Recently I came to know a Tester/Developer friendly Test Automation tool Katalon Studio. I am really impressed with the provided features of Katalon Studio 4.5. I have seen all features which are required for Test Automation. I can say this is a comprehensive Test Automation Tool, a cluster of Selenium, Appium, QTP, SOAPUI for both Web & Mobile Apps testing.
What is Katalon Studio
Katalon Studio is a Free powerful test automation toolset for testers & developers solving many challenges we face in Test Automation. This tool can be used for Functional Testing (Web & Mobile), Webservices Testing as well. Katalon Studio hides all technical complexities and provides us powerful & friendly UI with the manual mode. Tester can simply drag-drop, select built-in keywords and automate test cases with ease. Katalon comes in handy with all necessary software Android SDK, Web drivers to drive browsers, and other required dependencies.
Why should I use Katalon for Test Automation
First of all it is a Freeware. Freely available to the testing community
Easy installation, Configuration is not at all a challenge
Built-in project templates
Record & Playback feature
Limited coding skill required
Built-in object repository,object identification
Fully supports Web, Android, iOS and API testing
Database Testing can be done (Coding skill required)
Supports Java/Groovy languages
Supports Data-driven Testing
Experienced programmers can create and execute sophisticated test scripts.
Can be executed in Chrome, Firefox, IE, Headless Browsers..
Can be integrated with GIT, JIRA, Jenkins, qTest, Teamcity, Kobiton, Slack
Detailed Reporting Structure
Katalon Community Support for questions and updates
Detailed documentation & user manual
Here you can find the comparison of tools with Katalon.
Who don’t love the tool which helps testers with no programming experience to automate their applications just by using recording and built-in keywords to create and execute test scripts easily and faster. I can say this framework is very sophisticated, you can also tag test cases into multiple test suites (sanity, regression). You can import Test Data from your local system or database or you may create data internally within the IDE. We can declare global variables to validate in test cases. Also reports get generated with detailed information (HTML, CSV formats)
I am not only referring to Web Applications, we can use same Katalon IDE to automate Mobile Apps with ease. We just need to install Appium in our machine and configure the path in settings with few clicks. You can simply automate the app using built-in mobile keywords. Anyway Katalon allows you to write custom code depends on your requirement.
I used to buy hours to create a Page Object Model in Selenium. But with Katalon Object Spy a built-in feature which helps us to identify the objects much faster and easier. It’s similar to Object Spy in QTP. Now this is really a time saving feature.
We can also add identified objects to our repository with one click, which needed for reusability, easy maintenance, easy debugging.
I generally use SOAPUI or Custom code in Java to test the API’s, now with Katalon it is so simple to test the API and capture the report in detail. This supports both REST & SOAP.
As I said, this can be integrated with your GIT repository, CI (Jenkins), Test Management tools like Jira, qTest. I believe we can always code to integrate tools like Sikuli, AutoIT which depends on our requirement.
Who doesn’t like it when all these powerful & useful features comes in handy. This is an All-in-one tool. Would you like to try it? You can download it from here. You can always share your opinions/feedback/suggestions by posting a comment
I should thank Katalon Team for bringing this powerful tool as a Freeware to the testing community.
Other References
Katalon vs Selenium
Katalon Documentation
Katalon Tutorials
Filed under: Advanced Selenium Part 1, APPIUM, Test Automation General, Webservices Testing Tagged: API Testing, GROOVY, java, Katalon, MOBILE-AUTOMATION, test automation