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Katalon: The Best Selenium Alternative to Optimize Your Test Automation

Elevate efficiency with faster releases, amplified software quality confidence, and a seamless automated testing framework
60%
work hours saved in test creation
2x
web & mobile regression test coverage
80%
reduction in cost associated with test design and maintenance

Katalon vs. Selenium - Which is Better?

Katalon
Selenium
Capabilities
Functional Test AutomationCheck iconCheck icon
Pre-built Keyword based Automation FrameworkCheck iconCheck icon
Automation: AI CapabilitiesCheck iconCheck icon
Low-code ModeCheck iconCheck icon
Application Under TestWeb, Desktop. Mobile, APIWeb
Test Platform: OS SupportedWindow Linux Apple iconCheck icon
Built-in Visual TestingCheck iconCheck icon
Accessibility
Ease of Installation and Use
Install and start trial within just few clicks
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Ease of Set-up
No additional set-up, libraries or custom classes for BDD, DDT, KDT
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Ease of Scripting
Scripting languages supported and their test creation simplicity
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Java, Grovvy
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Java, C#, Perl, Python,
JavaScript, Ruby, PHP
Programming Skills
Requirement for Technical Knowledge and Experience
BeginnerAdvanced
Product Update
Release FrequencyWeekly to Bi-weeklyMonthly to Quarterly
Dedicated Support
FREE versionForum & CommunityCommunity Support
PAID versionDedicated Onboarding ManagerTimes icon
Built-in Integration
CI/CD Systems
eg. Azure DevOps, Github Action, Harness, Circle CI, etc
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Bugs Tracking & Test Management ALMs
eg. Jira, qTest, TestRail, xRay, etc
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Collaboration
eg. Slack, Microsoft Teams, etc
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Built-in Report & Analytics
Extensive Reporting Capabilities
Able to export to JUnit, HTML or CSV formats
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Defect Management
Offer a complete presentation on traceability linked to Jira issues
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Why Katalon is a Better Choice over Selenium

Katalon vs Selenium - Optimal plan for cose efficiency
Katalon vs Selenium - Unified IDE to test all apps
Katalon over Selenium - Intuitive low-code approach
Katalon over Selenium - Robust native integration

Optimal Plan for Cost Efficiency

Mitigate the hidden costs stemming from onboarding and training initiatives, time to build extensible frameworks, considerable maintenance efforts and the potential for technical debts due to the human-prone errors. View plan

Unified IDE to Test All Apps

Access an exhaustive library of web, mobile, API and desktop keywords in one place, without switching between tools for various types of app types.

Intuitive Low-code Approach

Empower both technical and non-technical members to step into QA roles effortlessly with a wide range of features, like record-and-playback, keyword-driven scripting, etc.

Robust Native Integration

Seamlessly fit into your quality and DevOps ecosystem with 50+ out-of-the-box integrations to CI/CD tools, ALM & Test Management, Collaboration, and more.

Our Users' Voice After their Migration

We've switched from Selenium and grown our test automation department with a non-technical manual QA team. Katalon Studio is allowing our manual testers to contribute to the automation effort, while allowing automation testers to utilize their Java skills.
Katalon Studio is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time compared to Selenium with a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing and more.
In our build process, no version goes to production without first going through Katalon. This has definitely improved our general quality and our QA team now spends more time creating Katalon cases than actually manual testing, which is more efficient overall.
Best IDE in the market! I have been solving many problems. It has cross browsing features and mainly it runs on Selenium engine so all test scripts are well organized and understandable.
Katalon Studio is a better solution than Selenium based open source frameworks. Built on the top of Selenium and Appium, Katalon Studio is a free and powerful automated testing tool for web testing, mobile testing, and API testing.
Writing Automation Test Scripts based on Java and Selenium made it easy... Also, compared to Selenium, it is easier to use. There are multiple free tutorials available on the web to learn Katalon Studio. The software itself provides some tutorials to help the users.
Great codeless test automation tool for creating simple, reusable and maintainable test suites… Writing test in standard Selenium code based tools could be problematic for testers without programming experiences.
Alternative for Selenium open source built on top of the open-source Selenium and Appium frameworks, the tool allows testing teams to get started with test automation effortlessly and quickly by reducing the effort and knowledge required to learn and integrate these frameworks.
We've switched from Selenium and grown our test automation department with a non-technical manual QA team. Katalon Studio is allowing our manual testers to contribute to the automation effort, while allowing automation testers to utilize their Java skills.
Katalon Studio is very easy to use. Test cases can be made in very less time compared to Selenium with a lot of other options apart from web UI testing like web service testing, desktop application testing and more.
In our build process, no version goes to production without first going through Katalon. This has definitely improved our general quality and our QA team now spends more time creating Katalon cases than actually manual testing, which is more efficient overall.
Best IDE in the market! I have been solving many problems. It has cross browsing features and mainly it runs on Selenium engine so all test scripts are well organized and understandable.

6 steps To Migrate from Selenium to Katalon

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