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performing a calculation in the wrong part of a control construct comparison table

Subject	have testing strategy	cause by	catch using	has definition	is a subtopic of	is a kind of
defect in an ordinary algorithm					10.4 - Defects in Numerical Algorithms	defect
performing a calculation in the wrong part of a control construct	design tests that execute each loop zero times, exactly once, and more than once ensure that anything 'bad' or 'unusual' that could happen while looping is made to occur on the first iteration and the last iteration	inappropriately excluding the action from, or including the action in, a loop or if-then-else construct	black-box testing, so glass-box testing or inspections may be more effective	A common defect in which the program performs an action when it should not, or does not perform an action when it should	10.3 - Defects in Ordinary Algorithms	defect in an ordinary algorithm

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