We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and OpenText UFT Developer 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 product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"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 ability to build all libraries with codes and use them in many situations has been most valuable."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"I like the feature where you can define a model that represents your website and then reuse the components from the model. It makes creating more test cases easy."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"The most valuable feature is its automation security capabilities."
"One of the important features, which speeds up the automation testing development with LeanFT, is its object repository functions. Object identification are the most time-consuming aspect of building automation tests. LeanFT gives that out of the box. It helps you identify the objects and after that, once you got the object in place, then it's just about building the test scripts. So it reduces your development time significantly."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus UFT Developer is the flexibility to work with many different types of software."
"The solution is very scalable."
"The solution helps to accelerate software testing automation. It will help to reduce lead time and increase productivity and efficiency."
"One aspect that I like about Micro Focus UFT Developer is the ability to integrate it into a testing framework as a library."
"It's a complete pursuit and it's a logical pursuit working with HPE."
"The most valuable feature for UFT is the ability to test a desktop application."
"The most valuable feature is the automation of test cases."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"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."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"I have to keep the remote machine open while the tests are running, otherwise, it leads to instability."
"Easier connectivity and integration with SAP would be helpful."
"The support from Micro Focus needs a lot of improvement."
"Integration with other tools can become a costly exercise."
"The tool could be a little easier."
"Object definition and recognition need improvement, especially with calendar controls. I faced challenges with schedulers and calendars."
"The product has shown no development over the past 10 or 15 years."
"It is unstable, expensive, inflexible, and has poor support."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 41 reviews while OpenText UFT Developer is ranked 14th in Test Automation Tools with 34 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while OpenText UFT Developer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText UFT Developer writes "Integrates well, has LeanFT library, and good object detection ". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim, whereas OpenText UFT Developer is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Tricentis Tosca, OpenText Silk Test, froglogic Squish and Automai AppLoader. See our Katalon Studio vs. OpenText UFT Developer report.
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