We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"The most important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"Whenever I speak to the support team of Katalon Studio, I learn that some new features will be included in the product. It is a scalable product."
"We are now performing automated testing in 15 minutes, which were previously taking a long time when doing it manually."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"The functionality of the data is very good. You can upload and disperse data using the solution."
"The solution is mainly stable."
"The solution has a very nice interface."
"The product has many features."
"The product is stable for what we are currently using it for, and it is sufficient for us."
"Complete works perfectly with CUTE. That includes all dialogues, right-click menus, or system dialogues, etc., which are handled well."
"The solution is great as a record and playback tool. It also has valuable regression testing."
"It's cross platform automation capabilities specially ranging across web, UNIX (via putty), and other systems."
"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"The pricing is the constraint."
"What is currently missing from this solution is better support for mobile testing."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."
"The artificial intelligence needs to be improved."
"At times, identifying or locating an element can be somewhat challenging. However, in a recent test update, they introduced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capability. This introduction has reduced the challenges to some extent, as we can now utilize OCR if the normal method doesn't work. Nevertheless, there is still significant potential for improvement in TestComplete's ability to identify various object elements. I don't have any specific concerns to mention. I have observed significant improvements in TestComplete over the past few years, especially in its support for highly dynamic object elements used in products like Salesforce Dynamics 365. In earlier versions, there were numerous challenges, but the current version is far superior to its predecessors."
"In the cross-browser domain, it has a few snags with Microsoft Edge and Chrome; although, these problems are not critical."
"Right now, when you buy the solution, you need to pay for one solution. You receive one set up and you install it and it's just in that one machine. It would be ideal if they could offer one subscription where you can connect to different machines with a group subscription."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 41 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 7th in Test Automation Tools with 71 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Apache JMeter, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One, froglogic Squish and Eggplant Test. See our Katalon Studio vs. SmartBear TestComplete report.
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