Appium vs Katalon Studio

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Appium works well for well-structured mobile applications test automation that is particularly easy to leverage when different pages of the app use similar building blocks. If it takes time for some content in the app to be rendered, ask your dev team to add progress indicators and ensure they are accessible. That might be more complicated to do with Appium, though, if there's no good contact with Dev team established so you can request accessibility IDs added quickly enough when needed.Appium supports another locator strategies as well though (such as xPath or iOS class chain on iOS) but they wouldn't work as fast so you may get really slow tests.

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees

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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.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

Crossdevice: With Appium you can automate tests for Android and iOS both. There is no need to learn more than 1 language.
Easy: It's really easy to configure and use appium; it's very useful when you're testing strategy is based on "developers write tests".
Open Source: It's such a nice strength of appium, because you don't need to pay to use a good tool like Appium is.

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Javier Cardoso

Quality Assurance & Testing Senior Engineer

Mercadolibre.comInternet, 1001-5000 employees

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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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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Since it is open source, we're at the hands of the developers whenever there is a business critical emergency.
We've run into issues which are not well documented and have spent considerable time communicating back and forth between the appium team to resolve them.
Setup could be simplified.

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Employee in Engineering

Building Materials Company, 10,001+ employees

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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.

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Consultant in Information Technology

Information Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have not used any other product that compares to Appium in the realm of mobile automated testing

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Employee in Engineering

Building Materials Company, 10,001+ employees

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Katalon has no License fee, a nice user-friendly UI to use, easy setup and quick automation, easy integration with other tools like JIRA, Jenkins, ALM, etc., and Katalon analytics tools.

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Information Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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