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."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"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."
"I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"The most valuable features are ExpectedConditions, actions, assertions, verifications, flexible rates, and third-party integrations."
"The initial setup is straightforward. Deployment took about seven months."
"Selenium HQ has a lot of capabilities and is compatible with many languages."
"I believe Selenium HQ to be the best solution in the market for automating web applications"
"We can run multiple projects at the same time and we can design both types of framework, including data-driven or hybrid. We have got a lot of flexibility here."
"The solution is free to use."
"The plugins, the components, and the method of the library with Selenium is very user defined."
"Has a good Workday application that enables us to handle some of the custom controls."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"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."
"I would like to see improvements in how Katalon Studio works with iOS applications, especially with React Native applications."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"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."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"Object Spy is brittle. When I try to capture objects, I have to proceed multiple times before it works."
"They should leverage the tools for supporting Windows apps."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
"If they can integrate more recording features, like UFT, it would be helpful for automation, but it's not necessary. They can also add a few more reporting features for advanced reporting."
"They should add more functionality to the solution."
"Selenium HQ can be complex. The interface requires a QA engineer or an expert to use it."
"It does require a programming skill set. I would like the product not to require a heavy programming skill set and be more user-friendly for someone without a programming background."
"It would be very helpful to be able to write scripts in a GUI, rather than depend so heavily on the command line."
"One limitation of Selenium is that it is purely focused on web application testing."
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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