Learn why crash reporting is crucial for software development teams, how uncaught crashes can harm your application's reputation, and the financial consequences of ignoring end-user defects.
BugSplat's auto-grouping feature groups similar crashes together so developers can focus on the most serious issues. Customizable auto-group rule
Finding and fixing bugs is a critical part of the development process, both in development and production, but is it possible to be more effective in less time?
A poll of thousands of software industry members conducted by Stripe revealed
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Crash Grouping Concepts
BugSplat groups related crashes together to make analysis easier. You can see the crashes reported by groups on our Summary page. The name of each crash group corresponds to the stack frame used to group the crashes.
Culture and Growth
How often should you clean you keyboard?
For many of us, our computer is the central touchpoint of our working lives. We spend hours each day typing away as we work, bringing back everything we've touched while grabbing a snack, running to the bathroom, working out at lunch, or taking a break with some coworkers.
Are you looking to get better insight into crashes and errors in your Unreal Engine project? Look no further than crash reporting from BugSplat. Our powerful toolset helps you quickly identify and fix game crashes, allowing you to focus on creating the best possible gaming experience for your users.
What goes into building your own or purchasing a crash or error reporting tool? Here are some of the critical things to consider before taking the next step.
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Crash Course in Crash Grouping
Supporting large applications with enormous crash volumes can be a real pain in the hindquarters. It is extraordinarily difficult for organizations to optimally dispatch engineering resources without excellent data and proper tooling. At BugSplat, we recently upgraded the tooling we provide to developers so that they can group related crashes
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We made some playlists to power your workday
Three awesome playlists to kick start your day, help you find the groove, or kick back at the end of a long work week.
Discover the top 10 benefits of using crash reporting software for developers. Learn how it can save time, improve user experience, and increase revenue. Try BugSplat's free trial today.
Just for fun
What was the Great Video Game Crash of 1983?
At BugSplat, we are passionate about preventing software and video game crashes—but not all crashes are caused by bugs in code! In the early 80’s the video game industry was booming in North America - the price of home consoles had dropped, and the demand for new video games was skyrocketing.
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What Was the World’s First Video Game?
On a fall day in mid-October 1958, a nuclear physicist, Dr. William “Willy” Higinbotham, prepared something special for the visitors of Brookhaven National Laboratory’s annual public exhibition. At that event he unwittingly created what might be the worlds first video game.
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Crash Grouping and Aggregation in Search
BugSplat recently added Crash Grouping and Aggregation in Search. Grouping crashes provides new insight into your product's stability and allows you to prioritize fixes based on a wide variety of criteria. To try out this new feature, navigate to the Crashes page.
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How to Build Google Crashpad
Crashpad is a cross-platform system for end-to-end crash reporting. Crashpad supports reporting of native crashes on a variety of operating systems including Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. Crashpad also provides tools such as dump_syms, symupload and minidump_stackwalk that provide developers with function names, file names, and line
Crash Report Client is an Unreal Engine tool that allows developers to capture C++ crash reports from supported platforms. At crash time, a dialog is shown to the user so that they may add comments or replication steps to the details of the report. Once the crash report is submitted,
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Quickly determine how many users experienced a crash
BugSplat recently added Crash Grouping and Aggregation in Search. Grouping crashes provides new insight into your product's stability and allows you to prioritize fixes based on a wide variety of criteria. To try out this new feature, navigate to the Crashes page.
Just for fun
Why NASA's Code Doesn't Crash
You’re typing away on your computer, minding your own business when your application freezes. There’s that moment of panic, maybe the software’s just be
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Support for Crashpad Attachments
BugSplat now supports attachments for Crashpad out of the box. Developers can include additional files with the Crashpad crash upload using the newest release of the BugSplat Crashpad SDK.
Culture and Growth
Improve productivity while working at home
Eight simple suggestions for helping you stay focused and feeling good while working all day on your computer.
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Improving technical support with crash data
One of the most cost-effective and efficient ways to build and grow your tech business is to provide exceptional support to your users.
BugSplat now includes local variables and function arguments for our Windows Native, Unity, and Unreal C++ integrations.
By including local variables and function arguments, we can provide another level of contextual information about the cause of your crash.
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The problems with user-reported bugs
Getting feedback from your users is an incredibly important part of the development and support process. However, traditional methods of learning about your critical defects are often not sufficient for producing great software.
