The primary purpose of a stack trace is to be used in debugging to help developers locate the exact line of code and the sequence of function calls that led to a specific error, exception, or crash.
In practice, it is a list that shows the call stack—the history of nested function calls—starting from the currently executing function (where the error occurred) and tracing backward to the function that initially called it, and so on, back to the program's entry point.
Each line in the stack trace represents a stack frame and typically includes:
In practice, it is a list that shows the call stack—the history of nested function calls—starting from the currently executing function (where the error occurred) and tracing backward to the function that initially called it, and so on, back to the program's entry point.
Each line in the stack trace represents a stack frame and typically includes:
- The function or method name.
- The file name where the function is defined.
- The line number within that file.
In summary, the developers use stack traces to find what part of the code caused a failure.
