KatalonAutomationDemoWeb

This project is test automation of a C# MVC 5 website and C# Web API using Katalon.

Katalon Info:

Katalon supports Keyword-Driven testing

Katalon supports Behavior-Driven (Cucumber) (BDD) testing

Script with Groovy and Java

Uses Selenium, WinAppDriver, and Appium

Build a Test Case with Keywords

Build a Test Suite with Test Cases

Build a Test Suite Collection with Test Suites

Parallel execution of test cases in a test suite

Execute tests with Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Edge

Headless testing is available in Chrome and Firefox

Reporting is available in an HTML format and an CSV (Excel) format

Analysis:

Katalon does a good job of bridging the gap between software automation engineer and manual tester with Keyword-Driven testing.

If a Page-Object Model is used in a Katalon project, it would be working around the functionality that Katalon provides.

Out of the box, I recommend Katalon for teams where manual testers need to be able to automate Web, Desktop, and Mobile applications. However, a team should have one or two software engineers that add custom keywords for the application under test. With custom keywords added, Katalon becomes a solid solution for any functional test automation project.

Image recognition has been added to Katalon Studio as of version 7.2.2, which is great news. Previously, a software engineer on the team would need to add a custom Keyword using OpenCV and Java for image recognition.