the aforementioned steps in my company during the solution's deployment phase, we realized that Katalon Studio was not the specific tool we wanted, causing us to consider TestProject.
The solution is deployed on the cloud.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Katalon Studio is an expensive tool.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I recommended Selenium to my company. I have a bit of coding experience. After using TestProject, I had suggested my company consider using Selenium. My company plans to use Selenium, where we can write codes specifically to record scripts and our applications.
What other advice do I have?
In my experience, Katalon Studio is a complex tool. People from a non-coding background might find Katalon Studio a bit hard to understand. After using Katalon Studio for a month in our company, we realized that it was not the most appropriate tool for us, so we switched to TestProject.
I recommend those who plan to use Katalon Studio consider the other tools that are available in the market.
I rate the overall product a five out of ten.
Highly scalable automation process with impressive stability
What is our primary use case?
My use cases were focused on the fintech industry.
How has it helped my organization?
It enabled us to automate numerous tests that were previously done manually.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities. It also allows integration with other solutions such as Jira and Slack.
What needs improvement?
The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used it for one year and a half.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a very stable solution. I would rate it nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate its scalability nine out of ten.
What was our ROI?
It saved us a lot of time, so we were really satisfied with it.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is good. It is the market average.
What other advice do I have?
I am highly satisfied with Katalon Studio and would recommend it to others. I would rate it nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Best tool for Non-coder Testers, easy to use
What do you like best about the product?
Katalon tool is really east tool to testers who come from non technical background. Easy way to build test scripts in many forms like BDD driven test case framework, TDD test driven framework. Also we have many platforms like cross browser and cross platform testing capabilities. AI use in tool it seems the new era to me in automation testing tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
I too wish it should support more language like java, javascript, python as of now we are using only groovy scripting which is sometimes seems to be hard to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Katalon platform is easy as compare to other code based automations like cypress, playwtight. It helped us to automatically update locators in it and also integration with browser stack.
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