Katalon Studio Tutorial Part 1 - Setup, Install and Run Script using Katalon

This video will guide you how to Setup, Install and Run Script using Katalon.
This complete Katalon Studio Tutorial series will guide how to create, maintain, execute your Selenium test using Katalon.
Katalon automates Web application, Mobile Application and Web Services (API Testing).
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[@kennethpatierno4922]

I really appreciate this tutorial, very well done and easy to understand. You saved me quite a few hours of research and fumbling around, thank you Mukesh!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Great Kenneth 😊 you can also try few more tools like AutoIt for windows automation. Glad to read from you.

[@muthuvel2390]

Hi Mukesh, Thank you so much for this video, I have learned lot of things from your videos watched and iam the big fan of your teaching style .pls keep posting katalon related videos in detailed.

[@mp8900816]

Thanks for your videos, Mukesh. It's very useful for me to get familiar with this tool.

[@_RUiSU]

Great teaching. Every explanation is concise but informative.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Louis,Glad it was helpful!

[@TheUkr1244]

Hi Mukesh, If we have dropdowns with same names in backend and visible dropdowns values are unique, depended on previous selection. Facing issue to select right one. In Katalon missing "select option by visible text". Any alternate please help

[@abhishekbehera1992]

I am having issues finding and recording events in IE browser for the Katalon recorder. Did anyone has any solution or recommendations. I also have tried all the process as mentioned in the Katalon resources towards IE configurations for Katalon, but I am still unable to record the steps in IE. Works fine on Chrome though.

[@manekagayomi9079]

Hi Mukesh, I want to do the UI automation using Katalon Studio but the web application used extjs.Because ID's are dynamically generating I couldn't find the objects in next time.can we use label nams any unique attribute to recognize the objects in Katalon ? Or else is there any other opensorce UI automation tool which support extjs?

[@pallishreesenapati7452]

such a cool tool and nicely explained. I am totally impressed

[@johnwest5644]

Hi Mukesh, great video. Would love to see videos on using Katalon for testing the following: 1.Web Services. 2. Data Driven Testing. 3. MySQL backend testing. 4. Integration with Jenkins for CI.

[@meetamalhotra1976]

Hi Mukesh, Your video helped me allot. Thank you so much for uploading this video. Waiting for Part 2.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Meeta :) Will upload soon. Check out katalon recorder as well. I found it usefull. kzbin.info/www/bejne/naXMh6lnnKhppZY&list=PL6flErFppaj0PgYaMVlxfCUJXT33oPlvJ

[@fariaislam1799]

Why I am getting Activation alert box everytime I open Katalon? I have activated it once do I need to do it everytime?

[@hima3867]

Hello I downloaded Katalon 5.8.6 why there is no Record Web/ Spy web such tools not available in that??

[@kushanchoudhury1942]

Hi Mukesh, Please tell me whats the default version of firefox that can be used to automate the OrangeHRM url.I was getting some error and i am using 43 version of firefox.

[@brandonhu8359]

May I know if Katalon supports handling applet prompts from legacy sites?

[@tejkumarkempaiah4906]

Thanks for the video, The latest version of katalon 7.0.3 is missing report feature version.. Any suggestion on it?

[@1112aless]

Can this tool be used to test desktop application that is written in C# and web application that uses PHP?

[@AbhishekVerma-fs6bs]

Thanks Mukesh. Very good video to kick start Katalon tool. I will surly give try this tool.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Abhishek :)

[@CezaryDanielNowak]

Can't wait for part 2 :-)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks, Daniel will be uploading in 2-3 days.

[@sunayanisvalkeri5702]

Hi Mukesh, I have tried installing the Katalon studio several times but whenever I installed I am getting an error as "Currently you have no teams to work on"

[@ankitagopal87]

Hi Mukesh,Thanks for such a descriptive video! My query is regarding Katalon's execution speed.I have been using the tool for a week now and was able to run all the scripts pretty smoothly and good speed. Unexpectedly now all the scripts are executing slow even the previous one's.How to handle this?

[@dilawarkhan4085]

my test case failed, same login test case as you performed in the tutorial, what could the reason?

