Katalon Information Reviews & Insights

Score7.2 out of 10

38 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Katalon are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

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.

Katalon Reviews

5 Reviews

InformationComputer Software4Information Services1

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 (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Codeless test automation by Katalon Studio

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

May 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Katalon Studio is first used to evaluate the codeless test automation feature and has been used in one of the test automation projects where the customer is interested about having codeless test automation implemented for their software product.

Pros

Codeless test automation
Integration with Web, Mobile, API and Desktop automation
Possibility of end to end test automation using CI tools
Assistance provided during the coding

Cons

Better documentation that helps to automate quicker
Not all the desktop applications are supported, needs to improve a way to automate all desktop applications
Integrations with other reporting systems.

Likelihood to Recommend

If the interest is to start with fewer coding skills then Katalon Studio is one of the good options for automation. It is as simple as writing test cases with predefined methods and actions. It also provides the flexibility to edit the code for the coders but also has limitations compared to the flexibility of creating own framework as like native selenium or appium like tools.

Verified User

Team Lead in Quality Assurance (Computer Software company, 1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year 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 (Computer Software company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years 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 (Computer Software company, 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 (Information Services company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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