We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and OpenText UFT Developer 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."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 solution is easy to learn."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"The scalability of the product is good."
"The basic framework and project organization is very good."
"I rate Katalon Studio's scalability a four out of five."
"Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"It is easy for a non-technical person to use and adopt."
"There are many good things. Like it is intuitive and scripting was easy. Plus the availability of experienced resources in India due to its market leadership."
"The recording feature is quite good as it helps us to find out how things are working."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the number of plugins for object recognition. The predefined libraries allow us to automate tasks."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"The most valuable feature for me is the number of protocols that can be tested. It not only tests Web, but also SAP, Siebel, .Net, and even pdf."
"It's a complete pursuit and it's a logical pursuit working with HPE."
"The most valuable features are the object repository."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus UFT Developer is the flexibility to work with many different types of software."
"I've seen that our clients are not truly aware of the power behind Katalon."
"It is difficult to identify elements on websites that use Angular or ReactJS because they don't have an option to view source code."
"The Object Spy is rather frustrating to work with, so I tend not to use it."
"Support options need improvement. It is sometimes hard to find a solution to any given problem, thus you are forced to use another solution."
"During parallel execution, some reports are randomly switched."
"We have been seeing some error pop-ups that are difficult to understand why they were triggered."
"It would be helpful to have an automatic save feature."
"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 support from Micro Focus needs a lot of improvement."
"The product has shown no development over the past 10 or 15 years."
"Easier connectivity and integration with SAP would be helpful."
"Object definition and recognition need improvement, especially with calendar controls. I faced challenges with schedulers and calendars."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different cloud-based tools such as Azure."
"UFT Developer is good, but it requires high-level development skills. Scripting is something that everybody should know to be able to work with this product. Currently, it is very development intensive, and you need to know various scripting languages. It would be good if the development effort could be cut short, and it can be scriptless like Tosca. It will help in more adoption because not every team has people with a software engineering background. If it is scriptless, the analysts who wear multiple hats and come from different backgrounds can also use it in a friendly manner. It is also quite expensive."
"It would be improved by adding a drag-and-drop interface to help alleviate the coding."
"The parallel execution of the tests needs improvement. When we are running tests in LeanFT, there are some limitations in terms of running the same tests simultaneously across different browsers. If I'm running a test, let's say to log in, I should be able to execute it through IE, through Microsoft Edge, through Chrome, through Mozilla, etc. This capability doesn't exist in LeanFT. Parallel execution of the test cases across different browsers need to be added."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Test Automation Tools with 41 reviews while OpenText UFT Developer is ranked 15th in Test Automation Tools with 34 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while OpenText UFT Developer is rated 7.4. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText UFT Developer writes "Integrates well, has LeanFT library, and good object detection ". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and Appium, whereas OpenText UFT Developer is most compared with OpenText UFT One, Tricentis Tosca, OpenText Silk Test and froglogic Squish. See our Katalon Studio vs. OpenText UFT Developer report.
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