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How do you know that your program works? Can you rely on yourself to write flawless code all the time? Meaning no disrespect, I would guess that’s unlikely. It’s quite easy to write correct code in Python most of the time, certainly, but chances are your code will have bugs.
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Of course, testing only one case like this won’t give you much confidence in the correctness of the code. A real test program would probably be a lot more thorough.
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3. Check out Computers Ltd: What They Really Can’t Do by David Harel (Oxford University Press, 2000) for a lot of interesting material on the subject.
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Hetland, M.L. (2017). Testing, 1-2-3. In: Beginning Python. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0028-5_16
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