We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Parasoft SOAtest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The initial setup of Katalon Studio was easy."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"Whenever I speak to the support team of Katalon Studio, I learn that some new features will be included in the product. It is a scalable product."
"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."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is the ease of use of the solution."
"Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports."
"We have seen a return on investment."
"The solution is scalable."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"Katalon Studio could improve having visual testing, but I think they're launching that feature very soon. We would like to see an increase in the usage of AI."
"The product’s regression testing time could be reduced."
"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 integration process with Jira should be enhanced and facilitated."
"Its stability needs improvement."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"The tool's maintenance is very difficult since they do not follow call by value or call by reference. Due to this, any change happening is not reflected throughout all the test cases. There are some issues with data parameterization as well."
"UI testing should be more in-depth."
"The summary reports could be improved."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 16 reviews while Parasoft SOAtest is ranked 9th in API Testing Tools with 4 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.4, while Parasoft SOAtest is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "An install tool useful to fasten automation of test cases". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft SOAtest writes "Easy to use and understand with multiple types of testing on offer". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, SmartBear TestComplete and Ranorex Studio, whereas Parasoft SOAtest is most compared with Postman, SonarQube, Coverity and Tricentis Tosca. See our Katalon Studio vs. Parasoft SOAtest report.
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