US 10,120,779 B1Granted

Debugging of hosted computer programs

AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.

InventorsHok Peng Leung, Antonio Vargas Garcia, Geoffrey Scott Pare

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Abstract

Techniques for debugging of hosted computer programs are described herein. Execution of a set of instances of a computer program may be hosted by a service on behalf of a developer. The developer may indicate one or more error conditions and an amount of program instances to be monitored for the error conditions. The error conditions may include breakpoints, processing conditions, memory conditions, network packet conditions, and others. A subset of the program instances may be monitored for an error conditions. An error condition may then be detected at a first program instance. A notification of the occurrence of the error condition may be provided to the developer along with information for connecting to the first program instance. The developer may connect to and debug the first program instance, and may also access information such as a memory dump, performance logs, network packet information, and more.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more memories having stored therein instructions that, upon execution, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first indication of an error condition for which to monitor a hosted interactive program, wherein the error condition comprises at least one of a breakpoint, a processing condition, a memory condition, or a network packet condition, and wherein the hosted interactive program has a set of program instances whose execution is hosted by a service;
receiving a second indication of an amount program instances to monitor for the error condition and of a quantity of occurrences of the error condition to detect;
selecting, based at least in part on the second indication, a subset of program instances from the set of program instances to monitor for the error condition;
monitoring the subset of program instances for the error condition up until the quantity of occurrences of the error condition are detected, wherein a count of detected error condition occurrences is maintained;
detecting an occurrence of the error condition in association with a first program instance of the subset of program instances;
providing a notification of the occurrence of the error condition;
providing information for connecting to the first program instance for debugging of the first program instance;
and
providing information associated with the occurrence of the error condition, wherein the information comprises at least one of memory dump information, performance log information, network packet information, or custom administrative information.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.