We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and SmartBear TestLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Katalon Studio and others in Regression Testing Tools."Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"We can write code in Java and it is easy to link to other JARs that we find on the internet, which is very handy."
"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."
"It is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"I personally like the 'Object Spy' feature of this tool. It makes it easy to find an element on the web page."
"Our clients have requested by all types of testing, including mobile, desktop, and API testing and all of those are covered by Katalon. I find that very valuable, very complete."
"It provides us daily feedback on the status (failing/working) of the core features of our websites."
"The most valuable features are test executor and development."
"It would be helpful if they can integrate a feature for performance testing."
"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."
"The product’s regression testing time could be reduced."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"There could potentially be more reporting within the solution. We need more issue reports, for example."
"They need to work on documentation to make it more centralized and easier to find what you are looking for."
"Object Spy is brittle. When I try to capture objects, I have to proceed multiple times before it works."
"Katalon doesn't support testing of hybrid applications. It's a limitation."
"TestLeft captures a lot of space in terms of memory, which is one issue that can be improved."
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Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while SmartBear TestLeft is ranked 32nd in Functional Testing Tools. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestLeft is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestLeft writes "Simple to set up and the test execute feature is helpful, but the cost could be reduced". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Appium and Testim, whereas SmartBear TestLeft is most compared with SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis Tosca.
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