Automation using Katalon Studio for Beginners

I was starting to create my first automation is for investment and trading Android applications. I will say it's a quite difficult start because investment and trading applications are having a lot of tricky behavior and flow.

My team decided to create the automation using Katalon Studio. Katalon Studio is a fairly simple, straightforward automation testing tool—meaning that you don’t need to have great programming knowledge in order to write automation test cases. There is also a scripting mode for more advanced users and test cases. Katalon Studio is supported to create Web, Mobile, Desktop and API automation.

To install and start to use Katalon Studio is completely easy. Let’s begin!

First of all, you need to create an account to be able to download the Katalon Studio, sign up using this link. After you finish registering and successfully login, you can jump to this link to download the app.

Open the file from the download folder and you will see there is Katalon Studio.app. Go and open it.
This is the look when you open the Katalon Studio app for the first time, the start tab will be displayed automatically.

In the beginning, you can read and learn the keyword provided from Katalon Studio. Check the Keyword Browser by tapping the keyword browser icon on the left side.

You will see there are some types of keywords;

Built-in Keywords is general keywords from Katalon that provide for Web UI keywords, Mobile keywords, Cucumber keywords, Web Service keywords, and Windows keyword.

Custom Keywords is a keyword that you can create on your own (will create a separate article about custom keywords later). Once created, custom keywords can be used when implementing test cases, just like other built-in keywords.

Utils is an additional general keyword such as Call Test Case, If-Else statements, Looping, Branching statements, and many more. Let’s talk more detail about Utils in another article.

So, that's all you need to do to begin your first automation using Katalon Studio. Read and learn the keywords first before you start your first automation.
In the next article, let's talk more details about the Katalon Studio features.

Stay tuned! 🤖