Katalon 6.3.3 vs 8.6.0 - Slower execution speed

[kazurayam]

There could be many factors.

One of them could be this:

Log Viewer slows down your tests. How to prevent it?

I have published a demo project at GitHub. Problem to solve Katalon Studio’s “Log Viewer” slows down your test execution significantly. Are you aware of this fact? Maybe not. So I will report my analysis here. I can explain how to make it better. Measurement result Let me go straight to the point. The following table shows the result I measured how long a Test Suite took to finish running. I used a single Test Suite while I applied several variation of the “Log Viewer” setups. As the fo…

Plus, you should compare the 2 logs taken in v6.3.3 and v8.6.0 to find out which specific test steps got slower. Any significant performance differences should have some reasons. You need to look at each symptoms indivisually in detail. Performance issues could be resolved only by your detail inspections.