Katalon Studio: Manual View vs. Script View? 🛠️

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Hey tech family! :waving_hand: One of the best things about Katalon is its accessibility, but it often sparks a big debate among QA teams: Are you team “Manual View” or team “Script View”?

My Take: Manual View is fantastic for onboarding manual testers and quickly mapping out steps. But for building robust, scalable frameworks? You’ve got to dive into Script View. Writing clean Groovy code gives you the flexibility that drag-and-drop just can’t match. That said, using both hybrid-style is the real superpower.

Where do you spend 90% of your time in Katalon? Are you writing raw script, or leveraging the low-code keywords? Drop your preference below! :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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for me Script View most of the time. Manual is okay for quick tests, but it gets hard for me when need real logic

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I rarely use manual view, always on script view. And even I rarely use recorder as well

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Looks like the experts are answering my questions indirectly :stuck_out_tongue:

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Script View for me

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I seldom use the manual view, opting for script view instead, and I also rarely use the recorder.

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98% Script view

2% Manual view.

I also changed my default view to Script view.

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Yup, script view with the occasional jump to the manual view to count the number of lines so as not to exceed the “max” code size. Obviously, NO changes in the manual view so that the script doesn’t gets mangled.

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i start with recording and if need some assertion then shift to script

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I always use the Script View.

I do not agree with this polite statement. The Manual View and the Script View — these are not really interchangeable. See the following post and the linked topic.

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Manual View!

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Manual Mode is doing good for me!

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Manual is good for starters, once you get hold of the Katalon keywords and get into complex scenarios your view might change.

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depends on testcase complexity

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for validation script rest can be done thrugh manual view

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started with manual mode

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manual mode bcz i m begineer