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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... failed test shows that a language implementation is not standard . passed test shows that it may be . A long series of passed tests which seem to cover all the various aspects of the language gives us a large measure of confidence that ...
... failed test shows that a language implementation is not standard . passed test shows that it may be . A long series of passed tests which seem to cover all the various aspects of the language gives us a large measure of confidence that ...
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... failure , it is not clear whether the true cause of the failure was the feature under test or one of the untested features being used . we These considerations seemed compelling enough that decided to order the tests according to the ...
... failure , it is not clear whether the true cause of the failure was the feature under test or one of the untested features being used . we These considerations seemed compelling enough that decided to order the tests according to the ...
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... failed , and you need only interpret this message correctly . In other cases , you have to examine rather carefully the results and behavior of the program , and must apply the rules of the standard yourself . This interpretation is ...
... failed , and you need only interpret this message correctly . In other cases , you have to examine rather carefully the results and behavior of the program , and must apply the rules of the standard yourself . This interpretation is ...
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... failing at the end of each section . section . The paragraph below on documentation describes the concept of ... failed the test . For example , if the implementation fails to recognize the key word OPTION , or if it does not accept one ...
... failing at the end of each section . section . The paragraph below on documentation describes the concept of ... failed the test . For example , if the implementation fails to recognize the key word OPTION , or if it does not accept one ...
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... FAILED *** " 1 If the test cannot diagnose its own behavior , it will print a conditional pass / fail message , prefacing the standard message with a description of what must or must not have happened for the test to pass . Be careful ...
... FAILED *** " 1 If the test cannot diagnose its own behavior , it will print a conditional pass / fail message , prefacing the standard message with a description of what must or must not have happened for the test to pass . Be careful ...
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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