We performed a comparison between Appium and Katalon Studio 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."The best feature of Appium is that it allows you to inspect the element. With the Appium Inspector, you don't have to install another application to do the inspection. I also like that Appium has Android device connectivity. Currently, most people use Appium as automation software, and I haven't found any other tool that's more powerful than Appium."
"Obviously because of automation, it reduces manual testing efforts."
"We develop apps using the React Native framework, and Appium integrates well for testing those apps. The Appium automation framework also has good integration with GitHub Actions and plenty of other tools and frameworks, including BrowserStack."
"Appium provides a record-and-play option, and the commands are the same as those that Selenium uses. So a person who has some exposure to Selenium will be able to write a piece of code in Appium."
"Appium helps me to do as much as much as I want to."
"The library is extensive so the driver interacts with most functions or actions on mobile devices."
"It's an open-source solution with a very large community and available documentation."
"The most valuable features of Appium are the in-built functionality, which we can use in our code. For example, move back, move front, navigate one page before, and navigate one page ahead. You can do this by using the in-built functions from Appium."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"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."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"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."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"Stability is an area that needs some improvement."
"They should add an in-built framework."
"One thing which can be really helpful is that there is some kind of a recorder made available rather than scripting everything."
"If it had more facility for configuration it would be a spectacular solution."
"I rarely use Appium nowadays because I'm now at the managerial level, but the last time I used it, whenever I selected and clicked on an element, Appium was very slow. I tried to debug it, but I still couldn't find the problem, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement lies with the connector and server. For example, the effort to get into the local machine sometimes causes the emulator to become slow, which then leads to failure in testing, and this is the usual issue I've encountered from Appium. An additional feature I'd like added to Appium in its next release is being able to do automation in iOS without using XPath and the name of the element. In Xcode, you can use previous UI tests for detecting elements, but in Appium, you have to use Xpath and the element name instead of being able to directly put the X-UiPath, which is what you can do in Xcode. In iOS as well, sometimes the element doesn't have a name or a path. Sometimes, there's also no element."
"The user interface needs improvement because there are issues when setting up environment variables."
"It needs to accommodate applications that use React.js and AngularJS."
"Support-wise, it could be better."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"The integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"The tool's maintenance is very difficult since they do not follow call by value or call by reference. Due to this, any change happening is not reflected throughout all the test cases. There are some issues with data parameterization as well."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
Appium is ranked 5th in Regression Testing Tools with 25 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews. Appium is rated 8.0, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Appium writes "It's easy to launch applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". Appium is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Perfecto, Xamarin Platform, SmartBear TestComplete and Apache JMeter, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Ranorex Studio. See our Appium vs. Katalon Studio report.
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