Katalon Tutorial 02: Installing Katalon Studio

Installing Katalon Studio is very easy, we don’t need to download any jar or driver files. We just need to download a .zip file. It is similar to eclipse IDE installation.

• Go to https://www.katalon.com/ and click on the download button.
• Sign up with Katalon. A recommended version will be suggested, choose 32 bit or 64 bit based on your machine and start downloading the tool.
• Unzip the zip file and double click on the ‘katalon.exe’ to launch the IDE.
• Then you will be asked to activate the product, enter credentials you have used while signing up. And then click on the Activate button.
• The Katalon Studio IDE looks as below

Thanks for reading, please comment your suggestion or queries for this post.
#HappyTesting #QABABU

Advantages of Katalon Studio, Should I learn?

Katalon Studio is a free automation tool that is buitl on Selenium and Appium with amazing automation features. Katalon came up with solutions to the challenges that we have been facing with Selenium/Appium based open source automation frameworks. Some of the challenges listed below:

• Choosing a right framework/tool based on application technology
• Need technical experts in designing the framework
• Need to write own code to implement features like Data Driven, Parallel Testing, Cross Browser Testing and etc.
• Need to download or update the many Jar and Driver files
• Locating the objects is time consuming, need to write xpaths or css selectors
• Need to write all the Custom Keywords
• Need to implement own reporting and logging systems