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Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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The demo didn't work for me, Firefox 24.0/Windows. It just greyed out the screen, I could draw but I had no tool icons to do anything with it. The only way I could recover the page was to resize the window.

Please get in touch with us at contact (a) usersnap.com to investigate this issue. Thank you very much!

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

#13

This is brilliant, and brings to mind Marco Arment's excellent Bugshot[1] for iOS. Of course, this won't work for more complex interaction bugs, but perhaps support for animated GIFs could be added? Edit: just seen the pricing, $19/mo seems a bit steep, and there's no free tier, just a trial. Shame. They're positioning it as an integrated bug reporting solution, but I think it would get more adoption as an atomic too…

What concerns me more than the pricing is their monthly limits. $99/m can only allow 300 feedback forms collected in each month. That is only 10 per day

In the bug tracking use case it's plenty - imagine 300 meaningful tickets / month.

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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Where is the value-add to convince me or my QA team that this is worth $ compared to the current practice of using browser extensions (like Awesome Screenshot for Chrome) to take screengrabs and annotate them? Yes, our method is lacking the interface to bug trackers, but we don't use any of those bug trackers anyway, so no loss.

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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>Visual Bug Tracking: Understand what your user's mean!

This is petty, but such an obvious misspelling/typo means I move on. If you can't polish copy details on the landing page, the product probably isn't polished either.

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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post #14

Where is the value-add to convince me or my QA team that this is worth $ compared to the current practice of using browser extensions (like Awesome Screenshot for Chrome) to take screengrabs and annotate them? Yes, our method is lacking the interface to bug trackers, but we don't use any of those bug trackers anyway, so no loss.

Your QA doesn't have to install an extension. Imagine cross-browser or cross-device testing (desktop, mobile, even IE!) or imagine the feedback comes from your (development) customers. Usually, you'll get unstructured emails with near-zero screenshots / meta information.

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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post #16
post #14

Where is the value-add to convince me or my QA team that this is worth $ compared to the current practice of using browser extensions (like Awesome Screenshot for Chrome) to take screengrabs and annotate them? Yes, our method is lacking the interface to bug trackers, but we don't use any of those bug trackers anyway, so no loss.

Your QA doesn't have to install an extension. Imagine cross-browser or cross-device testing (desktop, mobile, even IE!) or imagine the feedback comes from your (development) customers. Usually, you'll get unstructured emails with near-zero screenshots / meta information.

I hadn't considered non-desktop testing -- thanks for the idea. :)

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your QA doesn't have to install an extension. Imagine cross-browser or cross-device testing (desktop, mobile, even IE!) or imagine the feedback comes from your (development) customers. Usually, you'll get unstructured emails with near-zero screenshots / meta information.

I hadn't considered non-desktop testing -- thanks for the idea. :)

Another use case of our customers: in-app bugtracking - they work day by day in the web app and can submit bug reports or feature ideas while they are working. Because of that, many papercuts can be fixed which would not have been reported normally.

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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post #15

>Visual Bug Tracking: Understand what your user's mean! This is petty, but such an obvious misspelling/typo means I move on. If you can't polish copy details on the landing page, the product probably isn't polished either.

Well, in fact it's just the result page of the Usersnap examples and no polished landing page. But I've corrected it for you!

Re: Usersnap – Visual Bug Tracking

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What concerns me more than the pricing is their monthly limits. $99/m can only allow 300 feedback forms collected in each month. That is only 10 per day

In the bug tracking use case it's plenty - imagine 300 meaningful tickets / month.

The hard part is the "meaningful" part. Many of them are likely to be duplicates/not particularly helpful.
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