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"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."
"Video capture on failure is a must have. A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a thousand pictures (literally)."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"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."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"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."
"The ability to develop scripts in Visual Studio, Visual Studio integration, is the most valuable feature."
"The statistics that are available are very good."
"The major thing it has helped with is to reduce the workload on testing activities."
"A good automation tool that supports SAP functional testing."
"Scripting is the most valuable. We are able to record and then go in and modify the script that it creates. It has a lot of generative scripts."
"The scalability of the solution is quite good. You can easily expand the product if you need to."
"The feature I like most is the ease of reporting."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"The solution has a lack of compatibility with newer technologies."
"We moved to Ranorex because the solution did not easily scale, and we could not find good and short term third-party help. We needed to have a bigger pool of third-party contractors that we could draw on for specific implementations. Silk didn't have that, and we found what we needed for Ranorex here in the Houston area. It would be good if there is more community support. I don't know if Silk runs a user conference once a year and how they set up partners. We need to be able to talk to somebody more than just on the phone. It really comes right down to that. The generated automated script was highly dependent upon screen position and other keys that were not as robust as we wanted. We found the automated script generated by Ranorex and the other key information about a specific data point to be more robust. It handled the transition better when we moved from computer to computer and from one size of the application to the other size. When we restarted Silk, we typically had to recalibrate screen elements within the script. Ranorex also has some of these same issues, but when we restart, it typically is faster, which is important."
"They should extend some of the functions that are a bit clunky and improve the integration."
"The pricing is an issue, the program is very expensive. That is something that can improve."
"The support for automation with iOS applications can be better."
"Could be more user-friendly on the installation and configuration side."
"Everything is very manual. It's up to us to find out exactly what the issues are."
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Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while OpenText Silk Test is ranked 13th in Regression Testing Tools. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while OpenText Silk Test 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 OpenText Silk Test writes "Stable, with good statistics and detailed reporting available". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim, whereas OpenText Silk Test is most compared with Selenium HQ, OpenText UFT One, OpenText UFT Developer and Apache JMeter.
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