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Charles D McClintock

Ramesh Thimmarajarasu Bangalore

Jared W Wilson

Neelanjana Sachdev

Michael Paul Robinson

Peter Gerber

Carlo Rivera

Sushma Ashwin Rao

Aaron R Birnbaum

Scott Garrett Thompson

Dipak Boyed

Si Latt

Dhruv Malhotra

A system to obtain multiple feedback inquiries associated with an application and to ensure that at least a minimum duration passes between successive inquiries being shown to a user. The system may receive dynamic inquiries from an inquiry server that is external to the client device running the application and also receive static inquiries included within computer code of the application. The system may order (e.g., rank) the multiple inquiries according to priority to generate a prioritized inquiry sequence. The system may then refrain from exposing low priority inquiries if higher priority inquiries have yet to be exposed to solicit user input. Individual inquiries can include a classifier to enable the system to determine associations between discrete inquiries and to govern a rate at which groups of associated inquiries are shown to a user.

Dynamic governance of exposing inquiries and notifications at client devices

Systems and methods for controlling delivery of surveys associated with a software application at a client device. One system includes a client device having an interface, a memory, and an electronic processor. The interface is configured to receive a survey including a survey item and a survey rule defining when the survey item is to be delivered to a user of the client device. The memory is configured to store the survey. The electronic processor is configured to execute the software application and receive a log of events associated with the execution of the software application. The electronic processor is also configured to access the survey stored in the memory, determine when the log of events satisfies the survey rule, and deliver the survey item to the user in response to the log of events satisfying the survey rule.

Client-side survey control

Detecting machine utilization activity may be provided. Client machine activity within a computer network may be monitored to determine if the client machine is available for use, or if the computer is already engaged in one or more activities. During a predetermined receive period, machine activity information for a given client machine. The machine activity information for the client machine is compared to previously stored machine activity information to determine if an activity state for the client machine has changed. If the activity state of the client machine has changed, the activity state for the machine is updated. Machine activity information for all computers in the computer network may be used to track and optimize resources with the computer network.

Detecting machine utilization activity

Software (such as server products) operating in a complex networked environment often run on multi-machine installations that are known as machine clusters. A server product can be tested on a server machine type. The server product can be tested by tracking the constituent machines of a machine cluster, and configuring and recording the roles that each machine in the machine cluster plays. Scenarios targeting a single server machine-type can be seamlessly mapped from the single machine scenario to a machine cluster of any number of machines, while handling actions such as executing tests and gathering log files from all machines of a machine cluster as a unit.

Machine cluster topology representation for automated testing

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