[@santooveluri7128]

Hi Mukesh.. Does Katalon support PDF comparison and quote the differences along with the text and alignment of PDF's

[@y.c.breddy3153]

Can I use katalon studio for functional automation testing and API automation testing

[@srinivasareddyyasa9247]

Nice demo. Thank you

[@deepikadeepika2397]

Hi mukesh i want to enter the alphabet key in the keyboard for a particular menu how can be doe please let me know

[@letaciogalvao9908]

You are truelly awsome man! Thanks a lot!

[@Mukeshotwani]

Glad it helped! Thank you Letacio

[@user-fk5ml6jb7i]

Thanks mukesh for sharing this video. Thanks a lot..!

[@akshayashinde2413]

while running Katalon.exe on win 32 bit.no further process done.why?

[@adiprabowo2162]

can you make tutorial login test facebook with katalon?? i have tried, but at step "log out" i get error . so the result always failed. please help me

[@srinivastrully3789]

Mukesh is the best as usual

[@gaurav1381]

Hi Mukesh, Can you please explain more about custom execution which is under setting in katalon

[@KuldeepKumar-wu7xx]

looks very promising tool, thanks for sharing.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes It is very nice tool.. Give a try..

[@pb6096]

Hi mukesh,do you’ve any videos how to automate angular based applications using katalon.thanks

[@saikiranpalugula802]

Thank you very much for introducing us to a new automation tool. Kindly post some more videos on how to use object spy, how to write the script manually and how to work on ajax controls.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Sai, sure more videos yet to come :) Stay tunned.

[@SaikiranPalugula]

Hi Mukesh, thank you very much for the video on Katalon Studio. Please let me know how to integrate Katalon Studio with Test Rail?

[@ArunSharma0603]

thank you so much sir for sharing awesome video.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks, Arun :) I am glad you liked it

[@malinivu1575]

Hi Mukesh ,Thanks for your contributionrecommend

[@Mukeshotwani]

So nice of you I am glad it helped. Malini

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hope you will like this tool. Kindly share your thought on this.

[@priythak3]

Can we use scripts from this tool to execute in saucelabs ?

[@trandaniel3521]

Priyanka Thakur Yes, we can. You can learn more about the features at docs.katalon.com/display/KD/SauceLabs+Integration

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Daniel thanks for quick reply.

[@YunusTraveler]

Hi Mukhes, thank you for the video. can we integrate it with jenkins ?

[@m.tanzeebrubaiathaque8716]

Waiting for part 2 🙏

[@laxmideepika]

Hi Mukesh, Very very Interesting and Useful... its the combination of QTP and Selenium... Mainly No need to write any script. Appreciating your efforts which is really helping Us!!! Please add more videos soon, including complex scenarios with real-time projects Thanks....

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Deepika, correct its combination of QTP and Selenium. I have planned many videos will upload soon.

[@jigneshsheliya5949]

Good video, Grt Help, Thank you.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Jignesh bhai

[@tramvo2900]

Why I can not connect with Safari 11 (Katalon version 5.0.1)

[@himanshusingh6350]

nice videos....helps for us..thanks...mukesh

[@srikubobba4273]

hi mukesh, thanks for all your efforts. Would you prefer this to selenium looking at these features it has?

[@y.c.breddy3153]

Is it coding experience mandatory for katalon studio

[@himankshekher8645]

Hey Mukesh Please provide more tutorial video on katalon for web.. mobile and API testing.. there are other video tutorial.. but I have been learning from Ur videos and want to continue in the same way

[@MrEarthwaterwind]

Hi Mukesh, do you think this tool is going to take over Selenium ?

[@raghav8888]

Good one. Do you have anymore videos on how to work with Object repository? Like in this video you did change the xpath for fail the case. So how do we fix them? Should we record again or is there a way to update from application?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Raghu you can update OR directly is Katalon

[@koteswararaovasa9721]

Hi Mukesh,can you share your views on how katalon impacts on selenium market?

[@goldenwales]

Nice Video. Do you know if its possible to send attachment in soap request with Katalon?

[@bs7099]

Can this tool do the function of reading from excel sheet as input and declare variables, print messages and if/else/loop conditions in recording mode ?

