diff --git a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensight_grpc.py b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensight_grpc.py
index e24269546c1..4eeb9384408 100644
--- a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensight_grpc.py
+++ b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensight_grpc.py
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ def _metadata(self) -> List[Tuple[bytes, Union[str, bytes]]]:
             if type(s) == str:
                 s = s.encode("utf-8")
             ret.append((b"shared_secret", s))
-        if self._session_name:
-            s = self._session_name.encode("utf-8")
+        if self.session_name:
+            s = self.session_name.encode("utf-8")
             ret.append((b"session_name", s))
         return ret
 
diff --git a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensobj.py b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensobj.py
index 876ed3b4d74..12725f6e5d2 100644
--- a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensobj.py
+++ b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/ensobj.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def __del__(self):
             try:
                 cmd = f"ensight.objs.release_id('{tmp_session.name}', {self.__OBJID__})"
                 tmp_session.cmd(cmd, do_eval=False)
-            except Exception:
+            except Exception:  # pragma: no cover
                 # This could happen at any time, including outside
                 # the scope of the session, so we need to be
                 # ready for any error.
diff --git a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/listobj.py b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/listobj.py
index b5178b3c70d..39abc1f45ad 100644
--- a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/listobj.py
+++ b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/listobj.py
@@ -161,7 +161,6 @@ def set_attr(self, attr: Any, value: Any) -> int:
         >>> session.ensight.objs.core.PARTS.set_attr("VISIBLE", True)
 
         """
-        objid_list = []
         session = None
         objid_list = [x.__OBJID__ for x in self if isinstance(x, ENSOBJ)]
         for item in self:
diff --git a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/session.py b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/session.py
index eb4c23a306e..f77f6d4ee1b 100644
--- a/src/ansys/pyensight/core/session.py
+++ b/src/ansys/pyensight/core/session.py
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ def _check_rest_connection(self) -> None:
             except Exception:
                 pass
             time.sleep(0.5)
-        raise RuntimeError("Unable to establish a REST connection to EnSight.")
+        raise RuntimeError("Unable to establish a REST connection to EnSight.")  # pragma: no cover
 
     @property
     def name(self) -> str:
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ def close(self) -> None:
         if self.cei_suffix >= "242":
             try:
                 self._release_remote_objects()
-            except RuntimeError:
+            except RuntimeError:  # pragma: no cover
                 # handle some intermediate EnSight builds.
                 pass
         if self._launcher and self._halt_ensight_on_close:
diff --git a/tests/example_tests/test_remote_objects.py b/tests/example_tests/test_remote_objects.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c7e0b7a9afa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/example_tests/test_remote_objects.py
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+from ansys.pyensight.core import DockerLauncher, LocalLauncher
+
+import gc
+import pytest
+
+
+def test_remote_objects(tmpdir, pytestconfig: pytest.Config):
+    data_dir = tmpdir.mkdir("datadir")
+    use_local = pytestconfig.getoption("use_local_launcher")
+    if use_local:
+        launcher = LocalLauncher()
+    else:
+        launcher = DockerLauncher(data_directory=data_dir, use_dev=True)
+    session = launcher.start()
+    session.load_data(f"{session.cei_home}/ensight{session.cei_suffix}/data/guard_rail/crash.case")
+
+    # call __str__ on an ENSOBJ object w/o DESCRIPTION attribute (for coverage)
+    print(session.ensight.objs.core)
+    
+    if session.cei_suffix >= "242":
+        # Create an ENS_GROUP object (a remote object)
+        g = session.ensight.objs.core.PARTS.find('*rail*', wildcard=1, group=1)
+        assert "ENS_GROUP" in g.__str__(), "ensobjlist.find() did not return an ENS_GROUP instance"
+        assert "Owned" in g.__str__(), "Remote ENS_GROUP is not 'Owned'"
+        assert "Owned" not in g.CHILDREN.__str__(), "Objects in ENS_GROUP are incorrectly 'Owned'"
+
+        # Exercise the custom __del__() method
+        g = None
+        gc.collect()
+
+    session.close()