Katalon Studio Reviews

Self healing is just great, Katalon testops is really good it has everything a I need all in one platform.

The possibility of analyzing a report should not be KSE's thing.

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

It is easy to use and easy to install. Alao easy to manage when implementing cicd to your project or team.

It requires you to log online before using it offline

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.

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!

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.

The amount of resources for learning and feedback from the community is what makes it such an awesome piece of software to work on.

Katalon studio is now a daily driver in our office and the best of all is that its fee.

Go ahead and try it out today

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

Its easy to download (no installation needed) and use feature.
Multiple methods of scripting test cases.
No or little programming knowledge

Takes time to load.
Freezes often.
Some configurations aren't so straightforward

The browser/desktop recording helps to automatically record scripts and helps a lot in saving time to create automation scripts, plus it helps in parallel execution to save time.

It can't handle the load of a large number of test cases under one suite and consumes a lot of time. Rest functionality is good.

You're able to start creating UI scripts right away and then be able to figure out how you want things laid out as you go along.

To get Katalon to work the way you want, you do have to do a fair amount of customization. By that I mean figuring out how you want to model your tests and test objects, whether it's UI, API, or a hybrid. This may sound bad, but there's enough there to start out with that you're not hindered by initial setup if you're already coming from another tool or similar framework.

Groovy AND Java work well in Katalon with Groovy being the main language for scripting. Groovy is VERY forgiving.

Refactoring is probably my biggest gripe. You can easily refactor variables and shared code in Eclipse, but that seems to be a thing that is missing in Katalon. When it comes to updating test case names or the web objects, those get updated across the board enough, but not when it comes to passing variables and keywords around.

The need to customize a fair amount for satisfactory integration with something like JIRA/Zephyr.

Updating doesn't always work (I use a Mac).

When I start executing tests, there's usually a delay/lag when things actually start or report.

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 me to create new
custom keywords and methods in Katalon library. I could efficiently use the Built in reports
to consolidate the test results. Data driven testing support helped to cover all possible test
scenarios. I managed to use the Integrations with JIRA which worked perfectly fine and
saved a lot of time for documenting test evidences and integration with GIT served the
script version control. Joining the Katalon Community was very helpful to get online
support and obtain solutions to my queries using this forum. The community is open to
suggestions and they do consider the required improvements to incorporate in the future
versions they release. I would suggest every user with minimum coding experience give it a
try as you do not have to pay any cost and no limited using time

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.

Firstly, I've to tell you about the interface of the IDE. It is so easy to navigate and I can view all the required information on the screen without expanding new tabs.

Its object spy is a little laggy while using complex iOS applications. But based on its functionality, the lag can be acceptable.

Its speed on automaton .xpath several option fast in execution and lot more

Its to easy and very intelligent sometime you are not able to choose the right locator because of bad cooding by development and katalon struck

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.

Good feature have in testops to schedule build in different environment , it's makes easy to execute in different platforms parallelly.

While scheduling build in testops either cloud or local it's being in "Quee" longtime.
And some time with out executing it's showing result "Pass" it's a defect we already raised to support team.
And while active the local agent it's taking couple of minuities to show the agent in online.

1. Parallel Execution
2. Developing the scripts in different modes
3. Keywords concept
4. Katalon Analytics
5. Maintaining Objects easily and customizable with different locators
6. Test Listeners helps a lot
7. Plugins concept is really awesome. Saves a lot of time
8. Regular updates from the team
9. Quick response from Katalon Community and Katalon developers

1. Uses more System memory
2. Proposals will not be displayed properly
3. Any errors while developing a script are not displayed. Only when we run we get the errors in the console
4. Some of the jars are very old and those are not updated in the library

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.

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.