Crash reporter

These reports help software developers- Web, SAAS, mobile apps and more, to diagnose and fix the underlying problem causing the crashes.

Companies such as Twitter, Google and others are putting a lot of efforts on encouraging software developers to use their APIs, knowing this will increase their revenues down the road (through advertisements and other mechanisms).

As they realize that they must offer elegant solutions for as many as possible development issues, otherwise their competitors will take actions, they keep adding advanced features.

Crash reporting tools make an important development functionality that giant companies include in their portfolio of solutions.

It consists of diagnostic information that helps the company or development team responsible for the crash to debug and resolve the issue if they choose to do so.

The system considers all parts of the debug and release process, such that targeted bug fixes can be applied through Windows Update.

According to Der Spiegel, the Microsoft crash reporter has been exploited by NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit to hack into the computers of Mexico's Secretariat of Public Security.

According to the same source, Microsoft crash reports are automatically harvested in NSA's XKeyscore database, in order to facilitate such operations.

CrashRpt library is a light-weight open source error handling framework for applications created in Microsoft Visual C++ and running under Windows.

CrashRpt also provides a server-side command line tool for crash report analysis named crprober.

[4] ABRT intercepts core dumps or tracebacks from applications and (after user-confirmation) sends bug reports to various bug-tracking systems, such as Fedora Bugzilla [1].

If the user chooses to report the crash, the details (possibly including a core dump) will be uploaded to an Ubuntu server (daisy.ubuntu.com) for analysis.

Crashpad currently consists of a crash-reporting client and some related tools for macOS and Windows, and is considered substantially complete for those platforms.