US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on April 8 for "Remote debugging sessions for flaky tests" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,290, issued on April 8, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Remote debugging sessions for flaky tests" was invented by Matt Landis (Bothell, Wash.) and Victor Robertson (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Build, execution, and testing on software may be performed remotely on cluster infrastructure. Tests can be scheduled on workers in the cluster infrastructure, and results of the tests are reported to the developer. If a test fails, the developer may receive an exit code from the failed test. For tests that are flaky, an exit code provides little to no benefit to identify the cause of the flakiness. To...