Every test has an Advanced Settings page that holds the optional settings for that one test: who gets email notifications, which colleagues can see it, whether it pushes issues to Jira, whether it opens a discussion forum, and whether you can share files securely with testers.
Nothing on this page is required to launch a test, but each section changes how you and your team work through it.
To open it, go to a test and click Advanced Settings in the left menu. Every section starts collapsed, so click a heading to open it. What you see depends on your access level, your plan, and the type of test, so you may not see all of the sections below.
Notifications
The first group of checkboxes sets what BetaTesting emails you about for this test. Tick any of them to get an email each time the event happens:
New issue submissions
Issue comments for issues that you watch
Messages & replies
Survey submissions
System notifications, which covers alerts that the test end date is approaching, reminders to review testers before the review period ends, and changes to invite status
Below those is Receive a daily digest, a nightly summary of new activity across every test you manage. That one is a company-wide setting rather than a per-test one, so changing it here changes it everywhere.
Read-only admins can see these settings but cannot change them.
Daily Digest Example:
Invite Your Team: Setting Admins
Click Add Team Member to give a colleague access. You enter their name, their email address, and an access level:
Admin gives full functionality.
Customer Support can message testers, respond to issues, and view all results, but cannot edit the test instructions or settings.
Read-only can view results only.
If you have set up business groups in your company settings, you can also assign the person to a group so they only reach that group's tests. Your plan sets how many team members you can add, so the button is disabled once you reach the limit.
Test template
This feature is only available on select plans
Tick Use as template to mark the test as a template so it can be cloned when new tests are created from your community. This section only appears if templates are included in your plan.
Integrate with Jira
If you use Jira for your bug tracking, you can integrate directly to manually or automatically push all bug reports to Jira directly. This can be done on a test by test basis so you can map fields and Jira boards accurately.
Discourse integration
Tick Create a Discourse forum for this test upon test launch to give your testers a private discussion forum that opens when the test goes live. If forums are not included in your plan, the option is disabled and BetaTesting invites you to contact the team.
This section is visible to full admins only.
Secure file directory
Click Setup Secure Files to upload files you want to share with testers through links or a file directory rather than a public download. This section appears on multi-session tests before they go live. Once a test is live, secure files move out of Advanced Settings and become a Secure Files item in the test's left menu.