We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Selenium HQ 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 initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"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 most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is the ease of use of the solution."
"It is easy for a non-technical person to use and adopt."
"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."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"I believe Selenium HQ to be the best solution in the market for automating web applications"
"Has a good Workday application that enables us to handle some of the custom controls."
"It's not too complicated to implement."
"We found the initial setup to be straightforward."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"Selenium HQ's most valuable feature is its online community support, which is comprehensive and easy to access."
"The solution is very easy to implement."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open-source, has a good interface, and integrates well."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"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."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so."
"Selenium HQ can improve the authorization login using OTP, it is not able to be done in this solution."
"For people that don't know about technology, maybe it's difficult to use."
"It would be better if we could use it without having the technical skills to run the scripting test."
"There's no in-built reporting available."
"It would be better if it accommodated non-techy end-users. I think it's still a product for developers. That's why it's not common for end-users, and especially for RPA activities or tasks. It's hard to automate tasks for end-users. If it will be easier, more user-friendly, and so on, perhaps it can be more interesting for this kind of user."
"Selenium Grid set-up is bit complex."
"You need to have experience in order to do the initial setup."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. 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 Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Avo Assure. See our Katalon Studio vs. Selenium HQ report.
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