Hello Everyone, :)
In this article, I will talk about what we can do with Katalon Studio, the new star of the test automation world.
The first version of Katalon Studio, which is an open source product and can run cross platform, was published in 2015. In addition, Katalon Studio Enterprise (KSE) product was launched in 2019 with its 7th version.
You can test your Web, Mobile and Desktop (latest version 7.0) applications, as well as use it in your test automation processes of your backend services. Thus, you can manage your test processes in a hybrid way on a single platform. You can easily integrate the scripts you have prepared into your CI / CD processes, thus automating your software quality processes.
It is a Java based application.
The scripts prepared without writing an additional script can be run separately or simultaneously in many browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge.
Record&Play özelliği sayesinde script yazma konusunda bilgi sahibi olmadan da süreçler kolayca hazılanabilmektedir.
Thanks to the Record & Play feature, processes can be prepared easily without having any knowledge about writing scripts.
With the Slack integration, real-time feedback and communication between team members can be achieved.
You can enable git integration for source control.
You can start the application by running the run file without any installation, and you can start using it quickly with the keywords contained in it. (Application download link). Many of its features are free and paid features have begun to be used in new versions.
Katalon Studio consists of numerous utilities such as built-in keywords, custom keywords, objects spying and recording, and code refactoring that facilitates your code process.
It runs with the Page Object Model (POM) design model, which aims to improve test maintenance and eliminate code repetition.
It uses the selenium library for web automation and the appium library for mobile automation in the background.
For test data, it provides a data file object that can query data from external sources such as CSV file, excel file, relational database.
Katalon Studio offers BDD testing capability with files with .feature extension.
Test record is an essential feature in test automation. Katalon Studio captures all activities in the application and converts them into executable code that can be replayed in the background. The list of test objects exported immediately after each test execution reduces the time and effort spent defining them. With this record feature, Katalon Studio also supports running on multiple browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
Katalon Studio uses Grid - TestOps Cloud to run tests entirely on the cloud and automatically present the results to Katalon Analytics. The Katalon Analytics is an artificial intelligence supported platform that provides users with detailed dashboards and reports about test executions.
Katalon has provided an end-to-end, multi-functional and easy-to-use solution that fits to users of all test levels and has taken its place in the market in a short time.
See you in my next post :)
