QA Wolf vs Katalon Studio Comparison

1.web recoder 2.selenium features. 3.script mode 4.advanced plugins. 5.Git integration

Katalon Studio is Like my Buddy N Legend in Current Market i am thankful to KMS technology to have such great idea to implement this Tool Really Helpled alot.

I am a QA manager and my team tests applications built on different platforms and mobile. We switched from selenium to Katalon and it has made testing easier, faster and easy to maintain

One of my applications is built on Angular. While recording some of the fields are not recognized by Katalon recorder

I am searching for a tool for my QA team for a quiet time. Tried a lot of products in store and Katalon is very simple and ease my QA works alot. I love the product!

Initialize loading of project is taking a bit time.

It is easier than other IDEs for QA work Tests in groovy

It could be more friendly looking it has too much options in the screen. Try something cleaner.

Supports Page Object Model, Direct Integration, Cucumber support, API testing

Few minor issue in playback while identifying elements which is not very big and this is start of this application and it can be fixed by katalon.

Easy to learn, cost saving and reliable.

I would prefer better browser compatibility (especially with Edge).

A very simple to use and useful for QA folks with less or no programming skills.

Not so useful support from the community. Object verification and File Uploads are painful.

The ease of use, once set up it is very easy to work with for QA staff and Developers.

It can be a bit tricky to set up at times.

Open Source Nice GUI Easy to use Documentation

integrations Support unless you pay for it

It provides recorder for automation and it does not require any coding which is helpfull for many qa who do want to come in automation.

When there occurs some error.it gets hard to resolve as there is no more details about those error is found

Very easy and friendly for a non programmer person. I like how Katalon team bring the platform on next level by integrating it on Testrail and other tools for QA. Also the community was very responsive

There are no cons, we just want a detail documentation on how things work from automation mobile with detail step by Step

The software is very easy to use and the user interface is easy to navigate. What I love most is that you can have no experience using this software, but in a short amount of time learn it and create your own test cases. On the flip side of that, you can also have a ton of experience and really use the software to its fullest potential. It caters to everyone.

Nothing. They provide instruction for every step of a process. They also have very easy to understand tutorials, which makes using the software, especially for the novice, very easy to do.

Automation software is not simple. You need to have a basic understanding of Logic and a little bit of scripting experience to make full use of it. Having said that Katalon is as simple to use as you can expect for what it does.

Limited to Web Automation. If you need desktop automation, you have to look elsewhere as of this writing.

This software has been a critical part of our transition from mostly manual QA engineers to a fully functional automated organization. It allows for someone who has no experience with coding or automation to jump right in and start automating.

Setting up some of the database connections felt harder than necessary, and the GUI isn't as intuitive as it could be.

Wow, 1. Free evaluation licensing, 2. ROI on investment 3. Object repository capaibilities like QTP, totally missing in selenium 4. Frameworks seem to be there, all qa models in software testing have frameworks, you will also get there soon.

Cons: Sorry to say, no market in 50BN US $ Software automation market in 2017 AD. 2. Nobody is giving any certification in Selenium unlike QTP, yet top R&D countries like USA, India, UK, Australia, Israel, Canda, and Japan maybe will go after selenium 3. If a software SDET, QA DEv or automation engineer is looking for an SAP type career it has ended, QTP is no more. For mobile markets open...

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Quick, easy to use and setup. Even when you feel confused, there's a huge community support and excellent wiki pages with all info.

The most important integrations that you would use are paid. Apart from that, it doesn't have an IE and it's not that easy to change the variable of a browser or environment in Jenkins

Ease of use and the ability to create processes with a drag/drop method.

The fact it still doesn't work with the most recent version of Appium.

Easy to use Integration with Katalon Recorder Can export code into many different language formats API Automation and easy to make assertions

Limited support for types of Auth when using API calls; Kinda complicated when trying to organise Tests in Test Cases in Test Suites - The Overall Hierarchy; When doing more complex test cases and assertions.. it can get stuck or can end up using a lot of system resources; Could have more precise and details errors.

Recorder and Playback for beginners, Keyword Driven for intermediates, or Java/Selenium Webdriver for advanced usage. Direct Integration with Git, Jira, Browserstack, Docker, Kobiton, Jenkins, and a console mode allowing Integration with Azure Build pipelines, or anything supporting command line execution. Supports Page Object Model, full Java , Groovy, and Selenium Webdriver syntax directly Based on Eclipse IDE which some will find familiar. Cucumber support for BDD /ATDD Extendable with external with java package imports API testing facility rivalling Postman built in Fully documented features Developers listen to the community

Growing community, but still in its infancy Analytics tool but still in Beta Support for many integrations, but requires a lot of research to get these working properly Lack of support for .NET languages (although hardly a compromise)

- 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.

Since I work with apps that are not too demanding, Katalon Studio helps us save time on many QA tasks! The analytics dashboard and reports system work very well. It supports a good amount of testing types, from API to Cross-browser. It has a good learning curve and it's FREE!

For now, it works great - but there is still a limitation in some script languages, which might become an issue in the future. The platform is a closed source- something that takes it toll on the community around it - which is small, for now. I believe making the platform open-source will drive in the community more developers and users.

- Availability of tutorials - Ability to design Test Cases using Editor with the pre-defined set of commands - Comfortable UI for Dev & QA team (it has Eclipse-like interface) - It is a feature-rich solution to address most of the tasks - Ability to use the tool for Web UI tests, REST API tests and mobile testing

- 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).

- The record& playback feature help those QA who doesn't have programming language also can do automation testing. - The object ID changed, immediately all the test cases using the object will get refresh - Object capture can let QA to decide how to navigate to the web element, can have multiple selection by ID,Name,Text,Xpath and so on. If we develop by using eclipse only can have 1 locator at the same time. - Better feature than HP QTP and it's FREE. -Test data can have multiple option like csv,text,excel -Nicer report for all the test suite executed -Allow to import third party library and use it to write the customkeyword in JAVA. -Attached the custom profile use in test suite collection for different testing purposes.

- A lot of issue found when executed the test in command prompt, because I use Jenkins to trigger the test - The browser driver not the latest in the market - Firefox browser not support the latest in the market. - Although I didn't pay for the support but I hope Katalon team can support /fix the stopper issue raised in the forum within short period.

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.

1) Record and Play to Automate tests on the go 2) Export to/Import from other languages to build scripts for use in other environments quickly without effort which helps beginners to pick up automation easily 3) Supported on Windows/Mac and also available for use as plugin for chrome browser making it easy to use across multiple platforms

Support documentation for Linux does have some scope for improvement since I found it difficult to use it in a linux environment as compared to windows or mac