Introduction
The Katalon studio is a closed-source test automation platform for websites, mobile applications, and APIs testing. It comes with a variety of new features. In contrast, the postman is an open-source test automation platform for REST APIs. Postman is an API development environment used by more than seven million developers today.
With Postman, we can design, mock, debug, automate testing, document, monitor, and publish APIs simultaneously. Let us now look at the key differences between the postman and the Katalon studio.
Difference between the Katalon studio and Postman
Let us see the differences between the Katalon studio and Postman based on different parameters.
Use case
The Katalon studio is used for end-to-end automated testing for web services, mobile applications, and all APIs. It also offers other features, including the Katalon run time engine, Katalon TestOps, and the Katalon recorder.
While Postman is one of the most user-friendly REST API testing platforms, it can be used either as a browser extension or an application to test REST APIs.
Origin
The Katalon studio was developed by Katalon Inc in January 2015 for internal testing, and Later, in September 2016, it was released to the public.
The Postman was developed in 2012 by a software engineer named Abhinav ashtana, the CEO of the company Postman Inc. It all started with a chrome browser extension, which later turned out to be a market for more than twenty million users worldwide in the form of a user-friendly application.
Integrations
We can integrate the Katalon studio with software like Jira, Jenkins, Git, Slack, and Microsoft teams, and the Postman can be integrated with software like GitHub, Dropbox, Keen, BigPanda, etc.
Pricing
The Katalon studio comes in both the free version and paid version. Similarly, the postman free versions and free trials are available in the market, and along with that, it charges approx twelve dollars per month for the Postman Pro membership.
Platforms supported
The Katalon studio works well with the Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems, while the Postman does not work in Linux environments.
Programming Language
The Katalon studio was built in Java and Groovy, but the Postman was developed in Javascript.
Let us refer to the following table to give you a better understanding of the differences between the postman and the katalon studio.
Let us now see some of the disadvantages and advantages of Postman and the Katalon studio.
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