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Crash report

Meaning in mobile app development, with examples

nounCore term

In mobile app development, crash report means: A 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.

In Turkish: çökme raporu, crash raporu

How it is used

Developers read, symbolicate and group crash reports in tools such as Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry, Xcode Organizer and Google Play vitals. To make the reports readable, iOS teams upload dSYM files and Android teams upload R8 or ProGuard mapping files.

Example sentences

  1. The crash report shows a null value on the checkout screen.

  2. We get hundreds of crash reports from just one device model.

Common collocations

  • read a crash report
  • crash reporting tool
  • symbolicate a crash report
  • send crash reports
  • crashA sudden failure that makes an app close unexpectedly, usually because of an error in the code that the app could not handle.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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