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“May Katalon be with you whenever you run your tests.”
So you’ve heard of Katalon and decided to give it a try. We’re here to help you get the best experience possible out of it.
In a way, Katalon serves as your entire software testing life cycle unified in one workspace. You get to do test planning, scripting (from no-code, low-code, to full-code mode), test management, test execution, and finally test reporting.
Katalon Studio is where you get to do all of those things, and it is available in two editions: Katalon Studio (KS) Free and Katalon Studio Enterprise (KSE).
Curious about the differences? Check out our comparison table below:
Capability | Katalon Studio Free | Katalon Studio Enterprise |
All-in-one testing 🛠️ | ✅ Supports: - Record and Playback on mobile, web, and desktop - Ready-to-use keyword library for keyword-driven testing on web, desktop, mobile, API - Manual scripting mode to write and/or edit tests you crafted using the Record and Playback mode or Keyword library - API testing - Schema compliance validation (JSON, XML, GraphQL) - GraphQL testing | ✅ Everything from KS Free, plus: a) Web testing - Record and Playback with debugging options - Option to add custom keywords to the keyword library - Self-healing broken locators - Smart locator to enhance the accuracy of web element identification - Option to define if XPath, attributes, or CSS is the default web locator when using Record and Spy - Image-based testing to test image objects regardless of changing underlying structures b) API testing - OpenAPI specifications import - SSL client certificate - Customized API request methods alongside standard HTTP methods - Option to limit connection timeout and response maximum size to improve performance |
Data-driven testing
📊 | ✅ Supports:
- Data-driven testing on Excel, CSV, PostgreSQL, MySQL | ✅ Everything in KS Free, plus: - Allows for Oracle SQL and SQL Server input values - Reads values from multiple data files - Reads values from other databases that have JDBC drivers - Data-driven testing at test case level - Data-driven testing at test suite level - Takes snapshot of tests |
Test execution
⚙️ | ✅ Supports: - Local and headless test execution on popular desktop browsers, mobile browsers, and operating systems - Smart Wait to tackle Selenium wait times - Parallel execution
| ✅ Everything in KS Free, plus: - Execution scheduling - Failed test retries ✨ Advanced execution: a) Katalon Runtime Engine You can run tests in the following environments with KRE: - Command-Line Interface. - CI Server: Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity. - Cloud CI: CircleCI, Azure DevOps, BitBucket, GitLab, GitHub Action, WS CodeBuild, BuildKite, Circle CI, CodeShip, TravisCI. - Katalon Docker Image. - Cloud-based app testing infrastructure: Microsoft App Center Tests, AWS Device Farm. b) Katalon TestCloud Katalon TestCloud provides you with a wide range of real mobile devices, OS, browsers to execute tests on-cloud. Learn more about Katalon TestCloud here. |
Test case management
🗂️ |
| ✅ Supports: - Test case tags for categorization - Test object refactoring to organize Object Repository |
Test reporting
📄
| ✅ Supports: - HTML, PDF, CSV, JUnit reports - Advanced test reporting with analytics and visualization - Screenshots - Videos for browser with GUI - Time Capsule (HTML snapshot that restores the state of AUT when tests fail)
| ✅ Supports everything in KS Free, plus: - Diagnose test failures with videos when test run and fail on a headless browser - View previous reports of test suite and test suite collection executions in Katalon Studio - View and share test suite collection report in JUnit format - Notify you and your colleagues of the test suite collection report by email - Improve your efficiency and performance with a shortened execution log |
AI-powered testing
✨ |
| ✅ Supports: - StudioAssist to generate code and explain code within Katalon Studio |
Integration
🔗 |
| ✅ Integrates with: - ALM tools (JIRA, Katalon TestOps, Azure Test Plans, qTest, TestRail, TestLink, Rally, TestOps Private Instance) to push and pull test artifacts, and test result information between Katalon Studio and the ALM tool. - Cloud Provider: Kobiton, Sauce Labs - Git-based source code management (SCM): GitHub, GitLab, Azure Repos, BitBucket, etc. |
No matter what edition you chose, your data is always protected by an enterprise-grade security system for maximum confidentiality.
