We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and ReadyAPI 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 initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"The best feature is the split up between test cases and the test object. This allows us to easily change an error."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"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."
"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 valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"It can create stress tests very fast, and some features help you do it fast."
"It has the ability to combine it with different CI/CD tools."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities."
"Reporting is more robust than other products because test reports can be exported in multiple ways."
"For anyone who does not have experience with automation, ReadyAPI provides a sense of comfort, especially for testers who find it hard to go directly into coding."
"The most valuable feature has been the assertion as a test step as this has allowed us to increase the scope of testing and validation."
"One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration."
"ReadyAPI's best features are that it's user-friendly and its behavior-driven development is flexible."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"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."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"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."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"The solution is made up of multiple tools, and the one additional feature we'd like to have is load testing."
"There are lots of options within the solution, however they are not upfront or user-friendly."
"They have performance testing also. However, it's not that great."
"ReadyAPI could improve by having dynamic validation information."
"ReadyAPI can improve because it is limited to only SOAP and REST services. They should update the solution to include more protocols so that other people are not limited to SOAP and REST services. Other than would be able to utilize it."
"If ReadyAPI had more integration with all of the big tools on the market then this would be very useful."
"The reporting in ReadyAPI could be better. It can become sloppy, sometimes it works and other times it does not."
"The UI should be flexible. Currently, the UI isn't."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews while ReadyAPI is ranked 7th in Performance Testing Tools with 34 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while ReadyAPI is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes " Functional automation features and the recording functionality saves time but the performance and script execution is slow ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ReadyAPI writes "Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and ACCELQ Automate, whereas ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis Tosca, ReadyAPI Test, SmartBear TestComplete and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. ReadyAPI report.
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