Exercises
Exercise 3.1: Testing the Pop program
Any large program’s code is likely to have bugs in it, and it’s even more likely that there are places where the documentation is out of sync with the actual behavior of the program. While going through the help file and testing the Pop program, look for these three kinds of problems.
Bugs. A bug is when the program does something that seems wrong. Crashing is the extreme case, but other kinds of odd behavior can be bugs as well. For a useful bug report, explain exactly how to reproduce the bug. Note that it possible that something the tester thinks of as a bug may be what the programmer thinks of as a feature.
Bad features. Features of the program that you find bad or confusing or which look ...
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