We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and SmartBear TestComplete 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."The most important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"Katalon Studio's biggest advantage is its price. It's a good tool for the price, albeit with some limitations when you compare it with tools like Tricentis Tosca."
"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."
"The ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"The best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good."
"You can record your actions and play them back later."
"It is a strong automation tool for desktop, browser, and API testing."
"Selenium integration."
"The ability to run a whole suite of tests automatically (which we did overnight)."
"The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them. The are other features that SmartBear TestComplete has but the competition widely has them as well."
"Runs in different remote machines. We have multiple versions of the software being tested."
"TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"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."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"The pricing is the constraint."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to visualize where there is a failure without having to look at it in detail."
"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."
"The way objects are added and used when utilizing descriptive programming could be improved. It is a little unwieldy, compared to UFT."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."
"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."
"If that engine could better identify more XPaths automatically and make the process more flexible, that would be better."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 41 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 7th in Test Automation Tools with 71 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Apache JMeter, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One, froglogic Squish and Eggplant Test. See our Katalon Studio vs. SmartBear TestComplete report.
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