Katalon Studio Pricing

I like it because It's % Free tool and It's very easy to use with an excellent user interface. It helped me to test some Automation tasks using an Excel spreadsheet and I find it very useful especially the record option because I don't need to code anything I just need to click record and start to do my task from A to Z and after this, I will just put everything into a Loop and all my tasks are fully...

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They can add more features and integrate with other testing and automation tools because this will help in saving a lot of time. They can improve their Recorder tool and they can add more Browsers too.

I started using Katalon Studio a year ago and it serves the automation needs for the applications I use at my workplace. It’s free of cost which is a huge bonus, easy to automate and user friendly. To start with it’s very simple to create a record and playback script which can be edited using a manual and script mode with lots of inbuilt keywords to perform validations. My basic knowledge on Java enabled...

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Every automation tool has some drawbacks, but I managed to nd workarounds for each stoppers. Since Katalon studio is a tool that is still developing, I expect it will be more powerful in near future, supporting more functions and needs of the user.

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. The experience was great working on Katalon studio. The frequent updates of the software, the added enhancements every now and then are perfect. Quicker responses is what one can expect. Coming to the tool, its a great tool to work with. To sum up its a great tool which we can employ without any cost to pay for.

It crashed many times without saving the changes I did. Katalon community can be improved. I strongly felt that it should have a revamped User Experience, in terms of color schemes, ease of use and more shortcut keys to be included. Coming to the technical functionalities in the tool, sometimes while after including certain files from a particular folder, it doesn't appear there directly. We have to refresh the tool. It would be great if the tool had some auto-refresh feature. Sometimes while saving an Object Repository file, even if I save file, I am not able to save file and the changes are lost. I feel that improvements can be made on architecture level to sort out all these issues. The tool should be asset light, means should be able to work on minimum computing requirements.

Powerful tool but easy to use and simple to deploy Open Source Tool Single tool provides features to perform Web UI, Mobile and API automation Supports Page Object Modal Provides Object Spy feature Provides cross browser testing It has both manual and script mode It has many pre-defined methods which helps the manual testers to create automation scripts Releases feature updates frequently Provides integration with various 3rd party tools like TestRail, qTest, Git, Jenkins Provides great reports.

Paid support Frequent feature release takes time for installation everytime

1. It's free 2. Very easy to use 3. Lots of built in features 4. Easy to integrate with other tools 5. Low learning curve

1. No Support at all, you have to buy a package even if you need a small question answered. 2. Would have liked if the inbuilt keywords were customization. Need to have more features which allow to build more features like recovery scenarios etc. 3. Managing the project on git is difficult. Faced difficulties in collaborating across the team. 4. Frequent version releases and poor backward compatibility

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). Plenty of information on the web to troubleshoot and ask questions (unlike our previous tool). May frequent updates and feature releases.

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.

Katalon Studio is an affordable solution that allows for many complex testing needs to be met and integrated within the QA pipeline. We used Katalon as a testing agent for our API developments and ongoing monitoring for Single Sign On solutions. Setup was quick and easy with more in depth functionality as we saw fit available to fine tune our testing and monitoring.

There was a small learning curve in the language used to develop the scripts but nothing major. The biggest hit came when they moved from allowing us to call Katalon via a batch script for free and making you pay for individual engines to run to allow for our monitoring.

We are using Katalon Studio for UI automation. Some of the Pros about this software are 1. Free licensing and hence no cost to the company 2. Ability to integrate Katalon studio with the the latest automation tools such as Appium, Selenium and Win AppDriver 3. Ability to record the UI objects using Katalon UI Recorder 4.Ease of use for Manual testers, since recording option is available 5. Support for Groovy and Java languages. 6. Katalon test cloud to host mobile automation test cases.

The biggest disadvantage with Katalon is the ability to debug the code at run time. When a code gives an error, the compiler moves to the next line without letting us know what the real error is. Also support for external data source is very limited like connecting to excel or SQL.

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!

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.

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.

Katalon Studio is very good for automation testers and it develops a better-inbuilt framework easy to deploy code to git

it won't handle drag and drop Functionality efficiently and upload image functionality also not good and select value from drop down also not handled properly

In built framework, no need to create your own. Can we Web, API and Mobile automation. Comes as a package. Installation is easy and 1 step process. IDE based on Eclipse, so all scripts and debugging feature available. Great Test Mgmt Capability. Supports execution on many environments. Supports parallel execution Great reports (PDF, HTML, Excel). Inbuilt data driven testing. Integrated with Jira, GIT, Slack, Sauce Lab, Browser stack etc. Good documentation and Video's for training

No much community support. Product still evolving. Paid support is expensive Newer version and new feature along with bug fixes are frequent. Support via forum not so fast.

Quick setup Easy to learn and use Good team collaboration options Easy to integrate to pipeline Out-of-the-Box solution

UX of application Some minor instabilities

We can have web/API/Mobile scenarios automated in a single test file. This is very much useful to test integration of multiple components/systems.

Not sure why simple debug comes with only enterprise version.

- 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.

It is really simple to automate various tests on the web and mobile or across various other devices using the Katalon Studio application. It provides an interface that help to record screens and track changes to code and save the steps as part of tests. It requires Appium software for mobile automation and also integration with tools like Android Studio for automating android applications. It is available free of cost, being an open source application, and also a great interface to use. It provides relatively good features for mobile automation. Not sure about it's support with Selenium, especially for web automation, but it's worth a try!

Android Studio, IntelliJ IDEA and many other IDEs are available that can provide better and easy integrations with Selenium and Selendroid or Appium, that have proven to do wonders in the field of automation testing.

Easy to use, automagically created test scripts that works and you can fine tune manually or out right create from scratch via easy to learn (Java based) groovy scripts

Hard to say, you can compare it against other “free” options for pricing but it depends on your own team capabilities and time to make that comparison .

One of the main reasons I chose this tool for my team to use is because you don't already have to know how to program to use it. This enables me to use people that are not as expensive to do our automation.

There is no dark background for when you have to script only white. That C# selenium test can not be converted.

The fact that Katalon is open source and tightly tied to groovy allows a developer many different ways to creatively implement automated testing solutions. Documentation and examples on how to implement things are plentiful and all source is out on Git so issues/suggestions feedback is good and any potential bugs are fixed quickly and easily.

A little less features than some competing Automated Testing Solutions, especially since I was a somewhat early adopter of katalon and a lot of the features at the time were not present that now exist. However the current version and features offered are robust and fact that it is free puts it out ahead of the competition in affordable/robust testing solutions.

It takes the load of manual testing off your head, by simple procedures you can automate functional testing with the help of katalon studio. It has inbuilt keywords which facilitate the use. Its setup is easy and the tool is not difficult to understand. It gets easily integrated with your browser.

A few more keywords could have made the job even more easier.

Ease of setup and use. Scripts being automatically generated while adding recorded or manually added steps also make it very simple to learn Groovy scripting language.

Recorded steps are not very robust, so it would take some tweaking and fine-tuning to improve successful execution rate for recorded tests.

Web, mobile and API testing, and of cost the cost.

Unlike tools like Selenium the script creation is limited to Java and Groovy only

It's easy to jump into and get started with, similar to selenium with more robust features. For a team that doesn't have a coding background and plans on expanding to different platforms, it ticks most of the boxes. The free version also offers enough functionality to users that are in small organisations and can't afford the more expensive tools.

the dark them isnt great. When capturing runs using the record feature, some elements arent always captured correctly, and have to be captured manually. The documentation could be better