We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Ranorex 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."Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"It is easy for a non-technical person to use and adopt."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The scalability is very good. It's probably one of the better tools I've seen on the market."
"The solutions's regression testing is very important for our company, as is the continuous integration process."
"The most valuable feature of Ranorex Studio is its user-friendly interface."
"I'm from a UFT background, so Ranorex Studio has a similar feel in terms of how it handles objects. It just felt familiar even though I'd never seen it before. However, it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of UFT, but it's a pretty good start, and it's cost-effective."
"The solution is fast and includes built-in libraries that record and playback."
"Object identification is good."
"The solution is stable."
"The solution is intuitive and pretty self-sustaining. You don't need a lot of help with it in terms of setup or assistance."
"The product’s regression testing time could be reduced."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"The price of the solution is a bit high. It's one of the reasons we decided not to continue using the product."
"Now we are having difficulties in using it and had to limit our automation experts to the features that Katalon allows us to use for free. It was free access and they claimed that it would be free for all time."
"Binding to other sources is very good but the object recognition in .NET desktop applications often doesn't work."
"Other OS Support, Ranorex Spy performance improvement (Especially for Silverlight controls)."
"The automation of the SAP application could perhaps be improved to make it much simpler."
"The object detection functionality needs to be improved."
"There were a lot of issues we faced. One notable improvement would be better API integration within the tool itself, as we still rely on external tools like Postman."
"Ranorex is used in Windows while other solutions, for example, Katalon Studio, are cross-platform. (But in my opinion, overall, Ranorex is better)."
"I would like to be able to customize the data grids. They are currently written in Visual Basic and we are unable to get down to the cell level without hard-code."
"If there are many queries on the web page, Ranorex will not render the page correctly. I had about 1,000 queries on the page, and the solution was not able to handle it."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Ranorex Studio is ranked 7th in Regression Testing Tools with 46 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Ranorex Studio is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ranorex Studio writes "Good data security, allowing local installations to prevent data from going to the internet". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Ranorex Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, SmartBear TestComplete, froglogic Squish, OpenText UFT One and Selenium HQ. See our Katalon Studio vs. Ranorex Studio report.
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