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 recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"The solution is great as a record and playback tool. It also has valuable regression testing."
"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications."
"Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution."
"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."
"The ability to run a whole suite of tests automatically (which we did overnight)."
"The initial setup is pretty easy and it's quick to deploy."
"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"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."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"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."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."
"It is very hard to read the test log generated by TestComplete Executor if the log file is very big. TestComplete Executor is a small tool for just running the TestComplete test framework (not for developing)."
"The initial setup of SmartBear TestComplete was complex."
"Right now, the product only supports Windows."
"Right now, when you buy the solution, you need to pay for one solution. You receive one set up and you install it and it's just in that one machine. It would be ideal if they could offer one subscription where you can connect to different machines with a group subscription."
"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 licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
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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