We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Sauce Labs 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."It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"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."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"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."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"I like the feature where you can define a model that represents your website and then reuse the components from the model. It makes creating more test cases easy."
"Sauce Lab analytics helped us to get detailed knowledge on test cases execution and logs."
"The abundance of device, platform, and browser combinations/versions that can be used in parallel."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to run concurrent automated tests up to a specified value, depending on what we are currently paying for."
"Testing my app on cloud has really helped us with save time and resources to procure various hardware and software, and set those up."
"The solution they provide is very robust. We can quickly connect to their environment with the hub URL. They have a URL that has the entire grid of desktops, web browsers, and mobile devices. They also provide real devices, so you just provide the URL and test your application."
"Sauce Labs is optimized for automation and integration with the major CI/CD platforms and developer tools. We have an integration with App Center that we're working on. They have a storage API that lets us retrieve APK and IPA, iOS and Android builds off the phone, so that we can continue testing with CI/CD. They integrate with Jenkins, and Jenkins is the main CI/CD."
"They update for the latest browsers and mobile phones and support a lot of combinations. They have 1,000-plus desktop combinations and browser versions, which is really great. We need that at Applause. The all-in-one testing suite aspect of it is really important because most of our clients prefer to go to one place."
"Testing subscription videos for on-demand software, making them better quality and bug free for our customers."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"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."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"Sauce Labs needs to be improved in the different platforms for farm testing, like iOS and Android farm testing and farm testing web browsers."
"Speeds up the time it takes to run end-to-end user interface (UI) tests inside their virtual machines (VMs)."
"We have found that during automated testing this can be very slow. This causes inconsistencies with the tests. It's very difficult to rely on a service when you can't be sure if a test will pass or fail the next time it runs. This means building in a lot of sync time into the tests which in turn slows them down. If this speed could be improved then the service would be much better."
"Integration with Github, as well as several other similar tools, could be improved."
"I would like for there to be more detail in regards to the quality of our code i.e. how many failures occurred, how many passed based on industry standard metrics, etc."
"We encountered minor issues with stability from time to time but Sauce Labs continues to make improvements."
"Another feature that could still be improved on is more error clarity. Sometimes when running automated scripts the test will fail on the device side instead of the script and errors only show a 500 try again message instead of a detailed script that could of a been a timeout error from the code."
"Better and programmatic controls on request/response recordings and sharing with developers."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 42 reviews while Sauce Labs is ranked 13th in Test Automation Tools with 113 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Sauce Labs is rated 8.8. 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 Sauce Labs writes "Robust documentation, helpful support representative, good licensing model". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Sauce Labs is most compared with BrowserStack, Perfecto, LambdaTest, Bitbar and OpenText UFT One. See our Katalon Studio vs. Sauce Labs report.
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