Hi,
Can someone suggest about the what would be the best approach, whether developing the groovy scripts or recorded scripts ? Please share the positive and negative side of these two ?
Because we are planning implement the katalon studio in the project !!
Thanks in advance.
Very shortly -
Recording
+ easy and straightforward for non-technical testers
- very limiting, you are not able to use all features of Katalon
Writing scripts
+++ fully customizable solution with all benefits of Java and Groovy
+ robust code, human can usually find better selectors
- tester must have technical background
You can even combine these two approaches, but if you are able to write a code, Iād strongly recommend to write scripts manually. Recorder is a very handy feature, but you can write far better tests on your own.
Also:
Recording
ā it gets very clumsy, bloated and complicated very fast
Writing scripts
++ by the time you recorded 20 scripts, you will already learn to write almost all of the code the recorder can get you (maybe using good CSS/xpath locators will take some more time)
Thank you, Marek. Please share if any more.
Thank you so much.