Katalon Introduction

Katalon

Recently find free (not open source) automation tool Katalon and love it, personally believe it will be more popular in near future, recommend everyone interested in automation no matter beginner or expert to take a look!  (No pay from Katalon for voluntary :D )

See what Wikipedia says about Katalon:

• "The software is built on top of open-source automation frameworks Selenium, Appium with a specialized IDE interface (implemented on Eclipse) for web, mobile and API testing." 
• "The main scripting language is Groovy, Java, and JavaScript and can be executed against all modern browsers, iOS, and Android applications supported by Selenium and Appium." 
• "Katalon Studio follows the Page Object Model pattern." 
• "The remote execution can be triggered by CI systems via Docker container or command line interface (CLI)."

Cool, right?! One more very important point missed on Wikipedia is the record and play feature. It's normally sale point of commercial automation tool (HP UFT/QTP, IBM RFT, TestComplete etc.). As a starting point or code snippet, it is a great time saving feature.

Object recognition support multiple methods to get job done which make scripts more tolerate to AUT changes, no as good as IBM RFT's but good enough.

For Selenium 1.0 IDE lover, Katalon Automation Recorder Chrome extension is the latest replacement.

Well organised Official Katalon site has all necessary information (docs, forum etc.)

There is a free Udemy course Automate everything with Katalon Studio.