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 tool is easy to use. The product gives me the flexibility to use Selenium. I can also use my Java capabilities in the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is visual testing. It compares the look and feel of an application which is useful."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"The most important feature is the Jenkins integration; it is pretty straight forward and allows us to run nightly builds."
"It's cross platform automation capabilities specially ranging across web, UNIX (via putty), and other systems."
"Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution."
"In TestComplete, I saw a conformed package of a tool that kept everybody in consistency. The team was able to regenerate further tests without having to manipulate more code because the record feature is great."
"Selenium integration."
"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."
"It allows us to test both desktop and web applications."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its ability to integrate with Azure DevOps for continuous integration and deployment."
"It is very easy to maintain tests with this tool. It covers all necessary items in the test plan. The most painful item in testing is maintenance. When changes occur, the tests should be maintained."
"Katalon Studio should improve its usability, it still needs some improvement where users can easily use it to build their automation suite. It requires some initial work to set it up. There should be more keywords in the library to limit the coding requirements, this will allow a non-technical person easily start using it, which would be better."
"Currently, I'm the only one who can use it because I have a Mac. It is giving a hard time to my team members who are on Linux. My team members are using Linux, and Katalon doesn't support Linux very well. It keeps on crashing. It crashes and shuts down almost every time they save their work, so they are not able to use it. It should have good support for Linux. We don't know what the problem is. If the Katalon team can pick up this issue, it will be very helpful."
"During parallel execution, some reports are randomly switched."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"There is not much support offered for the free version, which is something that could be improved."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."
"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."
"In the cross-browser domain, it has a few snags with Microsoft Edge and Chrome; although, these problems are not critical."
"Error handling features in the tool are a little limited."
"Right now, the product only supports Windows."
"The artificial intelligence needs to be improved."
"One notable drawback is the absence of native integration with Git."
"The test object repository needs to be improved. The hierarchy and the way we identify the objects in different applications, irrespective of technology, needs adjustments. The located and test objects are not as flexible compared to other commercial tools."
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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