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."It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"The most valuable feature is that the browser and the API testing is available in a single tool, and I don't have to look at other options."
"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 most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is the ease of use of the solution."
"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 is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"The tool has a good record and playback feature for functionality, which saves time when creating automated tests."
"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 product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools."
"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
"You can easily write code, test, and deploy within the same environment. It is a mature tool. It regularly receives new updates and versions. In my opinion, it's one of the best products by Microsoft for developers."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"The product’s regression testing time could be reduced."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
"The product must provide more integration."
"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."
"The solution should be cheaper."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"The solution can improve the startup time."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
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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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