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Software Engineering vocabulary · Debugging and Troubleshooting

Stack trace

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈstæk treɪs/nounCommon term

In software engineering, stack trace means: A report printed when an error happens, listing the chain of function calls that led to it, with file names and line numbers.

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How it is used

Developers paste stack traces into tickets and chat: 'Here's the full stack trace.' When reading one, you look for the first line that points to your own code rather than to a library.

Example sentences

  1. Can you paste the full stack trace? The last line alone doesn't help.

  2. The stack trace points to line 88 in OrderService.

Common collocations

  • full stack trace
  • read a stack trace
  • paste the stack trace
  • the stack trace points to
  • exceptionAn error event that interrupts the normal flow of a program. The code can catch and handle it, or it can make the program crash.
  • crashTo stop working suddenly because of an error, so that the program closes or stops responding. Also a noun: 'a crash'.
  • logA record of events, messages and errors that a program writes while it runs, used later to understand what happened. Also a verb: to log an error.
  • 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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