We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Postman 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."I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"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."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"We are now performing automated testing in 15 minutes, which were previously taking a long time when doing it manually."
"It is easy for a non-technical person to use and adopt."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is easy to use and user-friendly."
"What is most valuable for me is that we can create and share collections between the team members."
"It is a scalable solution."
"It's user-friendly. Anybody can learn it within five to seven minutes."
"The API testing features are valuable."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like that it is very easy to use. I also like the automation feature."
"The solution collects scenarios and allows for testing SOAP API, REST API and API automation at the same time."
"Object Spy is brittle. When I try to capture objects, I have to proceed multiple times before it works."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"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 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."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"Currently, I'm the only one who can use it because I have a Mac. It is giving a hard time to my team members who are on Linux. My team members are using Linux, and Katalon doesn't support Linux very well. It keeps on crashing. It crashes and shuts down almost every time they save their work, so they are not able to use it. It should have good support for Linux. We don't know what the problem is. If the Katalon team can pick up this issue, it will be very helpful."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"I have recently noticed that, for some reason, I am not able to import collections in JSON. It is weird because I was able to do it before. When you create a new collection and documentation, in tests, you usually have to click Save. If you don't click Save, your collections don't sync with other devices, which is something I don't like. It is not clear for the users in a shared workspace, and I usually forget to click Save and end up losing all the collections that I created. I create a lot of routes, and clicking Save all the time isn't efficient. Instead of clicking Save all the time, there should be an option to save everything in one go."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"Multi-part requests should be handled in the octet-stream."
"We'd like to see some better UI in newer versions."
"Integration should be improved with our continuation system because we use Azure DevOps separately."
"It would be better if we could integrate programming languages like .NET, Java, and JavaScript. It could also be more user-friendly."
"Reporting can be better. If you have bigger APIs, it takes time."
"The solution has some user interface difficulties when conducting environment collections."
Katalon Studio is ranked 5th in API Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Postman is ranked 1st in API Testing Tools with 52 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Postman is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Postman writes "Reliable and easy to expand with a helpful API network". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, OpenText UFT One, Appium, Testim and Ranorex Studio, whereas Postman is most compared with Apache JMeter, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca, Apigee and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. Postman report.
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