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Tracking down elusive intermittent failures

  • US 7,788,540 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2007
  • Issued: 08/31/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

  • monitoring a plurality of computing environments that are each executing a software program for notification of occurrences of a failure during execution of the software program in each of the computing environments;

    wherein the failure is an intermittent failure that does not occur each time a same instruction or group of instructions executes within the software program;

    recording failure information associated with each of the occurrences of the failure, the failure information including;

    identification of the software program; and

    a failure type describing the failure; and

    quantifying the failure information to maintain a total of at least one of a number of times;

    the software program has failed; and

    the failure type has been recorded; and

    ranking a number of times the software program has experienced the occurrences of failures in each of the computing environments and using the ranking to determine when to address the failure.

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