NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Volume 13 |
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Since these programs are syntactically standard and raise no exception conditions , they must be accepted and executed to completion by the implementation . If the implementation fails to do this , it has failed the test .
Since these programs are syntactically standard and raise no exception conditions , they must be accepted and executed to completion by the implementation . If the implementation fails to do this , it has failed the test .
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4.4.3 Documentation There are three kinds of documentation in the test serving three complementary purposes : 1 . ... or " *** TEST FAILED If the test cannot diagnose its own behavior , it will print a conditional pass / fail message ...
4.4.3 Documentation There are three kinds of documentation in the test serving three complementary purposes : 1 . ... or " *** TEST FAILED If the test cannot diagnose its own behavior , it will print a conditional pass / fail message ...
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If the output looks scrambled , the test has failed . There are no helpful diagnostics for failures since it is impossible to anticipate exactly how a processor might misinterpret transfers of control . Look carefully at the sample ...
If the output looks scrambled , the test has failed . There are no helpful diagnostics for failures since it is impossible to anticipate exactly how a processor might misinterpret transfers of control . Look carefully at the sample ...
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If the processor in some way rejects the reply , for instance by producing a message that it is not a valid number , then the processor has failed the test since all the replies are in fact valid according to the standard .
If the processor in some way rejects the reply , for instance by producing a message that it is not a valid number , then the processor has failed the test since all the replies are in fact valid according to the standard .
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... ( exactly enough to satisfy original INPUT request ) if processor responds that test passed then test passed else ( no pass message after entering zeros ) zeros not assigned to variables test failed ( recovery procedure not followed ) ...
... ( exactly enough to satisfy original INPUT request ) if processor responds that test passed then test passed else ( no pass message after entering zeros ) zeros not assigned to variables test failed ( recovery procedure not followed ) ...
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20 PRINT 40 PRINT SECTION ACCEPT THE PROGRAM ACCOMPANIED BY DOCUMENTATION ACCURACY ACTUAL ALLOWING ANSI STANDARD ARGUMENT ARRAY ASSIGNED BASIC TEST PROGRAMS CHARACTERS COLUMN COMPUTED CONSTANTS CONTAINING CONTROL DATA DIGITS DISPLAYED END END TEST ENTER ERROR EVALUATION EXACT EXECUTION EXPECTED FOLLOWING FUNCTION GOSUB GOTO IDENTIFYING THE EXCEPTION implementation INFORMATIVE TEST INPUT INPUT-REPLY ITEM LINE LOOP MEASURE MESSAGE IDENTIFYING MINIMAL BASIC TEST NBS MINIMAL BASIC NEGATIVE NON-STANDARD FEATURE NOTE NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS OCCUR OK OK OK operations ORDER OUTPUT OVERFLOW PASS THIS TEST POSITIVE PRINT 40 PRINT PRINT BEGIN TEST PRINT END PROGRAM PRINT END TEST PRINT PROGRAM FILE PRINT THIS SECTION PRINT TO PASS PROCESSOR PROGRAM NUMBER PROGRAM TESTS PROGRAMS USER'S MANUAL READ REFERENCE REFS REJECT THE PROGRAM REPORTED RESULT RETURN RND FUNCTION SECTION TESTS SPACE STATEMENT STEP STRING SUBSCRIPT SUPPLIED TERMINATE TEST FAILED TEST OK TEST PASSED TYPE UNDERFLOW VALUE VARIABLE ZERO
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| Title | NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Volume 13 NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Center for Programming Science and Technology (Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology) Volume 500, Issues 70-72 of NBS special publication NBS special publication: Computer science & technology |
| Author | John V. Cugini |
| Contributors | Center for Programming Science and Technology (Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology), United States. National Bureau of Standards |
| Publisher | U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 21 Nov 2007 |
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