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."Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"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 most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"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."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"Visual Studio is the easiest to use."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."
"The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects."
"The stability has always been very good."
"Visual Studio Test Pro is super helpful for my Microsoft app work."
"The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"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."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"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."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"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."
"The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers."
"Sometimes Visual Studio is slow. It uses a lot of resources like memory and processing power. You should optimize the performance by only installing what you need on your machine. Don't install unnecessary things that will slow your machine."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"Its UI could be better."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
"The interface should be made attractive."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
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Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". 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 UFT One. See our Katalon Studio vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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