We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Regression Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"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."
"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."
"User-friendly and a good solution."
"The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"Some of the most valuable features of this solution are open-source, they have good support, good community support, and it supports multiple languages whether you use C-Sharp or not. These are some of the most important benefits."
"It supports multiple processes, which is great."
"Selenuim helps us during testing. We are able to reduce the number and frequency of manual efforts by using scripts."
"The most valuable feature of Selenium HQ is the ability to configure a lot of automated processes."
"The solution is free to use."
"Due to its popularity, you can find pretty much any answer in open discussions from the community."
"The solution is very flexible; there are different ways of using it. It's open-source and has a lot of support on offer."
"I have found using IDE and Cucumber framework is good."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"There are some tiny issues with SeleniumHQ. For example, with respect to the scraping tests. Sometimes, a website will have some hidden items or blockages that inhibit us from extracting data directly. It would be beneficial if Selenium could extract that information."
"The solution is open-source, so everyone relies on the community to assist with troubleshooting and information sharing. If there's a complex issue no one has faced, it may take a while to solve the problem."
"Katalon has built a UI on top of Selenium to make it more user-friendly, as well as repository options and the ability to create repositories for objects, among other things. It would be helpful if this type of information could be included in the Selenium tool itself, so people wouldn't have to do filing testing."
"We'd like to see some more image management in future releases."
"In the beginning, we had issues with several test cases failing during regression. Over a period of time, we built our own framework around Selenium which helped us overcome of these issues."
"We use X path for our selectors, and sometimes, it is difficult to create locators for elements. It is very time-consuming because they're embedded deeply. A lot of that comes from the way that you architect your page. If devs are putting the IDs on their elements, it is great, and it allows you to get those elements super fast, but that's not necessarily the case. So, Selenium should be able to get your elements a lot quicker. Currently, it is time-consuming to get your selectors, locate your locators, and get to the elements."
"Selenium Grid set-up is bit complex."
"Selenium uses a layer-based approach that is somewhat slower than Eggplant when it comes to executing code."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Regression Testing Tools with 102 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Subject7. See our Katalon Studio vs. Selenium HQ report.
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