We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Postman based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"The best feature is the split up between test cases and the test object. This allows us to easily change an error."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The product is easy to implement."
"It allowed us to understand the working and performance of the APIs."
"The most valuable feature is that JavaScript can be included as tests."
"Postman is useful for API testing."
"Postman helps to write pre-request scripts and make a collection out of each request. You don’t have to spend time writing or copying the requests. The solution lets you integrate multiple environments and their features. Either the tool’s pro or premium version lets you do the merge and pull request for the Git directly."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Collections."
"The variables part is good. We can easily define the variables and we don't have to manually do a change every time, it gets automatically updated."
"The developers put the API in a common workspace which is a nice feature. It makes things much easier and faster to start testing."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"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."
"Now we are having difficulties in using it and had to limit our automation experts to the features that Katalon allows us to use for free. It was free access and they claimed that it would be free for all time."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"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."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"Postman is a bit more of a complex tool, making it an area where improvements can be made."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"We'd like to see videos or user-friendly reference documentation to help us figure out the solution or troubleshoot issues on our own."
"To get this email reporting function, we have to integrate Postman with Newman. If the two are not integrated, we won't be getting all these things in one group."
"The tool needs to have a reporting feature."
"Postman needs more advanced data-driven testing."
"The pricing should be adjusted for the Pro plan."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Postman is ranked 1st in API Testing Tools with 52 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT One, Testim, Appium and Ranorex Studio, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Apigee and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. Postman report.
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