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“Customizable TestOps Dashboards Improve Oversight While AI Eases Locator Maintenance”
“Product Allows Easy Use But Struggles With Stability And Core Functionality”
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Katalon is a contemporary platform for quality management that assists quality assurance, DevOps, and software groups in providing high-quality customer experiences with enhanced speed, ease, and efficiency. The platform supports software development from start to end by facilitating the creation, deployment, and understanding of test automation across diverse applications or environments. It can seamlessly integrate with a team's architecture and processes.
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As an admin, the centralized governance over projects, licenses, and execution environments in TestOps is the standout. I can see which scripts are running, who owns them, and which tests are consistently flaky, all in one place. For our automation engineers, the dual self-healing engine is a big deal, as the classic rule-based healing handles simple locator shifts, and when that fails, the LLM-backed AI self-healing kicks in using the page structure and accessibility tree context to recover the element. This layered approach is smart and practical.
user friendly, easy to understand, even beginners can easily handle it. Team to resolve issue is reachable.
Support is readily available when needed
LLM-powered AI self-healing requires extra setup to connect to your own AI model, which is not obvious to new admins and the documentation is still catching up. Also, Katalon Studio releases updates frequently, which is great for features, but means our team gets nagged with upgrade prompts constantly, and some plugin dependencies break on minor version bumps. Tighter backward compatibility would reduce that friction significantly.
Lack of basic functionality and not much clarity on each release of updated version
The UI is not great, settings are scattered around the application (project > settings can be hard to navigate before you are familiar with it). I'm not a fan of the UI in general and I'd rather use the code instead, using the application only for specific tasks. Web drivers updates are also problematic, it mostly fails most of the time at least in my environment. I often need to update it manually whenever there is a release. This is not an issue if you are using their docker image
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- EngineerGov't/PS/EdEducationReview Source
Customizable TestOps Dashboards Improve Oversight While AI Eases Locator Maintenance
I both automate tests daily and manage the platform for our broader QA team. Katalon has genuinely grown into a mature, all-in-one solution. The recent updates brought customizable TestOps dashboards and native release management that I had been requesting for months. AI's self-healing has cut our locator maintenance workload noticeably; we used to dread front-end sprints because they would break half our regression suite. Now, broken locators are flagged, suggested fixes are queued for one-click approval, and we move on. - Engineer1B-10B USDServices (non-Government)Review Source
Strong app support, easy to use, but niche technology
Support for the application is very good. The follow-up for developing solutions is good, but could be improved with clear feedback on the solutions being worked on - IT Associate1B-10B USDHealthcare and BiotechReview Source
Katalon Studio Balances Usability With Scripting Flexibility And Reporting Tools
Katalon Studio offers an excellent balance between usability and flexibility, a very great tool for beginners and advanced automation testers Flexibiliy to use Groovy/Java scripting Smooth integration with CI/CD tools detailed reports - Quality Assurance Engineer<50M USDIT ServicesReview Source
Record and Playback Feature Simplifies Testing Across Multiple Application Types
It is an all-in-one testing tool used over Web/API/mobile/desktop application with the feature of Less code/script less testing option like record and playback and has Unified platform, AI-powered and data driven testing using data from Excel, CSV and databases - Software Development Manager<50M USDReal EstateReview Source
Very capable products, just clean up some of the tech debt.
Overall the experience has been positive. Documentation is good, Product ease of use is good, Sales support is primarily positive. Sometimes it is difficult to get in touch with personnel. Some nagging IDE bugs that never seem to get resolved.