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Essentials of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition
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Essentials of Software Engineering, 2nd Edition

by Frank Tsui, Orlando Karam
April 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
12h 44m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
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greatly, but they are commonly misused, especially by beginner
programmers, who try to use them as a substitute for understand-
ing the code.
Specially constructed libraries that reimplement standard libraries
but with extra safeguards, to detect and prevent errors.
Tools such as profilers, which describe the pre- and postconditions
(discussed in Section 9.6) and coverage tools that are primarily
used for other purposes but can help in testing.
9.6 Assertions and Defensive Programming
A very useful technique is the use of assertions, which is related to the more
formal concepts of preconditions and postconditions. A precondition is a
condition that y ...
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ISBN: 9780763785345