NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Volume 13U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1980 |
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... behavior even when presented with unreasonable programs follows directly from the design goal of solicitude towards the beginning or casual user . Thus , the standard takes care to define what happens if the user commits any of a number ...
... behavior even when presented with unreasonable programs follows directly from the design goal of solicitude towards the beginning or casual user . Thus , the standard takes care to define what happens if the user commits any of a number ...
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... behavior specified by the language standard . That is , the implementation must make the proper connection between the syntax of the program and the operation of the computer system . system . Note that this is a black box description ...
... behavior specified by the language standard . That is , the implementation must make the proper connection between the syntax of the program and the operation of the computer system . system . Note that this is a black box description ...
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... behavior we wish to probe , the underlying motivation for their structure becomes intelligible . Simply put , it is the goal of the tests to exercise at least one representative of every meaningfully distinct type of syntactic structure ...
... behavior we wish to probe , the underlying motivation for their structure becomes intelligible . Simply put , it is the goal of the tests to exercise at least one representative of every meaningfully distinct type of syntactic structure ...
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... behavior processor PASSES else processor FAILS ( incorrect interpretation ) endif else processor FAILS ( rejects standard program ) endif else ( program non - standard ) if program accepted by processor if non - standard feature ...
... behavior processor PASSES else processor FAILS ( incorrect interpretation ) endif else processor FAILS ( rejects standard program ) endif else ( program non - standard ) if program accepted by processor if non - standard feature ...
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... behavior by the user . As mentioned earlier , the user is an active component in the test system ; the source code of the test programs is another component , subordinate to the test user . An important goal in the design of the ...
... behavior by the user . As mentioned earlier , the user is an active component in the test system ; the source code of the test programs is another component , subordinate to the test user . An important goal in the design of the ...
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8.4 PROGRAM NUMBER algorithm allows ANSI BASIC ANSI standard argument assignment Backus-Naur Form BASIC Test Programs behavior computer languages correctly decimal digits defined division by zero error programs ERROR REFS error tests Exception Handling exception report exception tests execution FOR-blocks FOR-STATEMENT FORTRAN functional group GOTO handling implementation accepts IMPLEMENTATION CONFORMANCE implementation of BASIC implementation-defined features informative tests input-reply interpretation language standard line number machine infinity measure Minimal BASIC Test non-fatal exceptions non-standard construction non-standard programs Note NUMERIC CONSTANTS NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS ON-GOTO operations OPTION BASE pass/fail message PASSES else processor passing or failing PBASIC processor FAILS processor PASSES program conformance program is standard program output programming language recovery procedure reject REM statement requirements RND FUNCTION rules sample output self-checking semantic meaning significand simple source code specified Standard Capabilities standard program syntax test fails TEST PASSED test sequence test system UNDERFLOW University of Kent USER-DEFINED FUNCTION Version zeros