We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Parasoft SOAtest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The tool has a good record and playback feature for functionality, which saves time when creating automated tests."
"Katalon Studio's biggest advantage is its price. It's a good tool for the price, albeit with some limitations when you compare it with tools like Tricentis Tosca."
"It has been good so far for API testing on Mac. It is not that hard to learn and use. There is so much support out there, so if anyone wants to start using it, there is enough help."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is the ease of use of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"Whenever I speak to the support team of Katalon Studio, I learn that some new features will be included in the product. It is a scalable product."
"If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest."
"Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports."
"The testing time is shortened because we generate test data automatically with SOAtest."
"Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization."
"Good write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored locally."
"Automatic testing is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is scalable."
"Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"Object Spy is brittle. When I try to capture objects, I have to proceed multiple times before it works."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."
"The product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually."
"From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly."
"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."
"Parasoft SOAtest has an internal refresh function where you can refresh the software to show the changes you’ve made in your projects. Unfortunately this function does not work properly, because it often does not show the changes after you’ve hit te refresh button a few times."
"Enabling/disabling an optional element of an XML request is only possible if a data source (e.g., Excel sheet) is connected to the test. Otherwise, the option is not available at all in the drop-down menu."
"The summary reports could be improved."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 42 reviews while Parasoft SOAtest is ranked 9th in API Testing Tools with 30 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Parasoft SOAtest is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes " Functional automation features and the recording functionality saves time but the performance and script execution is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft SOAtest writes "Good API testing and RIT feature; clarity could be improved". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Parasoft SOAtest is most compared with Postman, SonarQube, Coverity and Polyspace Code Prover. See our Katalon Studio vs. Parasoft SOAtest report.
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