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."This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"The initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"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."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the Selenium grid, which allows us to run tests in parallel."
"It's easy for new people to get trained on this solution. If we are hiring new people, the resource pool in the market in test automation is largely around Selenium."
"It is programming language agnostic, you can write tests in most currently used languages."
"My customer previously validated every file and it would take almost 15-20 minutes for a document. They used to randomly select and test only 100 out of the thousands, maybe 85,000, files, to pick up sampling. Each file would take around 20 to 25 minutes, so we were not able to do it manually, but with the help of Selenium, we were able to test all the files in two days. It saves a lot of time."
"It is compatible with and supports multiple languages, such as Java and Python. It is open source, and it is widely used."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open source and has multiple languages and browser support. It's very useful."
"The plugins, the components, and the method of the library with Selenium is very user defined."
"The most valuable features are ExpectedConditions, actions, assertions, verifications, flexible rates, and third-party integrations."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"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."
"Selenium Grid set-up is bit complex."
"There's no in-built reporting available."
"It would be very great if Selenium would provide some framework examples so newcomers could get started more quickly."
"An improvement to Selenium HQ would be the inclusion of a facility to work on Shadow DOM."
"Selenium HQ can improve by creating an enterprise version where it can provide the infrastructure for running the tests. Currently, we need to run the test in our infrastructure because it's a free tool. If Google can start an enterprise subscription and they can provide us with the infrastructure, such as Google Cloud infrastructure where we can configure it, and we can run the test there, it would be highly beneficial."
"There are some synchronization issues"
"We do not have enough resources or enough people to employ and hire. So, I'm hiring whoever I find, and they don't always have enough technical knowledge to operate Selenium."
"Handling frames and windows needs to be improved."
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 "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". 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 Subject7. See our Katalon Studio vs. Selenium HQ report.
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