Hello everyone 
Just curious to hear from the community — what’s one Katalon feature you initially ignored or underestimated, but now feel like you can’t live without in your daily automation work? Would love to learn from your experiences!
Thank you for your sharing, our community folks will jump in and share their insights. How about your experience for Katalon, or any other testing solutions out there?
Bella
Though I will not say I ignored the below feature but these days I have been using more often and I enjoy
- Debugging feature
Being able to see my Object’s pathway without searching the Object Repository (19 G items) to find them by CTRL + click in the code. Huge saving of time–HUGE.
Also, the restore button on the left and/or right side helps me reset my Log Viewer pane after I minimize the pane to review the code and poof, it’s back.
I will say not overlooked but the core and the things we really enjoy is its reporting, centralized plus auto sent to Stakeholders is amazing for us.
adn to add on overlooked as we learn, the clicking on object as mention by @grylion54 was no doubt an amazing win!!, i also like the advance search feature in folder structure.
also the unused object search feature is also a great thing
Exploring day by day, and everytime looks like a new discovery
you didnt tell about your expereince
i m new to it but i like inspector
Data Driven connecting excel file to test script
Keywords is an amazing thing i found quite later
For me, it was Test Listeners. At first, I didn’t really pay attention to it. I thought it was just an extra feature and not that useful.
But once I started using it, everything changed.
Before that, I was repeating the same things in many test cases — like setup, logging, taking screenshots, etc. It was a bit messy and hard to maintain. After using Test Listeners, I could handle all that in one place, and my test cases became much cleaner.
Now I use it for:
- common setup before running tests
- automatic screenshots and logs when something fails
- managing environment config easily
One thing I really like about Katalon is this —
even powerful features like this are very easy to use. You don’t need to build a big framework or write too much code. Just simple annotations and it works.
That’s what makes Katalon special for me —
it gives powerful features but keeps it simple
Now I always feel like… I should have used this much earlier 
Hmm yes, test listener is an exciting feature
i like the API being treated like object !
got to know so much features here!
The ‘Run From Here’ feature was great..!
But now it is not working since long.
Katalon team needs to get this fixed.
Run From Here is an Enterprise feature. It will not work on the Free version.
And it did have some parameters for when it would or would not run. Also, you have to organize your test cases properly for it to work–like don’t have your Global Variables declared at the top of the test case because your issue(s) could be anywhere in the script. Run From Here basically rolls down to where you “start” and bypasses everything above your startpoint. Rats!
looking for so much things here
I’m aware that it is Enterprise feature, I’m using paid license for past 1.5 years.
Run From Here was working in 10.x versions, but when upgraded to 11.x that feature was never working.
I have specifically started designing my tests that way when I started using Run From Here feature.
Whenever I need Run From Here I have to comment out the earlier steps leading to that particular step.
That’s troublesome at least for me, especially since there is feature to avoid this and I cannot use it.
Hmmm this Run From here is a good feature