Patent ID: 8088011

Claim:
A computer program testing method, comprising: launching a game program for testing on a game console, the game console being a dedicated computing device configured for home entertainment, wherein the game console omits a printer communication port and the game console omits an internal hardware expansion slot; responsive to the launching, the game console creating a unique session identifier (ID) for the game program; executing the game program on the game console, the executing game program being associated with the unique session ID; detecting an error in the game program that is executing; responsive to detecting the error in the game program that is executing, receiving, from a device connected to the game console, an indication to activate a debugging dump trigger command, wherein the debugging dump trigger command includes an identification of a physical game console memory address range whose data is to be included in a requested data dump and a requested dump destination; in response to receipt of the debugging dump trigger command: collecting data from the physical game console memory address range; and transmitting the collected data to the requested dump destination; and indexing the collected data at the dump destination, wherein the indexing is based at least on the unique session ID with which the collected data are associated.