[@lucasalder3664]

Hi Bikram, you may find the answer by raising question on their support channel at: forum.katalon.com/

[@aarchakulkarni2077]

Hi Mukesh, Thank you so much for the video. Do you think katalon is good tool to automate testing for ecommerce website? Plus is it possible to integrate API test cases in between ui automation?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Aarcha yes we can integrate and Katalon will work for any application

[@rajavarapubharatkumar1855]

Hi Mukesh i was learn selenium using your videos so now I am good in selenium.comapre the bouth Selenium and katalon which one is best?

[@varunbassi]

Hi Mukesh, Need your input. My Company wants to Automate Salesforce Testing and needs advise as to which tool to use? Is Katalon Studio better than Selenium? If I judge based on market demand, no company from where I live uses it. Everyone uses Selenium instead. So, I'm confused whether to recommend Selenium or Katalon??

[@sihezhai]

hi Man, this tool is just based on the selenium.....package selenium's complex command or script. We can say you use this tool, means you use the selenium

[@yugendervelde]

Hi Mukesh, do we have any option to record third party tool.. like filezilla, because we passing the xml through filezilla and we should that file transfer into the web application..

[@Mukeshotwani]

Use AutoIT for the same...

[@tejkumarkempaiah4906]

What is the version of katalon which was used in your demo ? Cz seems like only that version has report feature..

[@appansingharoy491]

Hi, i tried and faced the same issue. But i found the report folder in the project root directory. However, the report folder is not displayed in katalon test explorer. One more thing, there is no HTML report present in the report folder, only JSON report and few other formats are present.

[@Sanjeevkumar-cl6nl]

Pls let me know the best automation tool for Automating Mobile application both Android and iOS? Whether I can proceed with Appium or any other emerging tools?

[@Mukeshotwani]

TestProject

[@sathyaraj7272]

@mukesh, thanks for sharing this video. I have a question like if we want to execute same TC multiple times with different credentials? That how can we do it. And can we use collections concept here?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Sathya we can do that using our keyword or Test Suite collection in Katalon. I will post video for this.

[@ArunJadhavRocco]

Hi Mukesh, Thanks for your video. Is there a way to test the Network calls scenario using Charles or Fiddler?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Arun, You can use bmp.lightbody.net/ for this.

[@praveenrajist]

Hi Mukesh I download katalon studio on my ubundu system how to install please replay me

[@vikram4103]

Hi Mukesh, Can I use Katalon even for Desktop based application ?What if I need to consume the responses of REST Services while working with Web UI automation ?Does Katalon support both REST Services and WebUI automation within a single kind of project ?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Vikarm, Katalon does not support Desktop automation. You can use Winium for desktop automation. Katalon support web services, mobile automation, web ui automation.

[@rckevartmusic533]

Hi Mukesh, You are a fantastic chap and I have found your videos to be very useful. I like the Katalon framework, but was wondering how do I do cucumber BDD with Katalon. I can add the the cucumber JAR in external library, but were are the feature files actually created?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey RCKev, Thank you so much for such a nice comment. As of now Katalon does not support BDD but they have planned for this. Maybe they will release the new version soon. You can checkout the same answer here forum.katalon.com/discussion/1744/is-it-possible-to-run-cucumber-features-files Thanks Mukesh

[@vishalshah8972]

Hi Mukesh, Can you please tell me how validation of numbers, email and particular format is done using Katalon Studio.

[@Mukeshotwani]

not sure on this Vishal

[@MaheshJoshi_wellington]

Hi Mukesh is kataloan studio work for me in the following scenario ,

[@jayeshchhapwale9200]

Hi I was looking forward to start katalon , so thank you for making this video Also can u please make one video for mobile automation script in katalon

[@pritipawar2460]

Hi Mukesh, I am trying to install Nexial for API automation, While installation I am getting " PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder ! ! Exception: unable to find valid certification path to requested target" this error. Can you please help me?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Priti, is it possible to share API?

