We performed a comparison between Automation Anywhere (AA) 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 most valuable feature is recording in the Control Room, as it allows me to chose what I want to have recorded, ensuring that I get the right thing on time."
"We get a significant ROI even though the licensing cost is higher than average. The gains we realize from the initial development make up for it. In the last three years, I estimate we have saved around 2,200 hours of labor. To date, we've saved almost $6 million."
"We have staff who have been moved out of the mundane tasks and are now doing value-added activities."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to transform data into clusters."
"I liked the Automation Anywhere University. It was easy and simple. I hoped that it wouldn't take too much of my time, and it didn't, which was good."
"Currently, everyone wants to experiment more and more with cloud offerings. They don't want to spend money on setting up their internal hardware infrastructure. Automation Anywhere is the only tool that provides a pure cloud to customers. That is one of the key features."
"I think that one of the coolest features that what Automation Anywhere has come up with is AI Sense. I see an immense potential there. Using AI Sense, we can automate outside Citrix. That's going to remove the client dependency or overall automation journey, and that can give lot of optimization, cost saving, and the time to market."
"The marketing automation software provides easy workflow creation and management."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"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 recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"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."
"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 basic framework and project organization is very good."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward and easy enough to complete."
"The stability of this solution depends on the processes, but I think that there is room for improvement in this regard."
"Automation Anywhere is expensive. They should consider lowering the price to make Automation Anywhere more affordable to SMEs, which comprise a huge segment."
"We looked at the Bot Store initially and didn't find much."
"It should have more commands, which should remove the dependency on MetaBots or other scripts so that everything is available in the tool itself."
"Though IQ Bot is the most powerful and effective cognitive OCR platform for data extraction in the market, still, there is a lot of scope for improvement as there are a lot of non-standard documents which do not give a high straight-through processing rate and accuracy."
"The main things I've found that could be better are small things that can be annoying when you're using them a lot. I would recommend they add a feature where, if you mark the start of an "If" sentence it will highlight the end of the "If" sentence. That would make it easier to get a better overview."
"The Help menu/description can be provided while hovering over actions so that it can help us better to know them."
"Automation Anywhere should add a couple of commands which will help most developers not to always use a script, a good example is in String operations."
"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 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."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
Automation Anywhere (AA) is ranked 3rd in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with 491 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews. Automation Anywhere (AA) is rated 8.4, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Automation Anywhere (AA) writes "Automation Co-Pilot enables us to present details from CRM for business management on one page". 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 ". Automation Anywhere (AA) is most compared with Microsoft Power Automate, UiPath, Blue Prism, Tricentis Tosca and IBM Robotic Process Automation (RPA), whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium. See our Automation Anywhere (AA) vs. Katalon Studio report.
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