NBS Minimal BASIC Test Programs: Version 2, User's Manual, Issue 500, Part 1 - Issue 570, Part 1U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, 1980 |
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... Test Programs As Test Data , Not Algorithms The test programs do not embody some definitive algorithm by which the ... passed test shows that it may be . A long series of passed tests which seem to cover all the various aspects of the ...
... Test Programs As Test Data , Not Algorithms The test programs do not embody some definitive algorithm by which the ... passed test shows that it may be . A long series of passed tests which seem to cover all the various aspects of the ...
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... pass the test because of a flaw in the implementation of the feature whose validity is implicitly being assumed . Furthermore , when a test does report a failure , it is not clear whether the true cause of the failure was the feature under ...
... pass the test because of a flaw in the implementation of the feature whose validity is implicitly being assumed . Furthermore , when a test does report a failure , it is not clear whether the true cause of the failure was the feature under ...
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... test results ; but minimization is not elimination . In the best case , the program will print out a conspicuous message indicating that the test passed or failed , and you need only interpret this message correctly . In other cases ...
... test results ; but minimization is not elimination . In the best case , the program will print out a conspicuous message indicating that the test passed or failed , and you need only interpret this message correctly . In other cases ...
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... pass / fail message ( described below ) and other program output indicates when a test is informative and not mandatory . All the informative tests have to do with the quality ( as opposed to the existence ) of various mathematical ...
... pass / fail message ( described below ) and other program output indicates when a test is informative and not mandatory . All the informative tests have to do with the quality ( as opposed to the existence ) of various mathematical ...
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... TEST PASSED *** " or " *** TEST FAILED 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 ...
... TEST PASSED *** " or " *** TEST FAILED 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 ...
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72 characters 8.4 PROGRAM NUMBER algorithm allowed ANSI ANSI standard argument assignment BASIC Test Programs behavior Computer Science context Control Statements correctly DEF statement division by zero documentation endif error measure error programs ERROR REFS error tests EVALUATION OF NUMERIC Exception Handling EXCEPTION REFS exception report exception tests execution FOR-BLOCKS FOR-STATEMENT functional group GOSUB and RETURN GOTO Implementation Conformance implementation-defined features Informative Tests INPUT exception input-reply internal interpretation keyword language standard LINE-NUMBERS machine infinity Minimal BASIC Test non-fatal exceptions NUMERIC CONSTANTS NUMERIC EXPRESSIONS ON-GOTO operations OPTION BASE pass/fail message passes or fails PBASIC PRINT processor FAILS PROGRAM NUMBER EXCEPTION program output programming language programs test pseudorandom QUOTED STRINGS CONTAINING recovery procedure reply requirements RND FUNCTION rules Science and Technology self-checking semantic significand simple software testing source code specified Standard Capabilities standard program syntax test fails TEST PASSED test system UNDERFLOW USER-DEFINED FUNCTION Version ZERO