We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and ReadyAPI 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."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."
"Katalon Studio's biggest advantage is its price. It's a good tool for the price, albeit with some limitations when you compare it with tools like Tricentis Tosca."
"The initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"We can write code in Java and it is easy to link to other JARs that we find on the internet, which is very handy."
"The best feature is the split up between test cases and the test object. This allows us to easily change an error."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The tool is easy to use. The product gives me the flexibility to use Selenium. I can also use my Java capabilities in the solution."
"The most valuable feature has been the assertion as a test step as this has allowed us to increase the scope of testing and validation."
"I haven't seen any other tool that offers both types of tests. This is very helpful for us, and it's one of the main reasons why we chose this service."
"The initial setup of ReadyAPI is straightforward."
"It can create stress tests very fast, and some features help you do it fast."
"When we are doing API testing we have found it to be very efficient to receive results. Additionally, you are able to do tests directly from the API."
"The most valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it is user-friendly."
"The great thing about ReadyAPI is that it has a wide variety of functions. You can test any API that you come across. You are not limited to one type of API. It supports many APIs."
"The Excel sheet feature is good."
"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."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"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."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"It should start working on Silverlight 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."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"To generate a test suite in API, I had to create a separate one each time because otherwise it was just override the test. Each API had to be added separately. I thought I could just have one and then create different methods, but I had to add each API separately to create the test for that. That is an area that could be improved."
"Many users will consider this solution expensive compared to the layout. It is more expensive than other solutions."
"The UI is not user-friendly."
"Version control does not work well."
"It doesn't have connectors to the NoSQL database. This is one of the things where they do not have a very solid strategy today. Other solutions have an in-built mechanism where I can directly and easily connect. An API is more around a user submitting a request on the frontend. It then hits the backend, puts the data, and responds back. If I am hitting MongoDB or NoSQL databases, I do not have ready-made inbuilt solutions in ReadyAPI that can easily help me in automating it faster. In our organization, we deal with NoSQL databases, and therefore, we need Groovy. We just cannot have a connector from ReadyAPI to do that. I have to write Groovy scripts. If you have themes that are predominantly using MongoDB, it leads to more maintenance and support activity because we are introducing more code into our commission. In terms of additional features, it can have cloud support. This is one of the things where we are getting into cloud support. We'll see how it works, but it is one of the doubts that we still have."
"ReadyAPI could improve by having dynamic validation information."
"In terms of features, I have already raised different change requests on the ReadyAPI side. One of the largest functions I've requested is the validation of the payload for the REST APIs."
"There is a lot of room for improvement, mainly from the point of view of integrating ReadyAPI into the CI pipelines, and also the scripting aspect into Bitbucket."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews while ReadyAPI is ranked 7th in Performance Testing Tools with 34 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while ReadyAPI is rated 7.8. 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 ReadyAPI writes "Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and ACCELQ Automate, whereas ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis Tosca, ReadyAPI Test, SmartBear TestComplete and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. ReadyAPI report.
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