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 best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"The tool has a good record and playback feature for functionality, which saves time when creating automated tests."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"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 solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"Technical support is helpful."
"We have seen a return on investment."
"The solution is scalable."
"The testing time is shortened because we generate test data automatically with SOAtest."
"Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in."
"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."
"If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"I would like to see improvements in how Katalon Studio works with iOS applications, especially with React Native applications."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."
"Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements."
"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 product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually."
"The summary reports could be improved."
"From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly."
"During the process of working with SOAtest and building test cases, the .TST files will grow. A negative side effect is that saving your changes takes more time."
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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