Web and mobile testing company BrowserStack Inc. today announced that it has acquired bug reporting tool startup Bird Eats Bug for an undisclosed sum.

Founded in 2020 as Bird Labs GmbH, Bird Eats Bug offers a bug reporting tool that helps companies streamline their software development process by providing an efficient way to capture, track and fix bugs. The service is designed to eliminate the time-consuming back-and-forth between developers, product management and customer support teams when dealing with software bugs.

Key features of the service include a browser extension and web software development kit widget that simplify screen recording for bug tracking by automatically capturing technical logs in the background. The tool generates sharable, data-rich bug reports that provide engineers with critical details such as console logs, reproduction steps, network requests and environment specifics, the company says.

Bird Eats Bug integrates with various issue-tracking, communication and support tools to enhance existing workflows with faster, more detailed and relevant data. The service also provides a collaborative space wherein teams can address bugs and automate the transfer of manual tests into scripts for end-to-end testing frameworks, with support for Cypress.io Inc., the Selenium Project, Google LLC’s Puppeteer and Microsoft Corp.’s Playwright.

BrowserStack intends to bring Bird Eats Bug’s capabilities into its ecosystem, including with the launch today of Bug Capture, a new solution for manual testing. The acquisition not only aligns with BrowserStack’s vision of creating a comprehensive developer-first end-to-end test platform but also underscores an urgent need to resolve gaps in bug-reporting processes and eliminate fragmented toolchains in testing, according to the company.

“This acquisition marks a significant step towards our goal of providing developer and QA teams with a unified, seamless testing experience,” said Ritesh Arora, co-founder and chief executive of BrowserStack. “By integrating Bug Capture’s innovative approach to bug reporting into our platform, we’re not just streamlining workflows; we’re boosting development teams’ productivity so they can focus more on building great products and less on managing the intricacies of the testing process.”

Bird Eats Bug had raised a single seed round of $1.83 million from Nauta Capital V.C. SGEIC S.A. in January of 2021, according to Tracxn.

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