Katalon Studio Reviews

I like it because It's % Free tool and It's very easy to use with an excellent user interface.
It helped me to test some Automation tasks using an Excel spreadsheet and I find it very useful especially the record option because I don't need to code anything I just need to click record and start to do my task from A to Z and after this, I will just put everything into a Loop and all my tasks are fully Automated.
It's very easy to use and I saved a lot of time using it because I don't have much experience as a programmer and to get someone to program an Automation tool for your business is very expensive but, with the Help of Katalon Studio now I have the Knowledge to Automate any simple task I have.
I run some tests on multi browsers and It's very easy to create cross-browser testing and It allows me to do multi API and Web service testing too.
I love when I get real-time reports about the performance of my test so, I can fix the bug without checking everything.
I like the pre-installed templates because for someone with a little knowledge of coding I can just use Katalon templates and they get the work done without any problem.
They have an amazing support team and a lot of blog posts and question answered on their Community website also, I like when they send me a lot of useful tips and tricks by Email weekly and there's a lot of YouTube Videos about this tool and I learned a lot from it too.

They can add more features and integrate with other testing and automation tools because this will help in saving a lot of time.
They can improve their Recorder tool and they can add more Browsers too.

Ease of Use
Similar to the commercial tools I have used
Lots of options to create custom code

Object Recognition is a bit clumsy. It needs a spy that will give relative XPath for objects. Currently it gives a full Xpath which is unreliable.

User friendly UI, support team's response and openness to suggestions, one tool for multiple tasks

It could be more dynamic in terms of recommending error / corrections

With advanced technology, high-quality applications are now inevitable. Manual testing of applications also slows down this rapid process. Considering the different factors such as slowness as well as multi-platform support, cross-browser, responsive design and more, an application's manual test may leave you with unexpected complications and extra efforts.
So what do we do then? Remedy Automation Tests:
Although the automation test may seem to take more time at the beginning, it has proved to be a more effective approach in the long term in terms of both time and resources since the time of the automation solution. In projects that require intensive regression testing, their utility greatly increases. The ability to re-use the established test scenarios by other teammates is also a big plus.
Katalon Studio is a program that you can use to test your Web and Mobile applications. Java-based program can use all the features in a free way. You can start using the program without having any technical knowledge. You can create test cases quickly thanks to the keywords in the program.
One thing I would like to mention is the Cross Platform feature. The script you write is a program that allows you to test Cross Platform (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internel, etc.) without writing additional code. I recommend you to use.The interface is useful, but it has a lot of integration with many systems such as JIRA, GIT, KATALON ANALYSIS BETA. Has a very strong reporting structure.

I don't think it is very useful for web service and API testing.
There may be more browser support.
Sometimes you feel helpless when you get stuck somewhere when you get an error as community help is not that strong.

What I like most about Katalon Studio is that you don't need to have programming experience to begin automating software products. It is in my opinion, the best record and play tool out there for test automation.

It is difficult to use at initial interaction but with regular use of the tool, it gets better. Also, integrating automated tests from Katalon to a CI/CD tool like Jenkins can be a pain and the customer support is not great. You will rely on forums online a lot to sort out the issues you encounter while using the tool. Also, tests are always failing in the headless browser and there isn't enough information to investigate what the problem is.

- The record& playback feature help those QA who doesn't have programming language also can do automation testing.
- The object ID changed, immediately all the test cases using the object will get refresh
- Object capture can let QA to decide how to navigate to the web element, can have multiple selection by ID,Name,Text,Xpath and so on. If we develop by using eclipse only can have 1 locator at the same time.
- Better feature than HP QTP and it's FREE.
-Test data can have multiple option like csv,text,excel
-Nicer report for all the test suite executed
-Allow to import third party library and use it to write the customkeyword in JAVA.
-Attached the custom profile use in test suite collection for different testing purposes.

- A lot of issue found when executed the test in command prompt, because I use Jenkins to trigger the test
- The browser driver not the latest in the market
- Firefox browser not support the latest in the market.
- Although I didn't pay for the support but I hope Katalon team can support /fix the stopper issue raised in the forum within short period.

Was able to automate most of the manual testing work using Katalon studio. Thus saving time and efforts and putting those to use in more productive work.

The experience was great working on Katalon studio. The frequent updates of the software, the added enhancements every now and then are perfect. Quicker responses is what one can expect. Coming to the tool, its a great tool to work with. To sum up its a great tool which we can employ without any cost to pay for.

It crashed many times without saving the changes I did.
Katalon community can be improved.
I strongly felt that it should have a revamped User Experience, in terms of color schemes, ease of use and more shortcut keys to be included.
Coming to the technical functionalities in the tool, sometimes while after including certain files from a particular folder, it doesn't appear there directly.
We have to refresh the tool. It would be great if the tool had some auto-refresh feature.
Sometimes while saving an Object Repository file, even if I save file, I am not able to save file and the changes are lost.
I feel that improvements can be made on architecture level to sort out all these issues.
The tool should be asset light, means should be able to work on minimum computing requirements.

Powerful tool but easy to use and simple to deploy
Open Source Tool
Single tool provides features to perform Web UI, Mobile and API automation
Supports Page Object Modal
Provides Object Spy feature
Provides cross browser testing
It has both manual and script mode
It has many pre-defined methods which helps the manual testers to create automation scripts
Releases feature updates frequently
Provides integration with various 3rd party tools like TestRail, qTest, Git, Jenkins
Provides great reports.

Paid support
Frequent feature release takes time for installation everytime

- As the title suggests, Katalon is very easy-to-use. The UI is very intuitive to use and therefor it doesn't take much time to get started.
- Katalon comes with a lot of built-in features like a test recorder, that saves your interaction with a given UI-Interface and creates a test case out of it or a very nice way to save GUI elements and to organize test data via built-in databases.
- Katalon is also very easy to use by non-programmers and therefor also a powerful tool for manual testers, to automate repetitive and boring tests. Nevertheless the quality of ones katalon repository will be much higher, when a experienced coder is working with it - but I would even consider this as "criticism", as other tools lack of user-friendly-interface for non-coders completely.
- Katalon get's updated frequently and therefor grows in it's features - they just enabled the feature to share custom keywords, which is amazing!
- The active community is very helpful and nice and the developers communicate with them a lot and takes inspiration by them.

- It's fairly young and therefor lacks of features like distributed testing (it still gets a lot of updates).
- I had some performance issues with 4K monitors - the tree that is generated when executing a test takes a lot of performance.
- The GUI repository is file based -> That means it will throw errors, if the file structure gets too long...

Record and Spy, script parametrization and variables make it easy to maintain and update test cases.

Im not in dislike of any of the features about Katalon Studio, what i do think it would be better is the fact that some features that where originally free, now they are only available for enterprise version, so for long term users (like me) some features that i used some projects ago, now they are not available for free.

It is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time. offers a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing etc.

the only con is that they release new version every 15 days, it becomes a problem to stick with one version as there are many bug fixes and new feature update.

Katalon have good feature of record and play back which avoids script for the tester.
It is keyword driven testing tool.
Recently, Katalon launch plugin feature which is very great to have to it as plugin replaced some of the keyword written by our team.
Also, anyone can use this tool like technical and non-technical member.

Windows testing is not available in Katalon.
Sometime tool behaved unexpected like test cases fails and at same time some test cases get pass.
Not stable tool.