Migrate from the standalone Bug Capture extension to Testing Toolkit

Learn what changes for your login, plan, and data when you migrate from the standalone Bug Capture extension to Testing Toolkit.

BrowserStack is retiring the standalone Bug Capture extension. Bug Capture is now part of BrowserStack Testing Toolkit, and all users migrate to the Testing Toolkit extension.

The standalone Bug Capture extension was originally called Bird Eats Bug. Plans purchased under either name, through Paddle, AppSumo, or a custom agreement, are called legacy plans on this page.

BrowserStack carries over all your data. Your recordings, workspaces, folders, comments, integrations, and shared links remain available. You don’t need to export anything or set anything up.

The changes that apply to you depend on how you log in and which plan you’re on. This page covers both.

Timeline

The migration to Testing Toolkit happens in the following phases:

What you get with Testing Toolkit

Testing Toolkit is a Chrome extension that brings Bug Capture together with more than 10 manual testing tools. Testing Toolkit covers your workflow from test setup through execution and bug resolution. With Testing Toolkit, you get the following benefits:

• Broader test coverage, with tools for both functional and non-functional testing.
• A single installation, with no separate tools or accounts to set up and manage.
• Fewer context switches, because all tools are available within your testing workflow.

For more information, see the Testing Toolkit documentation.

Log in to Testing Toolkit

How you continue depends on how you log in today.

If you log in with Google, GitHub, or an email link

The legacy login with Google, GitHub, or an email link is turned off, and you’re logged out. To continue, follow these steps:

1. Create a BrowserStack account with the same email address that you currently use to log in. Your data is linked automatically. If you already have a BrowserStack account, log in to BrowserStack with it.
2. Accept the BrowserStack terms. You need to do this only once.
3. Switch to your existing legacy workspace. Signing up creates a new private workspace, which is selected by default, so your recordings might not appear at first. Your legacy workspace, including your recordings and current plan, remains available. Switch to your legacy settings to access your recordings.
4. Select your legacy workspace for your first upload. BrowserStack saves new recordings from either extension to the new private workspace by default. After your first upload, the workspace you last uploaded to is selected automatically.

Uploading from the standalone Bug Capture extension also requires your BrowserStack login.

You can no longer delete your account in the app. To delete your account, contact Support.

If you log in with BrowserStack

You don’t need to do anything. You stay logged in, you’ve already accepted the BrowserStack terms, and your workspaces are unchanged.

To delete your account, contact Support or use your BrowserStack account settings.

Changes to your plan

Find your plan in the following sections. All features remain available as long as your plan includes them.

Legacy plan paid through Paddle, AppSumo, or a custom agreement

If you’re on a paid legacy plan, the following changes apply:

• Billing: Legacy plans are retired. Your plan remains active, but you can no longer change it in the app. To upgrade, add seats, renew, or cancel, contact Sales.
• AppSumo lifetime deals: BrowserStack continues to honor these deals. For any changes, contact Sales.
• Trials: You can no longer start or extend trials on your existing legacy workspace. For assistance, contact Sales.
• Uploads: Your current upload limits remain in place until your plan ends.
• Workspaces and members: Workspaces and folders, including private folders, are carried over exactly as they are. You can still invite and manage members from workspace settings.
• Comments, mentions, assignees, and labels: These are unchanged.
• Integrations: Creating issues in Jira, GitHub, Linear, and Azure DevOps, automatic issue creation on upload, Slack notifications, and folder email alerts continue to work as before.
• Website widget: The widget continues to work while your plan is active and now displays Testing Toolkit branding. Widget settings are unchanged.

Legacy Free plan or expired trial

If you’re on the legacy Free plan or your trial has ended, the following changes apply:

• Uploads: Uploading isn’t available on the Free plan or after a trial ends. To continue uploading, choose a Testing Toolkit plan on the BrowserStack pricing page.
• Recordings: All your recordings are available in view-only mode until you choose a plan. Some features, such as comments, also require a plan.
• Trials: You can no longer start or extend trials on your existing legacy workspace. For assistance, contact Sales.
• Workspaces and members: Workspaces and folders, including private folders, are carried over exactly as they are. You can still invite and manage members from workspace settings.
• Integrations: Integrations require a plan that includes them. Folder email alerts also require a plan.
• Website widget: The widget isn’t available on the Free plan or after a trial ends. Widget settings are view-only until you choose a plan.

Bug Capture plan

The Bug Capture plan is deprecated. If you’re on this plan, the following changes apply:

• Members: You now manage members in BrowserStack under Account > Manage users. Existing roles map as follows: Admins remain Admins, Viewers remain Viewers, and all other members become Full members.
• Workspaces: Workspaces are synced with your BrowserStack team. New workspaces are created from your BrowserStack team setup.
• Billing and trials: You manage these on BrowserStack.
• Features: Upload limits, comments, integrations, folder email alerts, and the website widget are unchanged and continue to depend on your plan.
• Emails: You receive Testing Toolkit emails instead of marketing emails for the standalone Bug Capture extension. “Member joined” emails are now turned off by default.

Testing Toolkit plan

If you’re on a Testing Toolkit plan, the following changes apply:

• Members: You now manage members in BrowserStack under Account > Manage users. Existing roles map as follows: Admins remain Admins, Viewers remain Viewers, and all other members become Full members.
• Workspaces: Workspaces are synced with your BrowserStack team. New workspaces are created from your BrowserStack team setup.
• Billing and trials: You manage these on BrowserStack.
• Features: Upload limits, comments, integrations, folder email alerts, and the website widget are unchanged and continue to depend on your Testing Toolkit plan.
• Dashboard: You continue to use the Testing Toolkit dashboard.
• Emails: “Member joined” emails are now turned off by default.

Changes that apply to everyone

Some changes apply to all users, regardless of how they log in or which plan they’re on.

Unchanged

The following features work as before:

• Shared links continue to work.
• Console and network logs are unchanged.
• The Trello and email share buttons are unchanged.
• Notifications for comments, mentions, assignments, uploads, and invites continue to be sent, now from BrowserStack. This change also applies to trial and usage-limit emails.

Changed

The following features work differently:

• The standalone Bug Capture dashboard displays a notice about the migration and redirects you to the Testing Toolkit dashboard.
• Videos recorded with the standalone Bug Capture extension download in WebM format instead of MP4, because they’re no longer converted to MP4. You can play WebM files in Chrome, Firefox, and VLC. Videos recorded with Testing Toolkit download in MP4 format.
• You can’t open recordings older than your plan’s retention period. If you need access to one, contact Support.

Discontinued

The following features are no longer available:

• You can no longer create new accounts with the legacy login. New users can sign up on BrowserStack.
• Marketing emails for the standalone Bug Capture extension are discontinued.
• Slack no longer displays link previews when you paste a recording link. The link itself continues to work.
• Status updates from Slack, GitHub, and Linear no longer sync to Bug Capture. Issues are still created, but changes made in those tools aren’t reflected in Bug Capture.
• Zapier integrations are discontinued, and existing Zaps no longer run. We recommend that you replace any Zapier automations.

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