We performed a comparison between Appium and Katalon Studio 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 library is extensive so the driver interacts with most functions or actions on mobile devices."
"I haven't explored other solutions in this particular area, but what I like best about Appium is the fact that it shares functions with Selenium. The extension of Selenium functions allows me to use all of the methods that exist in that domain, and it just makes it simpler for me. I've been using Selenium for some time as well, so using Appium just seems like a natural fit for me."
"The latest versions of the solution are stable."
"The automation part is extremely helpful in streamlining our processes."
"The solution is easy to use."
"We get a list that shows all devices that are connected to the system."
"We develop apps using the React Native framework, and Appium integrates well for testing those apps. The Appium automation framework also has good integration with GitHub Actions and plenty of other tools and frameworks, including BrowserStack."
"It runs completely flawlessly and seamlessly every day."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"The best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"We are now performing automated testing in 15 minutes, which were previously taking a long time when doing it manually."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"The user interface needs improvement because there are issues when setting up environment variables."
"There is always a concern about the amount of code that is required to enhance the automation process. The idea of having less code or no code is what we would like to see in future updates."
"Image recognition could be improved. We have some images in our mobile applications. It should be able to run from the cloud, so we can automate the catcher."
"I rarely use Appium nowadays because I'm now at the managerial level, but the last time I used it, whenever I selected and clicked on an element, Appium was very slow. I tried to debug it, but I still couldn't find the problem, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement lies with the connector and server. For example, the effort to get into the local machine sometimes causes the emulator to become slow, which then leads to failure in testing, and this is the usual issue I've encountered from Appium. An additional feature I'd like added to Appium in its next release is being able to do automation in iOS without using XPath and the name of the element. In Xcode, you can use previous UI tests for detecting elements, but in Appium, you have to use Xpath and the element name instead of being able to directly put the X-UiPath, which is what you can do in Xcode. In iOS as well, sometimes the element doesn't have a name or a path. Sometimes, there's also no element."
"The setup and installation were a problem for us at first."
"One thing which can be really helpful is that there is some kind of a recorder made available rather than scripting everything."
"The challenging part with Appium is that installation can be a bit tricky. It can be challenging to set up in Android versus iOS environments."
"We need some bug fixes for nested elements."
"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."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"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."
"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."
Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes " Functional automation features and the recording functionality saves time but the performance and script execution is slow ". Appium is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Perfecto, Xamarin Platform, Apache JMeter and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Ranorex Studio. See our Appium vs. Katalon Studio report.
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