We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Visual Studio Test Professional 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."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."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"The best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward and easy enough to complete."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"Our clients have requested by all types of testing, including mobile, desktop, and API testing and all of those are covered by Katalon. I find that very valuable, very complete."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"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."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."
"The debugging feature is valuable."
"I was satisfied with the support given by customer service."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"Visual Studio is an exemplary integrated development environment that stands out due to its exceptional features. It allows for the seamless selection of the appropriate programming language for the specific development tasks at hand. This facilitates a swift and effortless transition between languages, providing a highly efficient development experience."
"The stability has always been very good."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"Katalon Studio should improve its usability, it still needs some improvement where users can easily use it to build their automation suite. It requires some initial work to set it up. There should be more keywords in the library to limit the coding requirements, this will allow a non-technical person easily start using it, which would be better."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"I would appreciate some enhancements in the interface, maybe adding more color options."
"The price could be improved."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
"Its UI could be better."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"The interface should be made attractive."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
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Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise. See our Katalon Studio vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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