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    Appium

    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Broadcom Automic Automation

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ABroadcom Automic Automation (formerly the CA Automic Business Automation Platform)is a workload automation and release / deployment management offering supported by Broadcom, which provides an open, scalable and unified approach to driving automation across, enableing the user to reduce time-to-value and increase business agility by using automation as the backbone of digital transformation.N/A

    Katalon

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AKatalon Studio is provided by the vendor as a free and robust automation solution for API, Web and Mobile testing. It is designed to eliminate the complexities of building an automation framework by integrating all necessary test components with built-in keywords and project templates. Katalon Studio includes a full feature set for a complete test automation process covering multiple platforms and testing types. New users can get started with test automation using its easy-to-use…

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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details——Katalon Studio was originated from KMS Technology R&D. It has been a successful solution for numerous automation projects ranging from small team to enterprise client. Katalon Studio is free for use, product development is funded by the testing services provided by KMS Technology. To support future releases, please consider subscribing to our business support services.
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    AppiumBroadcom Automic AutomationKatalon
    Considered Multiple Products
    JS Foundation
    Chose Appium
    Most of mobile testing tools which are available in the market are paid license tools. But Appium is Open source mobile testing tool. We can create customised automation framework using Appium. It also supports various languages such as Java, Javascript etc. And also supports …
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    Broadcom
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    Katalon Inc
    Chose Katalon
    Ready API is one of the most popular and widely used tool for API automation. Data driven testing and reporting are some of the features which makes this tool very useful. but if we compare this tool with Katalon Studio, this is only useful for API automation where as Katalon …
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    Chose Katalon
    Katalon Studio is above both the tools is due to its codeless test automation feature and having API, desktop, web, and mobile automation in one place but obviously there is room for improvement when desktop automation is of primary importance in the automation.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Features
    AppiumBroadcom Automic AutomationKatalon
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Appium and Broadcom Automic Automation and Katalon
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    Appium
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    Broadcom Automic Automation
    8.3
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    Katalon
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    Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings9.14 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration00 Ratings8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AppiumBroadcom Automic AutomationKatalon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    8.2
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    8.1
    (11 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
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    10.0
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    Usability
    9.0
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    9.0
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    4.5
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    User Testimonials
    AppiumBroadcom Automic AutomationKatalon
    Likelihood to Recommend
    JS Foundation
    1. It's open source which supports range of languages, operating systems and languages. Well suited for Android and IOS mobile automation. Supports all kinds of apps, which makes it flexible and robust mobile testing tool 2. It is less appropriate where we need intercept network call to verify the API calls. Extensive coding experience is required to work Appium
    Incentivized
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    Broadcom
    This product has huge capacity to run millions of jobs per month, can serve to enterprise level of business. If client is looking for platform base solution which can be deployed on-prem or cloud base technologies then this solution works well. It has very good licensing mechanism which is based on number of agents, and there is no limitation of number of jobs run. So client has not to worry on limitation of jobs and can scale of the automation in the environment. This reduced the total cost of ownership of product. Self service automation feature can reduce the client automation cost significantly. it has good batch job coverages from Mainframe to Microservices.
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    Katalon Inc
    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.
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    Pros
    JS Foundation
    • It uses WebDriver API so it makes it easy to use for former web test automation engineers.
    • It can be managed via the command line via an extensive set of parameters.
    • It handles implicit waits at the server side that is especially valuable in distributed infrastructure.
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    Broadcom
    • Wide range of internal functions
    • Many interfaces (incoming and outgoing)
    • Modern, web-based user interface
    • Strong roadmap with topics such as containerisation and AI
    • High throughput possible (> 1 million executions per day)
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    Katalon Inc
    • 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.
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    Cons
    JS Foundation
    • Element browser sometimes is unreliable and has sporadic fails.
    • Appium running is a bit slow, compared to tests written with Appium and with Espresso or XCTest.
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    Broadcom
    • Could improve the framework.
    • Could improve the underlying coding standards.
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    Katalon Inc
    • 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.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    JS Foundation
    I am rating 10/10 because Appium can use with multiple programming languages with multiple Test engines. Also, it works for both Android and iOS.
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    Broadcom
    Automic is a very strong Automation Platform which enable us to implement user requirements quickly.
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    Katalon Inc
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    Usability
    JS Foundation
    I would like to give 9/10 rating to Appium because of it can easily integrate with popular frameworks and CI/CD tools, as well as it is reliable, flexible and easy to use. The setup can bit complex in initial step, but once on configured it's very easy to use and enables stable and scalable mobile automation for real and cloud devices.
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    Broadcom
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    Katalon Inc
    Due to the slowness, there is an intermediate timeout. There is no other problem.
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    Support Rating
    JS Foundation
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    Broadcom
    I have not used Automic One Automation Platform (formerly CA Automic Automation Platform) support.
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    Katalon Inc
    I love the support. They have provided answers and solutions for most of our questions or doubts that could come up. They also have provided basic tutorials on how to get familiarized with the program.
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    Alternatives Considered
    JS Foundation
    If you're an Apple developer, you use Xcode. It's practically a forced necessity. For system testing though, it doesn't have to be. You can have your development team focus on unit and integration tests in their platform and another team automate acceptance tests with a language they are more familiar with.
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    Broadcom
    1. Cost was the major factor without compromising the automation service which this product delivered. Other products are expensive and deliver the same outcome. 2. Limitation of job run, Broadcom Automic Automation allows to run unlimited jobs and helps to increase automation capability. 3. Number of automation packs available with no extra license cost. 4. Depth of coverage of technologies for batch job automation. 5. Required less number of hardware to achieve high availability.
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    Katalon Inc
    Katalon Studio is above both the tools is due to its codeless test automation feature and having API, desktop, web, and mobile automation in one place but obviously there is room for improvement when desktop automation is of primary importance in the automation.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    JS Foundation
    • Appium is open source, so it's free. That's budget friendly right there.
    • The ability to write mobile automation tests has saved considerable time for our manual test team, but that is true with most automation tests.
    • We use Sauce Labs with our other automation, but Appium works great with Sauce Labs, as well, if I needed to run on emulators and simulators.
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    Broadcom
    • Improved SAP automation thereby giving good returns.
    • Provides mail integration which further widens automation scope and profits.
    Incentivized
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    Katalon Inc
    • Support can be better: As mentioned before, katlon community is still growing but is currently a small community. If you are stuck, its hard to find help in the community and one has to reach out to the support for help. This takes a while before you can get solution to your problem.
    • Result upload takes little longer time: It is been observed that uploading tests results takes little longer.
    • Sometimes it gets hard to integrate: Since this is fairly a new tool, requires lot of learning curve to get the job done effectively.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Project setup - fast start with pre-built templates and scriptsScreenshot of Run Single Tests or Suites on multiple configurations and data sets
Multiple Platform Support so you can run your automation tests on Windows, OSX, Android, and iOSScreenshot of Maintain TestsScreenshot of View Reports