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 . Note that this is a black box description of the ...
... 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 . Note that this is a black box description of the ...
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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 ...
Common terms and phrases
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