We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Parasoft SOAtest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the features that I like is Object Recognition. It worked very well, and it allowed me to create a dynamic expert based on my requirements."
"The best thing about the solution is that there is a record and playback functionality."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"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 scalability of the product is good."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The most important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"We do a lot of web services testing and REST services testing. That is the focus of this product."
"Automatic testing is the most valuable feature."
"Every imaginable source in the entire world of information technology can be accessed and used."
"We have seen a return on investment."
"They have a feature where they can record traffic and create tests on the report traffic."
"The solution is scalable."
"Good write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored locally."
"Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."
"Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements."
"The summary reports could be improved."
"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"Reporting facilities can be better."
"Parasoft SOAtest has an internal refresh function where you can refresh the software to show the changes you’ve made in your projects. Unfortunately this function does not work properly, because it often does not show the changes after you’ve hit te refresh button a few times."
"Enabling/disabling an optional element of an XML request is only possible if a data source (e.g., Excel sheet) is connected to the test. Otherwise, the option is not available at all in the drop-down menu."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Parasoft SOAtest is ranked 9th in API Testing Tools with 30 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Parasoft SOAtest is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft SOAtest writes "Reliable with a good interface but uses too much memory". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim, whereas Parasoft SOAtest is most compared with Postman, SonarQube, Coverity and Klocwork. See our Katalon Studio vs. Parasoft SOAtest report.
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