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By Monty Bagati
API testing has become one of the highest-value activities a QA team can invest in. Because APIs operate at the business logic layer, below the user interface and above the database, tests written there are faster to execute, more stable across releases, and far cheaper to maintain than their UI counterparts. In the test pyramid, API tests occupy the middle tier: broader than unit tests, but a fraction of the cost of end-to-end UI suites.
If your team runs automated tests in Katalon Studio and relies on Jira test management to track defects, you already know the friction: a test fails, a tester screenshots the error, opens Jira, creates a ticket manually, pastes in the log, and attaches the file. Multiply that by dozens of failures per sprint, and you have a process that eats hours and invites human error. Katalon Jira integration eliminates that bottleneck entirely.
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By Monty Bagati
Writing test cases sounds simple until you're actually doing it. You read a requirement, try to figure out what "done" even means for it, write out steps, realize you missed three scenarios, go back, revise, and by the time you feel okay about it, the sprint has moved on without you. This happens to every team working at any real scale. It is just what manual test case creation costs you, and it is the problem autonomous test generation was supposed to solve at a category level.
There's a quiet frustration that lives inside most QA teams, and almost nobody talks about it out loud. You know your product better than anyone. You can walk through a customer journey in your sleep. You spot a broken flow in seconds just by using the app the way a real user would. But the moment someone says "can you just automate that test?" the conversation shifts to a language you never had to learn. Selenium. Locators. Frameworks. Script maintenance. XPath. Java.
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By Depa Panjie Purnama
Every QA leader has faced the same conversation. Leadership asks: "What are we getting for our automation investment?" And the honest answer is often some version of "we're faster than we used to be" without hard numbers to back it up. That gap between intuition and evidence is where automation programs get defunded. Not because they are not delivering value, but because the value was never quantified in terms finance teams understand.
If your team uses Playwright to write tests and Katalon to manage them, you've likely felt the gap. Results sitting in local HTML files. No way to compare Playwright runs against your Selenium or Appium suites. Managers asking for a unified report, and you scrambling to stitch things together manually. That gap is now closed. The Katalon True Platform integration with Playwright is now officially here, and it changes how teams with mixed automation stacks approach Playwright test management at scale.
You push a commit. The pipeline goes red. You run it again and get green. No code changed. Nothing in the environment changed. And yet, the result is different. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone. Flaky tests in test automation are one of the biggest hidden productivity drains in modern software delivery, and most teams are still treating them as a minor annoyance rather than a systemic problem. Spoiler: they're not minor. And the way teams traditionally try to fix flaky tests? It mostly backfires.
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By Joe Sturgess
A failed payment is never just a technical failure. It is the moment a customer loses confidence in your platform, abandons their purchase, and often does not return. Unlike most bugs, a payment failure has a direct and immediate cost. This guide gives you the test cases to prevent that. Below you will find over 50 test cases organised by type and filterable by category, guidance on using AI to speed up your test suite, and a pre-launch checklist you can work through before every release.
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By Joe Sturgess
Play Quality People - Huy Tieu: The Evolution of Agentic QA: From scripts to Harnesses 17: 18 A conversation with Huy Tieu, Senior Product Manager at Katalon, on why the scripted testing model broke, what replaces it, and the one experiment every QA leader should run this week. The term "Agentic QA" is everywhere in 2026. Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by year's end, up from under 5% in 2025.
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By Huyen Nguyen
AI-assisted development means more code, faster release cycles, and a testing surface area that keeps expanding, but QA team size hasn't kept pace. The result is a pressure most QA engineers know well: you're not behind because you're slow. You're behind because the math no longer works. Most tools respond by adding AI at the margins: a suggestion feature here, a copilot shortcut there.
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By Katalon
Katalon Studio 11.2 is out. Xuan Tran (PM, Studio) walks through what's new in our product, including AI Failure Analysis, which tells you why a test failed instead of making you read the logs.
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By Katalon
Complexity doesn’t just "go away" because of AI. Watch to find out how to connect your existing test environment to the power of AI to get REAL work done. The future of software quality is here.
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By Katalon
Testing at the speed of AI is no longer a goal. It's here. Introducing Katalon True Platform: built for every tester, powered by AI, designed for quality at scale. Why Katalon True Platform? Don’t let your testing be the bottleneck in an AI-driven world. Deliver quality software with confidence.
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By Katalon
What makes Katalon stand out is its tester-first approach to AI. Instead of chasing flashy demos, Katalon has spent years co-developing AI capabilities with customers, focusing on how AI fits naturally into real testing workflows. The result is AI that testers can actually adopt and trust, delivering measurable gains in productivity, speed, and efficiency in day-to-day work — Alex Martins, VP of Strategy at Katalon.
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By Katalon
AI native development requires AI native testing because testing teams now face code generated not just by developers, but by AI agents as well. To keep pace and maintain quality, testers need comparable AI-powered capabilities that can generate, assist, and scale testing alongside AI-driven development, helping level the playing field and support faster, more efficient delivery — Coty Rosenblath, Chief Technology Officer at Katalon.
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By Katalon
Yes, the team expected the implementation to take longer. Given the client’s secure environment, multiple pre-production setups, and many agile teams, the plan allowed for nine weeks or more. In reality, the implementation was completed in about six weeks, even with an unplanned pause, which exceeded expectations and highlighted how smoothly the rollout went — Mush Honda, Chief Quality Architect at Katalon.
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By Katalon
The first TrueTest implementation succeeded because the team aligned early on clear goals and maintained an open, realistic mindset about what AI could deliver. By being transparent, receptive to guidance, and working in a stable environment, they were able to move quickly and achieve measurable value much faster than expected, which was the biggest and most positive surprise from the implementation.
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By Katalon
This white paper provides a continuous testing benchmark and practical advice from experts. See where your team is at and the steps needed to advance upon.
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By Katalon
Amid the unprecedented year of 2020, the state of software testing continues to fluctuate. To better understand current trends, we, the Katalon team, conducted this comprehensive report to empower individuals and organizations and help them better adapt to "the new normal." Synthesized from valuable contributions of 5,000+ IT professionals across many industries worldwide, the report reflects diverse insights that shape the future of testing.
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Katalon is a leading provider in software test automation solutions and professional services. We offer teams and businesses powerful solutions for web, API, mobile, and desktop testing. Our goal is to help address the sharp demand of test automation in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
Katalon has been widely adopted by a global community of users and has been recognized as a top automation tool by prestigious websites and reports such as Gartner, SmartBear, Capterra, and more. Our solutions include Katalon Studio, Katalon Analytics, and Katalon Store.
The Katalon solution features:
- Full-Platform Support: Execute tests for on all operating systems, browsers, and devices. Operate on both cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
- Quick to Adopt. Powerful to Scale: Codeless test creation for beginners. Endless script extension and parallel executions for experts.
- Seamless Agile & CI/CD Integration: Out-of-the-box Jira integration. Native integration with the most popular CI tools: Jenkins, Bamboo, Azure, and CircleCI.
- Powered by AI: Reduce maintenance cost and boost execution pace with auto-healing, visual testing, machine learning.
Your automation journey starts here.