We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"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 is good for API testing. It is also good for continuous integration testing. You can connect it to Jenkins."
"The most valuable feature of Katalon Studio is that everything can be managed from one platform."
"It is a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The solution is easy to learn."
"It is easy for a non-technical person to use and adopt."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications."
"The ability to run a whole suite of tests automatically (which we did overnight)."
"When compared to other tools, it is very simple."
"It is very easy to maintain tests with this tool. It covers all necessary items in the test plan. The most painful item in testing is maintenance. When changes occur, the tests should be maintained."
"The product is stable for what we are currently using it for, and it is sufficient for us."
"Runs in different remote machines. We have multiple versions of the software being tested."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is regression testing tools."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"Katalon lacks integration with other software, including integrating other languages like .NET and PHP."
"The free version of the solution is not user friendly at all."
"I would like to see improvements in how Katalon Studio works with iOS applications, especially with React Native applications."
"We would like to see improved integration with various reporting tools; this would make our testing data more complete."
"What it lacks is the Selenium Grid capabilities."
"One improvement would be if it could support more programming languages such as JavaScript or Python. Right now, it is only on Groovy, which I think is not a too popular language."
"It seems to lack a few requirements that a typical customer would want. Compared to other solutions, this product is lacking."
"SmartBear products generally have a weak link when it comes to integration with other test management tools like Inflectra."
"In SmartBear TestComplete the integration with Jenkins could be easier. Additionally, some of the controls could have better customization options. For example, if a grid is used and it contains multiple controls within it, it can be a checkbox, radio button, or any kind of control, the way the Object Spy is operating currently there is a lot of room for improvement."
"I didn't use it very heavily. One issue that I found was that there wasn't a quick way or a button to move Visual Basic scripts to TestComplete. We have a lot of such scripts in our organization, and it would be very useful to have some option to easily move these scripts. It is currently possible to convert these scripts to TestComplete, but it is not easy. I have to write some code, but everything is not available immediately."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to visualize where there is a failure without having to look at it in detail."
"One notable drawback is the absence of native integration with Git."
"Error handling features in the tool are a little limited."
"The solution needs to extend the possibilities so that we can test on other operating systems, platforms and publications for Android as well as iOS."
"The licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 42 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 7th in Test Automation Tools with 72 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, Testim 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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