We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Visual Studio Test Professional 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."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."
"The initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"The whole suite is made for .NET development."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"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."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"The product must provide more integration."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."
"The interface should be made attractive."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."
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Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One. See our Katalon Studio vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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