We performed a comparison between Appium and Katalon Studio 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."The solution is stable."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The way Appium server interacts with mobile apps is fantastic. It provides all the information about the elements inside the app, Android as well as iOS. I can interact with the element quickly, just type some text or get some text values from the element - whether it's a drop-down, or web text, or a native element."
"Appium helps me to do as much as much as I want to."
"Appium has easy interaction with mobile."
"It's an open-source solution with a very large community and available documentation."
"The latest versions of the solution are stable."
"Obviously because of automation, it reduces manual testing efforts."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"The functionality of the data is very good. You can upload and disperse data using the solution."
"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."
"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 important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward and easy enough to complete."
"If it had more facility for configuration it would be a spectacular solution."
"Image recognition could be improved. We have some images in our mobile applications. It should be able to run from the cloud, so we can automate the catcher."
"Appium can improve when the case fails, there should be a feature where you can generate the report from Appium. Once you're on a test case, automatically the screenshot should be captured which would avoid manual intervention. These features would be beneficial to migrate to Appium."
"Stability is an area that needs some improvement."
"The initial setup is straightforward if you have previous experience with the solution, but it can be complicated for a novice user."
"Configuration-wise, there is a lot of room for improvement."
"There is always a concern about the amount of code that is required to enhance the automation process. The idea of having less code or no code is what we would like to see in future updates."
"One thing which can be really helpful is that there is some kind of a recorder made available rather than scripting everything."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"During parallel execution, some reports are randomly switched."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes " Functional automation features and the recording functionality saves time but the performance and script execution is slow ". Appium is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Perfecto, Xamarin Platform, Apache JMeter and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Ranorex Studio. See our Appium vs. Katalon Studio report.
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