Crash

How it is used

Used as a noun and a verb: the app crashes on launch, a crash on Android 12, fix a crash. Teams track crashes with tools such as Firebase Crashlytics or Sentry, and the most frequent crashes are often the first items in a bug-fix release.

Example sentences

1. The app crashes when you rotate the phone on the payment screen.

2. This crash affects only users with very old Samsung devices.

Common collocations

• crash on launch
• fix a crash
• crash rate
• reproduce a crash

Related terms

• crash reportA record created when an app crashes, showing the error, the stack trace, the device, the OS version and other details that help developers find the cause.
• stack traceA list of the function calls that were active when an error or crash happened, which shows developers exactly where in the code it occurred.
• crash-free rateThe percentage of users or sessions that did not experience a crash in a given period; a key measure of an app's stability.
• ANRApplication Not Responding: an Android error shown when an app's main thread is blocked for too long, for example about five seconds without responding to a touch.
• debugTo find and fix the cause of a bug, for example by running the app step by step, checking logs or stopping the code at a breakpoint.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• crash · Software Engineering
• crash · Game Development

More terms: Testing, Crashes and Performance

• analytics
• memory leak
• device fragmentation
• UI test
• battery drain
• app size