Please hava a look at the following topic where I reported that Katalon Studio v10.0.0 with Selenium 4 runs slower than v9.7.6 with Selenium 3. I made a set of reproducible sample codes:
Problem to solve
In August 2025 when Katalon Studio v10.3.x is current, in the Katalon Community,
people started discussing that the latest version of Katalon Studio runs slower than before.
Katalon 10.3.1 - smart wait is now much much slower
I thought that I should find which exact version of Katalon Studio got slower.
Nobody has measured it. So I will do that.
Environment
using a machine Mac Book Air, 2-18, 1.6GHz Intel Core i5, 17GB memory, macOS Sonoma14.7.6
used Chrome browser v139.0…
and this:
At the end of Aug 2025, I wrote a report “Katalon Studio v10.0.0 runs slower than v9.7.6” . After that, I got more questions:
@petr.brezina suggested that Katalon Studio v10.3.1 runs slower on Windows than Mac. Is it a fact?
The Smart Wait feature — how is it influencive to the processing time?
So I carried out one more time of performance examination of Katalon Studio versions. Let me report the result.
I used my Windows 11 laptop with 16GB memory. An ordinary consumer model, nothing special…