Katalon typing too slow into input type text

I just updated and Katalon is typing really slow, maybe 8 seconds per character.

Please share your test code. Thank you.

We are having the same issue.
Takes 6-7 seconds for each letter to appear.

Test code is very simple

WebUI.setText(findTestObject(ā€˜Corporate/Page_Reservation/input_Voornaam_FormFirstNameā€™), GlobalVariable.FirstName)

Katalon Studio
Version: 6.3.2
Build: 4

IEDriverserver is at 25% on a 4 core system (so 100% on one core)

No plugins.
Fresh restart of the laptop

Itā€™s an IE Driver problem. You can try switch to a 32 bit version

A couple of suggestions:

1.) If you have a choice, choose not to use IE. The browser itself is not great, and the driver for it is worse.

2.) The setText() method uses Seleniumā€™s sendKeys() method behind the scenes. This simulates pressing the keys, one by one, corresponding to each character in the String, like you would on a keyboard. A ā€œbetterā€ way would be to set values using JavaScript, which sets the value attribute of the element all at once:

WebElement element = WebUiCommonHelper.findWebElement(findTestObject('your/object'), 30)
WebUI.executeJavaScript("arguments[0].value='some value'", Arrays.asList(element))
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Hi Brandon,

  1. IE still has about 10% of the visitors, so we need to test.
  2. I would like the tests to be as close to the UX as possible.
    Setting the value on a field will work if the field is inaccessible from the UI, so weā€™d capture less errorā€™s this way.
    A compromise I implemented is to only use the javascript in IE and the SetText on other browsers like this:
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory as DriverFactory
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.common.WebUiCommonHelper as WebUiCommonHelper
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement

WebElement search = WebUiCommonHelper.findWebElement(findTestObject('Corporate/HomePage/MainSearchBox'), 10)

if(DriverFactory.getExecutedBrowser().getName() == "IE_DRIVER") 
{	
	WebUI.executeJavaScript("arguments[0].value='"+ GlobalVariable.Search+"'", Arrays.asList(search))
} 
else 
{
	WebUI.setText(search,GlobalVariable.Search)
}

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, @Brandon_Hein

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you can change the IE driver to IE driver version x32 it will work.
IE Driver Location: <Katalon Studio folder>\configuration\resources\drivers\
you can download it from here depending on your selenium version:
https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

Iā€™m seeing this too, but for me, itā€™s happening on an iOS device, not IE. Iā€™ve only made two test cases so far, but both seem to be exhibiting this problem on my login and logout fields. Hereā€™s an example:

import static com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.CheckpointFactory.findCheckpoint
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testcase.TestCaseFactory.findTestCase
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory.findTestData
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ObjectRepository.findTestObject
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ObjectRepository.findWindowsObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.Checkpoint as Checkpoint
import com.kms.katalon.core.cucumber.keyword.CucumberBuiltinKeywords as CucumberKW
import com.kms.katalon.core.mobile.keyword.MobileBuiltInKeywords as Mobile
import com.kms.katalon.core.model.FailureHandling as FailureHandling
import com.kms.katalon.core.testcase.TestCase as TestCase
import com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestData as TestData
import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObject as TestObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.WSBuiltInKeywords as WS
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI
import com.kms.katalon.core.windows.keyword.WindowsBuiltinKeywords as Windows
import internal.GlobalVariable as GlobalVariable
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys as Keys

Mobile.startExistingApplication('com.acstechnologies.Realm.Engagement')

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeTextField - Email'), 0)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('Object Repository/iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeStaticText - Continue'), 0)

Mobile.setText(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeTextField - Email'), 'thecitytest+331@gmail.com', 0)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeSecureTextField - Password'), 0)

Mobile.setText(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeSecureTextField - Password'), '1Password', 0)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeButton - Sign In'), 0)

Mobile.delay(1, FailureHandling.STOP_ON_FAILURE)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeStaticText - Our Lady of Technical Truth'), 0)

Mobile.delay(1, FailureHandling.STOP_ON_FAILURE)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeButton - More'), 0)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeStaticText - Profile'), 0)

Mobile.delay(1, FailureHandling.STOP_ON_FAILURE)

Mobile.swipe(100, 700, 100, 100)

Mobile.tap(findTestObject('iOS_OR/XCUIElementTypeStaticText - Sign Out'), 0)

Mobile.closeApplication()

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