inessential by Brent Simmons

A Rant About Stack Traces

Rusty Rants:

Yes I know, ha ha Null Pointer, Java, LOL. But that’s an exact line number friends. What did the user do? They tapped the subscribe button. Which page where they on? The Podcast Dialog. Zero ambiguity. Guess how many of our Android crashes we get that for? 100%. In iOS we’d be lucky if even 30% of our crashes had stack traces we can line up to actual things we can then reproduce.

Via Michael Tsai. (I’ve said before and I’ll keep saying that you should subscribe to Michael’s feed. If I had to cut my subscriptions down to two, I’d go with Michael’s blog and Daring Fireball.)