7 best bug reporting software (according to real users)
If you build apps for your clients, here’s an easy way to improve your feedback collection process and immediately reap these benefits:
- Wow your clients They’ll have a seamless way to send you feedback and report bugs
- This takes less than an hour You don’t need to change any of your existing processes or tools
- Save thousands in development hours every month – With the magic of automation, your app developers will need 50x less time than before to fix reported issues
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How are your QAs and testers testing your apps now?
Do they email you the bugs they noticed? Fill an Excel sheet perhaps? And we really hope they don’t call you trying to explain what’s wrong. Let’s take a look at the drawbacks of all these approaches.
It’s time-consuming and lacks data
Even when a professional tester tests your app, they often forget to attach a video to explain a complex bug better, or to mention which device they’re testing on. After all, we’re only humans. The situation just gets worse when non-testers send feedback — their initial reports are regularly useless and require a lot of additional back-and-forth. In the time it takes to get to the bottom of a bug, your developers could be working on new features or other improvements .
Bad blood between your developers, testers and clients
Since the bug reports coming back to your developers are often not useful or reproducible, they stop seeing reporters as helpful and instead, the process can drag on. But it’s not your client’s fault, or the testers’ either! Everyone is just following the process you’ve put in place.
Bug reports are all over the place
“I sent an email last week to one of your developers, describing the bug. Why didn’t anybody get back to me on that?”
You’re not the only one having stressed-out clients. It easy to overlook a report when they’re arriving from all possible channels at the same time.
Time is money: don’t squander thousands of dollars on senseless and repetitive tasks
Is repeatedly asking clients for more context on bugs an efficient usage of your developers’ precious hours? Is searching through Slack and chains of emails a structured and productive use of your team’s time? Automating bug reports can ensure that you can spend your valuable time on more profitable tasks .
Your client’s time and money can be saved too. Better reporting reduces their need to call you, worrying about overlooked reports. Helps them avoid sending you screenshots of issues, reopening Trello tickets, looking for “that spreadsheet from 3 weeks ago” and writing angry emails. Time to put a stop to it.
A simple process improvement: Add a powerful in-app feedback reporting plugin
To streamline all your processes, add Shake SDK to your apps while developing them and tell your testers and a clients to simply shake their devices whenever they want to report a bug or send a feedback.
Done — all your problems are solved. How?
All the useful data developers need to fix bugs is collected and sent to you out of the box
Whenever your client notices a bug, they just shake their phone, describe it in one sentence using the Shake UI and they’re hit send.
That same report instantly arrives to you automatically supplemented with all this data:
- A screenshot and/or screen recording showing you 15 seconds before the bug
- List of granted permissions
- User actions, console, network, custom and system logs
- Device and OS version (e.g. iPhone 12 Pro running iOS 14.1.1)
- Locale (e.g. en/US)
- App version (e.g. 0.1.9)
and 43 more data points. You finally have everything to fix that bug right away.
Harmonious relationship between developers, testers and a clients
As a result, your developers won’t have to worry about receiving low-quality reports ever again. They’ll never have to sift though senseless emails looking for extra information. You will enable your testers and clients to send perfect bug reports with 0 mistakes without them even realizing that.
Collaboration in one beautiful place
All the reports, from all apps and all your clients, arrive to your central web Dashboard where you can calmly browse and filter them in a structured manner. Your developers can then enjoy collaboration thereby commenting, prioritizing, and tagging bugs.
Bug & crash reporting tool for mobile apps.
To make things even better , your developers can integrate the Dashboard to task management tools that they are already using. Are you already use Jira, Azure or Trello for task management? Perfect! Just turn on bug forwarding and enjoy your new beautiful data-rich reports without ever having to use Shake web dashboard — receive everything directly to the tool you already use. Here’s a full list of integrations.
No more back-and-forth
Our research shows that software houses waste an average of 900 man-hours per project on all the back-and-forth figuring out what went wrong and why. Stop figuring things out, immediately know the cause of every reported bug from the Dashboard and save yourself time (and money) .
Stop wasting your client’s time too
Your developers can now stop constantly pinging your testers and clients for more context. Shake provides developers with everything they need, automatically.
Cool optional extras
Customize automatically-collected data
Your developers can customize Shake SDK to include any piece of data from your app as part of each report. Automatically collect custom logs, metadata and files to easily solve even the most obscure and difficult bugs.
Whitelabel Shake
Promote your software house’s brand and look cool in front of your client each time they open up the feedback reporting form.
Conclusion
Your software house can follow thousands of other companies and leave constant chaos and stress of unstructured feedback reporting behind.
Just add Shake to all your apps and you’ll fully automate this process which will immediately impress your clients, developers and testers, and will save you thousands in development hours every month.
