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 most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"The environment variables are a valuable feature because I can easily switch them and see all the developments in different cycles and stages."
"We are using the automation and performance testing tools."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
"I have enjoyed using parameters and setting parameters while powering directly."
"The user-interface is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the user interface because it provides a clear space for the URL, headers, body, prerequisites, and tests."
"It is easy and simple to use and install. It is compatible with Linux, Mac or Windows."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"I would like to have a code snippet where I can write a code and for the responses of the endpoints to be validated using my custom business conditions."
"We do the implementation of Postman and give support. We had to use two engineers for the implementation, one senior and one junior for the process."
"UI testing needs to be added to the solution."
"The scalability of the solution can be improved."
"The reporting could be better. It should give you a detailed PDF report after you run a test."
"If they could implement auto-validations and assertions from SoapUI, that would be a very good feature."
"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."
"If you have knowledge of JavaScript, the initial setup is easy and straightforward. If not, it may take some time to learn about JavaScript before starting the implementation."
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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