WP App Lifecycle Series – Maintaining Your Apps: Dealing with Crashes

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As much as we all try, some of our apps crash.  The more complex your app, the more libraries it includes, the more toolkits you utilize, the higher the risk of a crash when the user runs your apps.

We have all been guilty of it, I found out recently that I had an app that crashed all the time according to the users, but in my testing, I never did see a crash.  This actually speaks of a different problem, testing your own software.   If you can, get other people to test your software, preferably a mix of designers, software developers and most importantly, n00bs, neophytes and technophobes .  The latter group will give you the best bang for your buck because they will do things to/with your software that you would never dream of and, guess what?  They are actually your audience!!!  You are building this software for them if you are trying to make money with it!

Now, back to the crashes.  Horrible things, but they need to be dealt with.  Bugs, we gotta squash 'em.   Here's how to get a pretty accurate account of what is happening to your poor users.

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