Bugasura and exploratory Mobile Testing

A few weeks back, Pradeep Soundararajan; founder of Moolya testing and I were having a conversation on twitter on test strategies for mobile apps. He suggested trying Bugasura for running a bag bash.

Bugasura is an android app and a chrome extension. it helps with keeping track of exploratory testing sessions and comes with screenshot annotation and jira integration. 

Here are a couple of screenshots of the android app in action, being used for an exploratory session on our test app.

Bugasura Flow

First I selected the testing session:

While I’m testing I see this Bugasura overlay which I can tap to take a screenshot and write up a bug report on the spot:

Here’s their reporting a bug flow:

And here’s a testing report after I finished my exploratory testing where I can push straight to Jira if I want:

Here’s the sample report link (caveat, the screenshots attached to the bug are now public information on the internet, so there’s a privacy concern right there), but OMG, the exploratory session recorded the whole flow too (so a developer could see exactly what I did to find that bug).

Flow Capture

Here’s that bug report in chrome paused at screen 13 out of 18:

On a side note, I love having these Jerry Weinberg (who wrote perfect software and other illusions about testing) and Elisabeth Hendrickson (who wrote Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing) quotes sprinkled through out the app.

Some caveats I’ve found so far; the test report is public (not private by default), you wouldn’t want to include screenshots of private or confidential information.

Bugasura only works on android/chrome. There isn’t an ios version but I guess with some remote device access running through Chrome it could work? We use Gigafox’s Mobile Device Cloud at work to access a central server of mobile devices and I imagine Bugasura could work with it.

Also I think they may have misspelt Elisabeth’s name in her quote.

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