[@manekagayomi9079]

Hi Mukesh, I have record & replay the login page of Orange HRM.It is successfully run without any error. But when I'm try to record user details section as well. But when play the record I'm getting this kind of error. "Test Cases/edit profile FAILED because (of) Unable to click on object........(Root cause: element not visible) Why getting this kind of error? Please help

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Maneka you have to give some wait to make it visible

[@mshhsm6811]

Hello Sir, i'm from Bangladesh, plz upgrade more the katalon series if possible. I want to learn more.

[@pragatipatil6303]

HI Mukesh, plz tell how to write dynamic values into excel sheet in case of Rest API?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Pragati you need to use Apache POI to read and write excel.

[@nareshthummalapalli2082]

please if anyone know that katalon updated version introduction class please refer me in the reply I download the new version 7 please help to learn this

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Naresh here is the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZeuh3WqoKanjc0

[@sumatoli.]

Unable to start application on device:appium directory is invalid :cannot find appium executable file, error is coming for real mobile device testing . All path are set and even appium doctor also not showing any error. any specific resolution for this.

[@sihezhai]

hi Man, it is a great video, and, where is the part2 ,3 ,4, 5 ?

[@rakeshsharma-qe3pt]

@mukesh otwani: pelase suggest me how to start learning rest api automation using java

[@Mukeshotwani]

yes rakesh will upload soon.

[@suchibatheja9813]

Hi Mukesh, Can we automate Angular application using Katalon Studio?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes Suchi we can do that..

[@akashp1690]

hi mukesh i am following your videos form many days can you please make a video on how capture the xpath of shadow dom based application .how katalon studio will help on shadow dom structure

[@Mukeshotwani]

Sure Akash I will make video for that as well. Do you have any application which covers shadow dom ?

[@adhongde1]

Trying capture iner text of variable but no luck String FstName = WebUI.getText(findTestObject('OR_AddEmployee/Page_OrangeHRM (2)/input_firstName')) println (FstName) its not printing inner text of object it print as blank

[@lucasalder3664]

Hi abbay, you can submit your concern on their forum, there are a lot of valuable info I found here: forum.katalon.com/

[@nileshroy8778]

Is it compatible with linux

[@sanketshiralkar5292]

Hello Mukesh , I am not able to launch CHROME although addin is installed I got below error nable to open browser with url: '' (Root cause: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start. Build info: version: '3.7.1', revision: '8a0099a', time: '2017-11-06T21:07:36.161Z' System info: host: 'LAPTOP-TMFG1VRE', ip: '192.168.0.107', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_102' Driver info: driver.version: CChromeDriver)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Which version of Chrome you are using?

[@sanketshiralkar5292]

Mukesh otwani hello Mukesh , I resolved that issue by updating chrome browser and downloading latest chrome driver and string it into Katlon driver folder. Thanks

[@prakashsrinivasan4626]

Hi mukesh, thanks for good one. here my question is how do i get reports on invalid password attempt. am new to katalon so i have tried right but getting a report as passed with invalid attempt

[@Mukeshotwani]

Seems you havent refreshed the report. If test fails it should throw or generate failed report.

[@prakashsrinivasan4626]

@@Mukeshotwani will you able to send me the further tutorials links.? i mean mobile automation and so on.

[@deepaksingh-ts8qk]

hi mukesh, thanks.

[@MaheshJoshi_wellington]

scenario is here - We have Document Management system cloud application where we saved all our documents ! I want to automate basic tests 1st which also has performance testing involved. Example 1) go to content management system 2) click on recent documents - test how long it takes to load 3) upload documents - how long document takes to upload ? how I can perform these testes please help thanks

[@lucasalder3664]

Hi Mahesh, you may come to Katalon Forum to raise your question and discuss with other users via forum.katalon.com/. Hope this helps you.

[@yourworld4786]

Hi Mukesh, thanks for this video, I would like learn this tool. Do you provide online training ?

[@Mukeshotwani]

No, sorry Faizan, I dont provide any training on Katalon as of now.

[@decerymuyco3490]

is it possible to change the light theme of IDE into Dark color?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Decery, yes you can do that..

[@meetamalhotra1976]

Hi Mukesh, Can we migrate projects created in selenium to this tool because all the test cases of my project is in selenium. So can u suggest how can I do the same?.. otherwise I have to build new test cases in katalon..

