We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and SmartBear TestComplete 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."The product provides ease of automation for the cloud."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"One of the features that I like is Object Recognition. It worked very well, and it allowed me to create a dynamic expert based on my requirements."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward and easy enough to complete."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"This is a product that is well ahead of its immediate competition in features and functionality."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"This solution is very user-friendly to learn and implement, and less technical knowledge is required to handle automation."
"When compared to other tools, it is very simple."
"TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications."
"The database checkpoints detect problems which are difficult for a human resource to find."
"The product has many features."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is regression testing tools."
"Recording and playback of tests were easier with SmartBear TestComplete...It is a scalable solution."
"Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution."
"The solution has a very nice interface."
"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."
"We have had some issues when it comes to stability, which is something that needs to be improved."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"Katalon Studio's pricing is expensive."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."
"Right now, the product only supports Windows."
"The licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."
"SmartBear products generally have a weak link when it comes to integration with other test management tools like Inflectra."
"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."
"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."
"Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 6th in Regression Testing Tools with 70 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestComplete 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 SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Apache JMeter, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One, froglogic Squish and Eggplant Test. See our Katalon Studio vs. SmartBear TestComplete report.
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