We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and OpenText Silk Test 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 best feature is the split up between test cases and the test object. This allows us to easily change an error."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"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."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"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."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"The ability to develop scripts in Visual Studio, Visual Studio integration, is the most valuable feature."
"A good automation tool that supports SAP functional testing."
"Scripting is the most valuable. We are able to record and then go in and modify the script that it creates. It has a lot of generative scripts."
"The statistics that are available are very good."
"The feature I like most is the ease of reporting."
"The major thing it has helped with is to reduce the workload on testing activities."
"The scalability of the solution is quite good. You can easily expand the product if you need to."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"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."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"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."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"They should extend some of the functions that are a bit clunky and improve the integration."
"The pricing is an issue, the program is very expensive. That is something that can improve."
"Could be more user-friendly on the installation and configuration side."
"The solution has a lack of compatibility with newer technologies."
"The support for automation with iOS applications can be better."
"Everything is very manual. It's up to us to find out exactly what the issues are."
"We moved to Ranorex because the solution did not easily scale, and we could not find good and short term third-party help. We needed to have a bigger pool of third-party contractors that we could draw on for specific implementations. Silk didn't have that, and we found what we needed for Ranorex here in the Houston area. It would be good if there is more community support. I don't know if Silk runs a user conference once a year and how they set up partners. We need to be able to talk to somebody more than just on the phone. It really comes right down to that. The generated automated script was highly dependent upon screen position and other keys that were not as robust as we wanted. We found the automated script generated by Ranorex and the other key information about a specific data point to be more robust. It handled the transition better when we moved from computer to computer and from one size of the application to the other size. When we restarted Silk, we typically had to recalibrate screen elements within the script. Ranorex also has some of these same issues, but when we restart, it typically is faster, which is important."
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Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews while OpenText Silk Test is ranked 13th in Regression Testing Tools. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while OpenText Silk Test is rated 7.6. 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 OpenText Silk Test writes "Stable, with good statistics and detailed reporting available". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas OpenText Silk Test is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Selenium HQ, OpenText UFT Developer and Apache JMeter. See our Katalon Studio vs. OpenText Silk Test report.
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