We performed a comparison between BrowserStack and Katalon Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Regression Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The speed of the solution and its performance are valuable."
"BrowserStack has lots of devices to choose from."
"BrowserStack's best feature is browser testing across different platforms, including mobile."
"Maintenance of the solution is easy."
"I've worked on testing integrations with BrowserStack, particularly with a platform called IT. This involves testing the registration process, including receiving verification codes on devices and phones. BrowserStack has been excellent for testing these integrations, providing a seamless workflow development experience."
"It just added some flexibility. There was nothing that improved our coding standards, etc. because all of our UIs were functional before we tried it."
"It is a stable solution. There's no lagging and jittering."
"The setup was quite simple. The website easily explains how to set it up and if you want to integrate it with BMP tools there are online simple step tutorials."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"The most important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"If you are inactive for 30 minutes, the solution will close."
"Connectivity can sometimes mar the testing experience."
"It is difficult to use for someone who has little to no experience."
"We are struggling to do local testing."
"BrowserStack should work on its Internet connectivity although issues only occur occasionally."
"Sometimes BrowserStack is really slow and devices are not loading. it is really annoying and that's why we bought several newer devices because sometimes it's affecting us a lot."
"We are having difficulty with the payment system for the BrowserStack team, as they only accept credit cards and we are encountering some issues."
"The tool's maintenance is very difficult since they do not follow call by value or call by reference. Due to this, any change happening is not reflected throughout all the test cases. There are some issues with data parameterization as well."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
BrowserStack is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews. BrowserStack is rated 8.0, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BrowserStack writes "Good in the area of automation and offers a high test coverage to users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes " Functional automation features and the recording functionality saves time but the performance and script execution is slow ". BrowserStack is most compared with LambdaTest, Sauce Labs, Perfecto, Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium. See our BrowserStack vs. Katalon Studio report.
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