We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Sauce Labs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"The most important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"I like the feature where you can define a model that represents your website and then reuse the components from the model. It makes creating more test cases easy."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"With Sauce Labs, we have a whole universe of devices: Galaxy, all the iPhones, and all the operating system versions. All our software developers are able to test on a multitude of different devices."
"It helped to integrate our performance testing and UAT, which helped to deliver a bug free software for our customers."
"The Failure Analysis feature is really important for us, one of the most important aspects. What is the root cause? Is it because we have a defect or is it that we have a test case that we need to fix or modify? The Failure Analysis is one of the main functionalities that I am exploring all the time in Sauce Labs... The Failure Analysis helps us to discover which test cases we need to work on."
"From an infrastructure support perspective, the number of VMs, browsers installations and versions that we would be maintaining without Sauce Labs would be a lot. This includes not only the infrastructure costs, but also the maintenance costs and people's time. The labor cost associated with maintaining all of that would be considerably high. In terms of efficiency, having concurrent VMs with various browser combinations available has allowed us to run multiple executions by all our teams."
"I never faced any issues with the stability."
"Testing across multiple devices and environments is now possible to do quickly and effectively."
"Sauce Connect gave us ability to test an application that was hosted locally."
"One of the most valuable features is that we do not have to have the cross-platform testing vehicles in-house. Sauce Labs gives us the ability to test across platforms and that really helps give us confidence in our products."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"Another feature that could still be improved on is more error clarity. Sometimes when running automated scripts the test will fail on the device side instead of the script and errors only show a 500 try again message instead of a detailed script that could of a been a timeout error from the code."
"Lacks the ability to start multiple tests simultaneously."
"Sauce Labs can include new technologies like generative AI capabilities."
"With the desktop browser, we can inspect any screen with the web developer option, but they should provide something for mobiles so that we can quickly inspect elements on the device. To write the Selenium scripts, we require web locators. We have to capture them from the local and execute the script on Sauce Labs. If Sauce Labs can provide a solution where we can inspect any of the mobile devices online, it will be very helpful for us."
"They could improve the platform's customer support services."
"Sauce Labs' dashboard could be improved by adding more filters and allowing more customization options. There was one instance where the dashboard on the Sauce Labs UI didn't meet our requirements, so we had to use the Sauce Labs API to create some apps and dashboards on our own. The API endpoints could be a little more robust and customizable."
"The ability to configure the memory and CPU for the test machines should be included."
"Sauce Labs needs to be improved in the different platforms for farm testing, like iOS and Android farm testing and farm testing web browsers."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 42 reviews while Sauce Labs is ranked 13th in Test Automation Tools with 113 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Sauce Labs is rated 8.8. 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 Sauce Labs writes "Robust documentation, helpful support representative, good licensing model". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Sauce Labs is most compared with BrowserStack, Perfecto, LambdaTest, Bitbar and OpenText UFT One. See our Katalon Studio vs. Sauce Labs report.
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