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."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."
"The tool is easy to use. The product gives me the flexibility to use Selenium. I can also use my Java capabilities in the solution."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"The functionality of the data is very good. You can upload and disperse data using the solution."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"The initial setup of ReadyAPI is straightforward."
"ReadyAPI's best features are user-friendliness, smooth integration with Postman, the speed of creating test cases, and integration with customer data."
"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."
"The dashboards are very good and consolidate all of the tests that you are performing with the client."
"The interface is ok and they have the ability to re-load tests so that you can reuse them."
"The great thing about ReadyAPI is that it has a wide variety of functions. You can test any API that you come across. You are not limited to one type of API. It supports many APIs."
"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 Excel sheet feature is good."
"Katalon Studio could improve having visual testing, but I think they're launching that feature very soon. We would like to see an increase in the usage of AI."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"The overall scope of this solution is limited and could be improved."
"I would like to see a better dashboard for monitoring in the next release of this solution."
"Can be improved by including an inherent feature for UI automation."
"The solution is made up of multiple tools, and the one additional feature we'd like to have is load testing."
"The Property Transfer capability could be more user friendly because it is a bit difficult to understand."
"It is challenging doing upgrades and patches because sometimes the environmental variables or suits in the projects get erased."
"The performance in some cases needs improvement. Sometimes it requires too many resources."
"What needs improvement in ReadyAPI is its load testing feature because there was a hiccup when my team performed some load testing on the tool. My team had meetings with the ReadyAPI team and tried to get that issue fixed, but it still hasn't improved. This is a shortcoming of the tool, especially when you compare it with HP LoadRunner."
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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