We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Postman 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 initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is the ease of use of the solution."
"I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"The tool has a good record and playback feature for functionality, which saves time when creating automated tests."
"We use it for REST API testing. Feature-wise, it is pretty lightweight. It is pretty fast, and we don't have to do a lot of things. We can just simply go and post our endpoint, and it gives different kinds of authorizations. We usually use authentication 2.0, which is the most common industry practice. So, it has the support for authorization through 2.0."
"It's user-friendly. Anybody can learn it within five to seven minutes."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"It helps me to test APIs independently. It also supports hosting."
"The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"Postman is useful for API testing."
"Postman uses the DRY framework of JavaScript and that framework is easy and a good way to put assertions on responses."
"It is nice to have different workspaces. You have your personal workspace, and then you have a team workspace. In general, I like its UI. It is quite cool."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"One improvement would be if it could support more programming languages such as JavaScript or Python. Right now, it is only on Groovy, which I think is not a too popular language."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"Now we are having difficulties in using it and had to limit our automation experts to the features that Katalon allows us to use for free. It was free access and they claimed that it would be free for all time."
"I would like that if you click on one of the fields you should be able to see the entire row of fields, names, and values."
"The reporting could be better. It should give you a detailed PDF report after you run a test."
"It should be able to check the records and compare them to the regression testing more on the automation side."
"To get this email reporting function, we have to integrate Postman with Newman. If the two are not integrated, we won't be getting all these things in one group."
"We'd like to see some better UI in newer versions."
"I would like to see improvements in the maintenance of the scripts and their collections. It is really painful that the user cannot drag and drop. It was also painful to create the standard suite of operations for the product. I am not sure if this is improved in the tool’s latest versions. The maintenance of the complex scenarios prompted us to use the solution only for unit testing. In the future, we may switch to the k6 framework."
"An area that needs some improvement would be to allow multiple windows with different collections to be open at the same time."
"Testing API is pretty straightforward in Postman, but it falls short when testing web services. For example, when we test web services, there is a visual component that we can import in SoapUI but not in Postman."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 42 reviews while Postman is ranked 1st in API Testing Tools with 52 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Postman 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 Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT One, Testim, Appium and Ranorex Studio, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Apigee and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. Postman report.
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