Breakpad

Breakpad Integration into Mozilla

Breakpad is a set of libraries for client-side crash reporting. This page talks about integrating breakpad with Mozilla products. Breakpad was formerly called airbag. The libraries are being developed as a narrowly scoped Google code project. The breakpad libraries do not provide any crash-reporting UI, nor do they provide a server.

Our implementation has three parts:

• Client integration to handle crash reporting so a central server can aggregate crash data to help improve our products.
• A server that collects and processes collected crash data and uses a symbol server to convert raw dumps into readable stack traces. The processor can insert the resulting data into a database.
• A web interface for viewing and parsing crash reports, called Socorro.

More information, source code, and mailing lists for breakpad library development can be found at the Breakpad Project Site.

Pages

• Goals for Breakpad Hackathon

• Spreadsheet of Milestones and Tasks
• Breakpad/Design (Design and planning information)
• Status Meetings (Agendas/Minutes)
• Current Implementation -- The status of what has been implemented so far.
• Feature List -- What do we want our Breakpad web interface to do?

Integration Team

The following people are actively working on Breakpad integration:

• luser (client and build systems)
• morgamic (server)
• aravind (IT)
• sayrer (server)
• dcamp (client)
• jay (QA requirements and data collection)
• bsmedberg (planning and pinch-hitting)

Other help is always appreciated! If you don't know where to start, talk to bsmedberg.

See Also

• Seneca College Airbag Page -- Read about Seneca's work with Breakpad.
• http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2006-09-12/deploying-the-airbag/
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Breakpad