We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"The functionality of the data is very good. You can upload and disperse data using the solution."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward and easy enough to complete."
"We are now performing automated testing in 15 minutes, which were previously taking a long time when doing it manually."
"The most valuable feature is that the browser and the API testing is available in a single tool, and I don't have to look at other options."
"It is easy for a non-technical person to use and adopt."
"The best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"The solution is mainly stable."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Azure DevOps."
"TestComplete is simple, it's a very easy-to-use tool."
"The ease-of-use and quality of the overall product are above average."
"The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them. The are other features that SmartBear TestComplete has but the competition widely has them as well."
"The product has many features."
"It allows us to test both desktop and web applications."
"It works very fine. It is fast on almost any machine, and it is also very well organized. I like its object mapping and its capability to find and interact with almost everything that exists on Windows."
"Currently, I'm the only one who can use it because I have a Mac. It is giving a hard time to my team members who are on Linux. My team members are using Linux, and Katalon doesn't support Linux very well. It keeps on crashing. It crashes and shuts down almost every time they save their work, so they are not able to use it. It should have good support for Linux. We don't know what the problem is. If the Katalon team can pick up this issue, it will be very helpful."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"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."
"Katalon Studio could improve having visual testing, but I think they're launching that feature very soon. We would like to see an increase in the usage of AI."
"During parallel execution, some reports are randomly switched."
"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."
"The solution needs Mac OS support. Right now, the solution has only been developed to accommodate Windows OS."
"It is very hard to read the test log generated by TestComplete Executor if the log file is very big. TestComplete Executor is a small tool for just running the TestComplete test framework (not for developing)."
"Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work."
"I didn't use it very heavily. One issue that I found was that there wasn't a quick way or a button to move Visual Basic scripts to TestComplete. We have a lot of such scripts in our organization, and it would be very useful to have some option to easily move these scripts. It is currently possible to convert these scripts to TestComplete, but it is not easy. I have to write some code, but everything is not available immediately."
"Error handling features in the tool are a little limited."
"In the cross-browser domain, it has a few snags with Microsoft Edge and Chrome; although, these problems are not critical."
"TestComplete gives support to do requests to a SOAP web service but has no support to do HTTP requests on Restful services."
"The way objects are added and used when utilizing descriptive programming could be improved. It is a little unwieldy, compared to UFT."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 41 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 7th in Test Automation Tools with 71 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Apache JMeter, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One, froglogic Squish and Eggplant Test. See our Katalon Studio vs. SmartBear TestComplete report.
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