Katalon Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.3 out of 10

Score

7.3 out of 10

Community insights

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Pros

Built-in Automation Framework: Users have found the built-in automation framework of Katalon Studio to be a valuable feature, with multiple reviewers mentioning its ease of use and effectiveness in automating tests.

Rich set of Inbuilt Keywords: Many users appreciate the rich set of inbuilt keywords provided by Katalon Studio as it allows them to perform a wide range of testing tasks without the need for complex scripting. This feature has been praised for its time-saving capabilities and flexibility.

Seamless Integration with ALM Tools: The seamless integration of Katalon Studio with Application Lifecycle Management tools has been highly appreciated by users who value streamlined testing processes. Reviewers have mentioned how this integration helps them manage their test cases efficiently and ensures smooth collaboration within their development workflows.

Reviews

11 Reviews

Need to improve on multiple fronts

Rating: 1 out of 10

Incentivized

September 30, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Katalon Studio to test our GraphQL based API's using a Data Driven model. Validation of response and its contents for different requests and integration with Azure Devops.

It solved the use case of end to end testing of our applications

Pros

Trial Version offers good features
Offers integration with several Devops sites

Cons

Integration with Azure is painstakingly slow as it takes too much time to upload reports to Azure. When raised with the support team i was advised to contact Microsoft who promptly and correctly replied that its an issue with the katalon plugin.
Non Responsive Customer Support. Several mails were replied late.
The Desktop app uses too much memory when booting up and running tests even on a 16gb RAM.

Likelihood to Recommend

Free trial version is fine but you don't get the adequate support and VFM for the licensed version. Customer service needs to be improved a lot and any QA's with less technical background or less time to troubleshoot issues in the software on their own would find it difficult to use.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Good tool for Automation TestOps

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 19, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

There was no proper insight to test reports and reports were not organized well. It was difficult to get information on test flakiness or test case failure history. Our organization had already been using Katalon automation tool for writing test cases and with the Katalon testOps, everything is in one place.

Pros

One place for all report history
Get count of tests automated each release
Easy way to schedule and run test suites automatically
Track test flakiness easily

Cons

Very small community
Requires learning curve
Sometimes application crashes

Likelihood to Recommend

Katalon TestOps is well suited for an oraganization who want to organize their automation collections and have everything in one place. It provides good insight on test runs, failures and also helps in defect tracking. It is extremely easy to schedule and run test suites automatically. With the help of test history, it becomes easier to triage the report and identify if it is a product issue or a test flakiness. Also with the automation run scheduling features with custom options, user do not have to manually trigger the runs and just run the scheduler to do the job.

Verified User

Engineer in Quality Assurance (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Katalon Studio - the future of automation

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Katalon studio is relatively new to market but its popularity is growing rapidly. We have started exploring this tool recently and found it very useful if you compare it with other open source tools such as Selenium, Appium etc. It works very well for automating Web/Mobile/APIs with features like Record/Run, Object Spy etc. Altogether it is all in one tool for test automation. Easy to integrate with Git and Jenkins. It also has very nice reporting features with Dashboard. Overall Katalon studio is going to be a leader in test automation industry in coming future. Limitations: Katalon studio didn't locate the Android SDK automatically. We need launch Android emulators manually while running mobile automation tests. Katalon studio Debugging feature is not available with free version. Data driven feature at test case level is also not available with Katalon studio free version.

Pros

Record and Run
Object Spy
Parallel test execution
TestOps
Data driven

Cons

Locate Android SDK path
Launch Android emulators automatically
Support for more languages
Debugging feature is not available with Katalon studio free version
Data driven feature at test case level is not available with Katalon studio free version

Likelihood to Recommend

Katalon studio is where you will get almost all test automation solutions at one place. This tool is well suited for Web, Mobile and API automation. Parallel test execution is also made easy with Katalon studio. Data driven testing using excel, csv etc is also very useful. but it has limitations, there is no provision to open or work with multiple projects at same time in Katalon studio. Debugging feature is also not available with Katalon studio free version.

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Intelligent Automation Studio

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 3, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Earlier, We were spending more efforts in test automation framework and keywords development .Now with Katalon Studio's inbuilt framework and keywords helps us to save lot of time and efforts. If we want to move fast in agile with test automation, then Katalon Studio is one of the right choice with web, mobile and api automation capabilities and much more

Pros

Built in automation framework
Rich set of inbuilt keywords
Rich set of alm integrations

Cons

Desktop automation
Parallel execution
BDD integration

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited tool in agile . Tool is better competitively with other existing tools market. Test case automation efforts reduced more than 60 percent while comparing to our existing approach where we are using keywords based open source framework. Recording feature helps. Multiple combinations of object identifier helps to automate legacy web applications

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

One Tool for Web, Mobile, API and Desktop Testing!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 13, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Katalon Studio is one of the automation tools used in my organization. It is used to automate our web and mobile applications. In our company, it is heavily used for UI and API automation but the tool can be used for image comparison too. The tool supports all different kinds of browsers like Google Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, headless browsers, etc. The tool can be easily integrated with Jenkins, JIRA, GitHub, Qtest, etc. It's a nice stable tool for automation that uses groovy scripting language.

Pros

User friendly GUI
Katalon recorder available. Newbies can play around and easily write test cases.
Integration with CI/CD workflows like JIRA, Jenkins, qTest, Slack, etc.
Supports cross browser testing.
Katalon analytics is available to analyze script failures.

Cons

Katalon Studio supports only grovvy language for now. It will be nice to see support for other scripting languages.
Performance issues; sudden crash of the tool.
Debug button is provided only to licensed owner since Katalon 7+ version.
New tool, few resources available to learn. So there is a mild learning curve here.

