I used katalon studio for 3 years and its so amazing.I'm a selenium basic user to make an automate testing, one day i think traditional selenium so hard to implement and unstable when selenium was upgraded.When i meet katalon studio,its like bring me from the dark to light. I can explore my skill more,be more creative and think to create something new. Katalon support all my idea to develop complex automatic testing. Katalon make my vision more clearly about automated testing and how to implement with special project.it because every project has different needs when decided to build automated testing.

Easy to use and merge all needs automated testing in one environment.

its to heavy. i hope it will more light and more faster when run start at first time

Despite I've had to deal with many issues using Katalon Studio, I think it is a great tool with a lot of potentials that need to mature. That's why I bet for Katalon Studio instead of other tools like ReadyAPI.

1- that you can use cucumber scripts along with groovy for automating test cases 2- Katalon Analytics is great

1- you can not open more than one project at a time 2- it's very heavy, it consumes a lot of resources. I think it could be improved in terms of RAM and CPU management. 3- katalon analytics needs more improvement, there are some issues in the UI. 4- the logging motor can be better, right now is very unusual if you run multiple test suites at a time with suite collection and try to watch the logs for each and every test suite, you get lost and it's hard to know even when it finished executing. 5- The Katalon Studio UI (at least mac version) it's complicated to use when you create a Request, it's hard to define the variables and params since the components used are very archaic, some time you think you save (according to the common behavior in most of the tool) but you actually dont and lost all changes. That can be improved. 6- The way Katalon manage the project files etc. it's very complicated to deal with those non-sense files (for end user) and the repos, it generates a lot of conflicts everytime.

Fine. USability A GUI capabilities A Selenium capabilities - B+ QTP capabilities A Framework design and high level automation : don't know Sir.

Wow, 1. Free evaluation licensing, 2. ROI on investment 3. Object repository capaibilities like QTP, totally missing in selenium 4. Frameworks seem to be there, all qa models in software testing have frameworks, you will also get there soon.

Cons: Sorry to say, no market in 50BN US $ Software automation market in 2017 AD. 2. Nobody is giving any certification in Selenium unlike QTP, yet top R&D countries like USA, India, UK, Australia, Israel, Canda, and Japan maybe will go after selenium 3. If a software SDET, QA DEv or automation engineer is looking for an SAP type career it has ended, QTP is no more. For mobile markets open source is pathetic with Appium. Katalon need to be cheap, better than QTP, Selenium and Ranorex, other competitors i think 4. I am a corporate trainer, in Selenium, Manual Testing, SoapUI, Database and Appium. I dont recommend Katalon Studio for freshers unless they are lucky the company is sponsoring training. 5. All IT institutes in India, train in selenium as a testing tool, RPA tools Blue Prism, Uipath etc. How will katalon change its market strategy. Sorry for the bad news.

I was new to my company and I was on a new project. The tool selected by someone else wasn't going to be a fit (Cypress) we need a tool that could do proper E2E testing not a Unit test tool like Cypress. Katalon allowed me to catch up and to get the automation back on track quickly. I found it very easy to use as it was much like the commercial tools I have used for the last 18 years

Ease of Use Similar to the commercial tools I have used Lots of options to create custom code

Object Recognition is a bit clumsy. It needs a spy that will give relative XPath for objects. Currently it gives a full Xpath which is unreliable.