What is Katalon Studio? A Distro of Selenium, Groovy and Eclipse
So the first question is, what is Katalon Studio? Katalon Studio can best be thought of as a distro of Selenium, Groovy and Eclipse. It installs and configures the Selenium subsystem, the Groovy language subsystem and uses a customized version of Eclipse as the IDE. After setup, it’s a ready to run environment where you have a place to write scripts, select web objects and manage your project with the Project Explorer. It also sets up drivers to use Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Internet Explorer. One of the main features of Katalon is it’s object oriented approach to automation and referencing page objects. Instead of using XPATH notation in every line such as //div[@id=’wrap’]/div/div[3]/div/div/a, you create an object with that path information, then reference the object name in code. So the above would become, “Company Name” and the code would become findTestObject(‘Company Name’). Right off the bat this is easier to read and understand. And if the path to Company […]
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