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Crash report

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCore term

In software engineering, 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
  • crashTo stop working suddenly because of an error, so that the program closes or stops responding. Also a noun: 'a crash'.
  • stack traceA report printed when an error happens, listing the chain of function calls that led to it, with file names and line numbers.
  • 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 search for the cause of a problem in a program and remove it, often by running the code step by step and checking values.

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