Katalon

Score7.6 out of 10

42 Reviews and Ratings

What is Katalon?

Katalon 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 interface and the intelligent record & playback engine while advanced users can design and implement test strategies realizing CI/DevOps best practices.

The vendor states many developers and testers find Katalon configurable scripting modes effective for their testing needs and programming skills. Katalon Studio is trusted and supported by an active community of over 150K users from 150+ countries around the world.

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Screenshot of Project setup - fast start with pre-built templates and scripts

Screenshot 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 iOS

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Screenshot of Project setup - fast start with pre-built templates and scripts

Verified User

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

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

Most Important Features

Record and Run
Object Spy
Parallel testing
Reporting
Data driven testing

Return on Investment

Katalon studio is going to make very positive impact on ROI
In one tool, we can have features for Web, Mobile and API automation testing
I think the licensing cost is a bit on higher side

Alternatives Considered

& ServiceV Pro), LoadUI Pro, ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, Selenium and Appium

Other Software Used

Selenium, Appium, ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, & ServiceV Pro)

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

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

Cons

Desktop automation
Parallel execution
BDD integration

Most Important Features

In built framework
License cost
Testops and analytics

Return on Investment

60% savings in efforts
Easy to maintain test scripts
Flawless execution

Alternatives Considered

TestComplete

Other Software Used

TestComplete, Selenium, SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear

Verified User

Team Lead in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

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.

Most Important Features

Codeless Automation
Free Version features
Lower Pricing relative to competitors

Return on Investment

More Effort spent on investigating Azure pipeline delays and failures when running Katalon test suites
Licenses not released automatically when an Azure pipeline run is completed. No help received from support team on this

Alternatives Considered

Micro Focus UFT One

Other Software Used

Azure Cosmos DB, Azure DevOps Services

Verified User

Engineer in Quality Assurance (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Most Important Features

Single place to analyze test reports
Provides number of tests automated for each release
Helps with defect tracking
Report history for easy triages

Return on Investment

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.

Alternatives Considered

Jenkins and Jira Software

Other Software Used

Appium, VMware Fusion, Docker

Verified User

Team Lead in Quality Assurance (1001-5000 employees employees)

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.

Most Important Features

Codeless test automation
Editor to do with and without code
Flexibility to connect with different data source

Return on Investment

Easy to start solution
Possibility to have desktop, api, web and mobile application under one tool
Possibility to integrate with CI-CD tools

Alternatives Considered

TestComplete and Ranorex Studio

Other Software Used

Selenium, Appium, TestComplete, Ranorex Studio, SmartBear TestLeft, Micro Focus UFT One (formerly HP UFT)

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