This library provides the ability to parse, inspect, and manipulate stack traces produced by the underlying Dart implementation. It also provides functions to produce string representations of stack traces in a more readable format than the native [StackTrace] implementation. `Trace`s can be parsed from native [StackTrace]s using `Trace.from`, or captured using `Trace.current`. Native [StackTrace]s can also be directly converted to human-readable strings using `Trace.format`. [StackTrace]: http://api.dartlang.org/docs/releases/latest/dart_core/StackTrace.html Here's an example native stack trace from debugging this library: #0 Object.noSuchMethod (dart:core-patch:1884:25) #1 Trace.terse. (file:///usr/local/google-old/home/goog/dart/dart/pkg/stack_trace/lib/src/trace.dart:47:21) #2 IterableMixinWorkaround.reduce (dart:collection:29:29) #3 List.reduce (dart:core-patch:1247:42) #4 Trace.terse (file:///usr/local/google-old/home/goog/dart/dart/pkg/stack_trace/lib/src/trace.dart:40:35) #5 format (file:///usr/local/google-old/home/goog/dart/dart/pkg/stack_trace/lib/stack_trace.dart:24:28) #6 main. (file:///usr/local/google-old/home/goog/dart/dart/test.dart:21:29) #7 _CatchErrorFuture._sendError (dart:async:525:24) #8 _FutureImpl._setErrorWithoutAsyncTrace (dart:async:393:26) #9 _FutureImpl._setError (dart:async:378:31) #10 _ThenFuture._sendValue (dart:async:490:16) #11 _FutureImpl._handleValue. (dart:async:349:28) #12 Timer.run. (dart:async:2402:21) #13 Timer.Timer. (dart:async-patch:15:15) and its human-readable representation: dart:core-patch Object.noSuchMethod pkg/stack_trace/lib/src/trace.dart 47:21 Trace.terse. dart:collection IterableMixinWorkaround.reduce dart:core-patch List.reduce pkg/stack_trace/lib/src/trace.dart 40:35 Trace.terse pkg/stack_trace/lib/stack_trace.dart 24:28 format test.dart 21:29 main. dart:async _CatchErrorFuture._sendError dart:async _FutureImpl._setErrorWithoutAsyncTrace dart:async _FutureImpl._setError dart:async _ThenFuture._sendValue dart:async _FutureImpl._handleValue. dart:async Timer.run. dart:async-patch Timer.Timer. You can further clean up the stack trace using `Trace.terse`. This folds together multiple stack frames from the Dart core libraries, so that only the core library method that was directly called from user code is visible. For example: dart:core Object.noSuchMethod pkg/stack_trace/lib/src/trace.dart 47:21 Trace.terse. dart:core List.reduce pkg/stack_trace/lib/src/trace.dart 40:35 Trace.terse pkg/stack_trace/lib/stack_trace.dart 24:28 format test.dart 21:29 main. dart:async Timer.Timer.