We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Selenium HQ 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.
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"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 best feature is the split up between test cases and the test object. This allows us to easily change an error."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"There are many useful features in Selenium that I like, and of the new features I particularly enjoy the Selenium Grid. With this, we can run many test cases in one go, and in one suite we can extract multiple results."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are the automation of all UI tests, its open-source, reliability, and is supported by Google."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"The most valuable features are the ability to test and debug."
"Our platform runs into several thousand screens and a few thousand test cases, something which would typically take months to test manually. As of today, the entire process takes a little over two days to run."
"What I like the most about this product is that it gives us a lot of freedom to code anything, there is no restriction on the type of function you can do."
"The solution is very easy to use. Once you learn how to do things, it becomes very intuitive and simple."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"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."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"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."
"One drawback to Selenium is that there is nothing like an object repository, such as that found in QTP, especially considering continuous integration practices that have become common nowadays."
"We'd like to see some more image management in future releases."
"For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so."
"Could have additional readability and abstraction."
"The solution does not offer up enough information in regards to personality testing."
"Selenium HQ can be complex. The interface requires a QA engineer or an expert to use it."
"The solution can be improved by providing better reporting logs."
"It would be better if it accommodated non-techy end-users. I think it's still a product for developers. That's why it's not common for end-users, and especially for RPA activities or tasks. It's hard to automate tasks for end-users. If it will be easier, more user-friendly, and so on, perhaps it can be more interesting for this kind of user."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 42 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 103 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Subject7. See our Katalon Studio vs. Selenium HQ report.
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