Slowness Issues in Katalon 10.0.0

[duy.lam]

@debanga.jena

I tried to reproduce this by executing the test case shopping-cart-tests/Test Cases/Custom-keyword samples/Order and check out a single product.tc at master · katalon-studio-samples/shopping-cart-tests · GitHub (through an adhoc test suite) in my computer but didn’t see the issue.

My env

• Mac OS 14.5
• Katalon version:10.0.0.223
• Chrome 130.0.0.0

Per the screenshot from the HTML report, test steps include the keyword WaitForElementVisible but the elapsed time isn’t up to 60 seconds (custom keywords in the sample test case contain many other built-in keywords so it’s normal when their elapsed time is over 1 second)

The sample test project already turns on advanced features like SmartWait, SmartLocator.

Would it be possible for you to reproduce with the sample Katalon project above and send us the log?

Duy

[dineshh]

@debanga.jena kindly share the logs as requested

[albert.vu]

Hi @debanga.jena,

Just following up with you to check if you were able to resolve your issue or not. If yes, then please let us know so we can close this thread. If not, then please follow up with our forum members above so that you could get a solution.

Thanks,
Albert

[kazurayam]

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:

http://katmdtest.discourse.group/t/katalon-studio-v10-0-0-runs-slower-than-v9-7-6-a-measurement-report/181372

and this:

http://katmdtest.discourse.group/t/katalon-studio-v10-3-1-runs-slower-on-windows-than-on-mac/181675

[kazurayam]

Do we have to embrace the slower Katalon Studio v10.x? ---- Possibly yes.

If a user wants his/her WebUI test to be drastically faster, then possibly he/she should consider moving away from Selenium; he/she should move toward other UI test automation platform such as Playright and Puppeteer.

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