We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Functional Tester and Katalon Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."The most valuable feature is the UI component tester."
"It is compatible with all sorts of Dark Net applications. Its coverage is very good."
"Test automation is most valuable because it saves a lot of time."
"IBM Rational Functional Tester is very contextual."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"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 initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"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."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"One of the features that I like is Object Recognition. It worked very well, and it allowed me to create a dynamic expert based on my requirements."
"As many of our products are moving from PC to mobile, the most important thing that this solution needs is mobile app support."
"The latest version has increased load time before testing can be run."
"If the solution is running on Linux, there are some issues around application compatibility."
"They need to do a complete revamp so that even a non-technical person can manage the tool."
"The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"One improvement would be if it could support more programming languages such as JavaScript or Python. Right now, it is only on Groovy, which I think is not a too popular language."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"Object Spy is brittle. When I try to capture objects, I have to proceed multiple times before it works."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
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IBM Rational Functional Tester is ranked 10th in Regression Testing Tools with 8 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews. IBM Rational Functional Tester is rated 7.2, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Functional Tester writes "Reliable test automation, and test data creation with efficient support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". IBM Rational Functional Tester is most compared with Selenium HQ, HCL OneTest, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify and OpenText UFT One, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim.
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