We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Postman 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."I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"We can write code in Java and it is easy to link to other JARs that we find on the internet, which is very handy."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"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."
"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."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The scalability is good."
"Simple to use and you can easily store your projects."
"It is stable and does not lag."
"The environment variables are a valuable feature because I can easily switch them and see all the developments in different cycles and stages."
"Postman is open-source and free to use."
"Postman helps us to automate the API testing in the team."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"The performance needs to be improved."
"To get this email reporting function, we have to integrate Postman with Newman. If the two are not integrated, we won't be getting all these things in one group."
"The solution is quite complex partly because the UI needs simplification."
"An area that needs some improvement would be to allow multiple windows with different collections to be open at the same time."
"I would like to see improvements in the maintenance of the scripts and their collections. It is really painful that the user cannot drag and drop. It was also painful to create the standard suite of operations for the product. I am not sure if this is improved in the tool’s latest versions. The maintenance of the complex scenarios prompted us to use the solution only for unit testing. In the future, we may switch to the k6 framework."
"The reporting could be better. It should give you a detailed PDF report after you run a test."
"It would be better if we could integrate programming languages like .NET, Java, and JavaScript. It could also be more user-friendly."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Postman is ranked 1st in API Testing Tools with 52 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Postman 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 Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT One, Appium, Testim and Ranorex Studio, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Apigee and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. Postman report.
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