We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Functional Tester and Katalon Studio based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, SeleniumHQ and others in Regression Testing Tools."Test automation is most valuable because it saves a lot of time."
"It is compatible with all sorts of Dark Net applications. Its coverage is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the UI component tester."
"IBM Rational Functional Tester is very contextual."
"The most valuable feature is that the browser and the API testing is available in a single tool, and I don't have to look at other options."
"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 product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"One of the features that I like is Object Recognition. It worked very well, and it allowed me to create a dynamic expert based on my requirements."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"If the solution is running on Linux, there are some issues around application compatibility."
"They need to do a complete revamp so that even a non-technical person can manage the tool."
"The latest version has increased load time before testing can be run."
"As many of our products are moving from PC to mobile, the most important thing that this solution needs is mobile app support."
"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."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"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."
"The price of Katalon Studio is an area of concern where improvement is required."
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IBM Rational Functional Tester is ranked 10th in Regression Testing Tools with 8 reviews while Katalon Studio is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 40 reviews. IBM Rational Functional Tester is rated 7.2, while Katalon Studio is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Functional Tester writes "Reliable test automation, and test data creation with efficient support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". IBM Rational Functional Tester is most compared with Selenium HQ, HCL OneTest, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify and OpenText UFT One, whereas Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim.
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