[@lucasalder3664]

In their latest version - Katalon 5.3, you can use 'Import Selenium IDE Scripts' to do that. Learn how via: docs.katalon.com/display/KD/Version+5.3#Version5.3-SeleniumIDE

[@meetamalhotra1976]

Hi Arva, We have already migrated from Selenium IDE to Selenium Webdriver..so if scripts are already in Webdriver then how can I migrate my scripts in katalon?. Tell me the solution for it otherwise I have to create my test cases from scratch which is very time consuming.

[@michalmichal5267]

very nice tool :)

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Michal, this tool has now community version and pro version as well.

[@tanushrimukherjee2762]

Hi Mukesh can you please help me with the code for OracleDB connection and writing query in Katalon Test case.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Tanu, as of now I don’t have video but will come with video soon.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Another good news for katalon is coming with new version katalon 7 which has many new interesting feature. Release date is 24 oct

[@Khetandod]

Hi Mukesh Sir, Please tell me how to sell email the report. thank you.

[@tramvo2900]

Hi Mukesh, can you send file "Katalon_studio.dmg version 4.8" to me??

[@indusahu8589]

Hello Mukesh, I have a doubt that what if an object is not defined in the object repository and we have to add them into it, then what will be the solution?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Indu, As per framework it is mandatory to pass through object because of Reusability.

[@jonathanmiddleton913]

Is there a way to run the Web UI and Mobile UI tests in the same test cases?

[@lucasalder3664]

Hi Jonathan, I think Web UI and Mobile UI tests are not in the same context. You can only do this if your current application under test is hybrid application so that it will support both contexts. If you believe your current application under text is hybrid application, then you need to use ‘Switch To Web View’ keyword before using any Web UI keywords afterward.

[@rupeshgawande2716]

Mukesh sir.....Please upload hybrid framework video (keyword driven and data driven and POM) .....I need this

[@dvsrkumar13]

Mukesh , Is this tool going to be a potential replacement for Selenium? How it is going to affect selenium market ?

[@lucasalder3664]

Since Selenium was no longer support FF 55+, I think Katalon maybe considered as a potential replacement

[@faisalakml]

Hello Mukesh, can Katalon do automation testing mobile like ride robot?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Yes it supports

[@faisalakml]

can Katalon using emulator? from create test case/script until finish running test case/script?

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Faisal Katalon supports real devices and emulators both

[@vegaaaa1]

Can i use it for collecting data ? and can i get code from it and use it in C# project and can i Share Scripts and send it from other persons have no Katalon ?

[@johns.4336]

Va Ga 1. "Can i use it for collecting data?" -> What do you mean by collecting data? I don't really get it, can you make it clearer? 2. "Can i get code from it and use it in C# project?" -> Unfortunately, Katalon Studio does not support this at the moment. 3. "Can i share scripts and send it from other persons have no Katalon?" -> Sure you can. Just have a look at its Git Integration feature at docs.katalon.com/display/KD/Git+Integration

[@Mukeshotwani]

Thanks Smith for quick response.

[@adhongde1]

How to write or update excel file?

[@adhongde1]

How to pass variable value from one test case to another

[@renukakommoju4055]

Hi Mukesh...Canu provide videos for katalon studio with desktop applications recording and playback

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hey Renuka, I have not tried this with Katalon. You can check Raghav Pal videos for this.

[@renukakommoju4055]

@@Mukeshotwani Ok...Thanks for reply

[@sunnyneluballi2131]

Hi Mukesh, Does katalon supports/run SpecFlow BDD scripts??

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Sunny, as per my knowledge Katalon as of now only supports Cucumber framework which is JAVA based but not sure about specFlow which is based on C#

[@pavankdas3931]

Hi mukesh, I'm new to katalon , Pre condition what ? Do we know the knowledge on java or dotnet ? Can you clear on this. Please be mention this points also.

[@Mukeshotwani]

Hi Pavank, no precondition , Katalon use Groovy docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/product-availability-matrix.html

[@gaurav1381]

Hi Mukesh can you pls share the steps to test web site on mobile browser/M6

[@lucasalder3664]

I think the answer can be found at: forum.katalon.com/discussion/1941/browser-automation-on-a-mobile-device Hope this help you, Gaurav!