We performed a comparison between Katalon Studio and ReadyAPI 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."Smart Wait and XPath healing are valuable features."
"The automation is very fast and you don't need to be overly proficient in coding."
"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 a good tool and provides all the essential features for our business requirements."
"The recording feature of this product is very valuable for our testing purposes."
"The most valuable features of Katalon Studio are its user-friendliness and the AI smart healing capabilities."
"We are now performing automated testing in 15 minutes, which were previously taking a long time when doing it manually."
"It supports multiple easy-to-learn languages."
"When we are doing API testing we have found it to be very efficient to receive results. Additionally, you are able to do tests directly from the API."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the drag-and-drop options and the integration with versioning tool solutions, such as Git."
"One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration."
"The feature that allows you to import an API collection or a project is valuable."
"It's great for those that don't have as much exposure to programming."
"The great thing about ReadyAPI is that it has a wide variety of functions. You can test any API that you come across. You are not limited to one type of API. It supports many APIs."
"ReadyAPI's best features are that it's user-friendly and its behavior-driven development is flexible."
"It has the ability to combine it with different CI/CD tools."
"My recently-updated Katalon studio version hangs a lot and is not a stable version."
"During parallel execution, some reports are randomly switched."
"I can say that in my company, we struggle a lot with iOS automation."
"The product is comparatively slow."
"One aspect that can be improved is testing for desktop applications. I would like to see them support more technologies in this area."
"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."
"It should start working on Silverlight automation."
"The solution can be further improved with better loading time."
"It is challenging doing upgrades and patches because sometimes the environmental variables or suits in the projects get erased."
"ReadyAPI's customer support isn't that great, particularly their response time."
"ReadyAPI can improve because it is limited to only SOAP and REST services. They should update the solution to include more protocols so that other people are not limited to SOAP and REST services. Other than would be able to utilize it."
"Many users will consider this solution expensive compared to the layout. It is more expensive than other solutions."
"Performance and memory management both need to be improved because other solutions use less memory for the same amount of data."
"If ReadyAPI had more integration with all of the big tools on the market then this would be very useful."
"The solution is made up of multiple tools, and the one additional feature we'd like to have is load testing."
"The content on ReadyAPI in SmartBear Academy is outdated."
Katalon Studio is ranked 3rd in Regression Testing Tools with 41 reviews while ReadyAPI is ranked 7th in Performance Testing Tools with 34 reviews. Katalon Studio is rated 7.8, while ReadyAPI is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Katalon Studio writes "Useful multiple technology platform, scalable, but usability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ReadyAPI writes "Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper". Katalon Studio is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Postman, OpenText UFT One, Testim and froglogic Squish, whereas ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis Tosca, ReadyAPI Test, SmartBear TestComplete and Parasoft SOAtest. See our Katalon Studio vs. ReadyAPI report.
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