Likelihood to Recommend

One can easily automate Web, Mobile, Desktop, API (SOAP as well as REST), and execute the scripts on your desired browser/platform. The record and play option is available so users can use their recorder to record the xpath/objects or can write their own xpath. I would say the reorder is not so great for angular pages where there are no unique locators but it is easy to write their own xpath in this case. For API testing, there is an easy way to import from swagger, WSDL, etc. The tool can be easily integrated with CI/CD. All in all, a good tool for automation.

Verified User

Engineer in Quality Assurance (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Test Automation Tool

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have been actively developing software for 5 years. I use Katalon Studio for the tests of the applications I develop. Katalon Studio is used for web and mobile applications testing. It is preferred because it is completely free. You only need to be a member of the site to download. Thanks to the cross platform feature, we can test the code written in the browser without writing additional code. It supports different operating systems. I create my own test cases with special keywords that use the script mode. Before using this program, I was using the Firefox extension Selenium IDE. selenium IDE is too simple a regression tool compared to Katalon Studio. I automate the test case that I prepared manually using the record feature of the tool.

Pros

Katalon Studio is used for web and mobile applications testing.
It is completely free.
It has a cross platform feature.
It supports different operating systems.

Cons

I expect it to run faster.
The obligation to become a member of the site should be removed.
Errors can occur occasionally while loading the browser.

Likelihood to Recommend

I am developing software in the digital banking unit. Katalon Studio is used for regression tests of mobile applications in our unit. With the Recod feature, a manual test scenario is created through the mobile application first. Later, tools perform regression tests at certain periods and the results are reported.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Katalon Studio - New era of testing

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use it in QA department to automate test scripts across API mobile testing. I love its ability to catch objects using spy web and its smooth record-and-play feature. I personally prefer using Katalon over Selenium because I have less coding knowledge. It helps people who are not that sound in coding to automate their projects.

Pros

Record and play
Spy web features

Cons

Should be familiar with or learn a bit about Groovy
Does not capture objects sometimes while recording

Likelihood to Recommend

It is one of the most recommended solutions for users who have less knowledge in Java and Python, if you don't have a lot of time to automate your scripts, for when you have simple functionalities, or for loading large amount of data. I mostly recommend Katalon Studio for these situations.

Verified User

Engineer in Quality Assurance (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Katalon studio: quick/fast emerging tool in test automation with a lot of future possibilities

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

May 3, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Katalon studio is used in our project for web and mobile test automation. There are multiple business departments which implement changes every two weeks. We built automated test cases with Katalon studio and execute them every night. The programming language is Java. Jenkins is used for CI/CD pipeline. Git repository is used for managing test code.

Pros

Easy to setup and quick to get started: As Katalon comes with built-in features a new automation tester can automate easily. Script creation time is quick.
Test Analytics: Katalon also provides analytics which tells you the pattern of your automated tests at a different instance of time.
Third Party Integration: Katalon provides amazing integration with 3rd party tools like JIRA, ALM, GIT, JENKINS, etc.
Image-based testing: Katalon also provides inbuilt image based test automation.

Cons

Katalon supports only two programming languages, Groovy/Java.
Community support is not good at the moment..
Many features are still in development with Katalon team.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is well suited for quick automation and avoiding dependency on coding skilled resources. It has no licensing fee. It is not well suited for complex projects where high customization is required.

Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

A powerful automated testing tool!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 2, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have switched from manual testing to automated testing for few years and Katalon Studio is the coolest tool that I have used. You don't have to pay any fee and the features it provides are the same as the paid ones. It saves us huge amounts of money and time.

Pros

Easy to use
Amazing features for both web app and mobile application
Free
Easy to find support
It supports both manual and script mode

Cons

You have to redownload and install it to update
Slow sometimes

Likelihood to Recommend

Katalon Studio is appropriate for big projects. And it is really suitable for users having minimum programming skills. It also supports both manual and script modes. A web app and mobile app are available.

Sam Smith

Software Engineer in Quality Assurance at Execute Automation Test (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Powerful automation solution but totally free to use

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 28, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a software consulting company, we need an automation solution that can generate automation <b>test scripts fast, effective, and compatible </b>with our current operating systems. Katalon Studio is a great solution for us! Katalon Studio was the selected contestant to resolve our automation challenges. They help us save the time by creating automated test scripts and we can analyze the result on the cloud with Katalon Analytics. Katalon Studio offers Manual Mode and Script Mode for both beginner and advanced testers. We think this is an awesome feature for manual testers to learn automation and senior testers to improve automation testing skills. We were able to create our custom code infrastructure as micro-services by using Katalon Studio.

Pros

Free automation solution
Powerful tool but easy to use and simple to deploy
Update feature frequently
Great support on their forum

Cons

Tutorials and Documentation need to be updated along with new version releases
Hope to see more active users and distinguish topic on Katalon forum

Likelihood to Recommend

If you are looking for an automation tool with rich UI view of test execution reports, Katalon Studio is a right solution for you. They offer an visual and in-depth test report which can help your team improve performance and productivity.

Johan Chopra

Senior QA Engineer - Automation Testing in Quality Assurance at Cótica Engenharia e Construções (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Katalon Studio - the future of automation

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 12, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

Record and Run
Object Spy
Parallel test execution
TestOps
Data driven

Cons

Locate Android SDK path
Launch Android emulators automatically
Support for more languages
Debugging feature is not available with Katalon studio free version
Data driven feature at test case level is not available with Katalon studio free version

Likelihood to Recommend

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience