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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... Simply put , it is the goal of the tests to exercise at least one representative of every meaningfully distinct type of syntactic structure or semantic provided for in the language standard . This strategy is characteristic of testing ...
... Simply put , it is the goal of the tests to exercise at least one representative of every meaningfully distinct type of syntactic structure or semantic provided for in the language standard . This strategy is characteristic of testing ...
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... simply fails to execute the program at all . A processor implicitly accepts a program if the processor encounters all constructions within the program with no indication to the user that the program contains constructions ruled out by ...
... simply fails to execute the program at all . A processor implicitly accepts a program if the processor encounters all constructions within the program with no indication to the user that the program contains constructions ruled out by ...
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... simply to test the language features in the order they appear in the standard itself . The major problem with this strategy is that the tests must then use untested features in order to exercise the features of immediate interest . This ...
... simply to test the language features in the order they appear in the standard itself . The major problem with this strategy is that the tests must then use untested features in order to exercise the features of immediate interest . This ...
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... simply repeat information contained in the tests themselves , except for emphasis . Where the tests require considerable user interpretation , this documentation will give you the needed background information . Where the tests are self ...
... simply repeat information contained in the tests themselves , except for emphasis . Where the tests require considerable user interpretation , this documentation will give you the needed background information . Where the tests are self ...
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... simply checks that the set of valid names is as guaranteed by the standard . In particular , A , AO , and A $ are all distinct . There are no diagnostics for failure , since we expect failures to be rare and it is simple enough to ...
... simply checks that the set of valid names is as guaranteed by the standard . In particular , A , AO , and A $ are all distinct . There are no diagnostics for failure , since we expect failures to be rare and it is simple enough 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