Exam 3: Program Correctness and Efficiency

If you attempt to de-reference a(n) __________ pointer, the operating system will generally issue an error message and terminate the program.

The for loop below is O ( __________ ).

Debugging is the major activity performed by programmers during the testing phase.

Using a debugger to execute in increments as small as one program statement is called __________ execution.

A program that executes a series of tests and reports the results is known as a test __________.

If we have an O(2ⁿ) algorithm that takes an hour for 100 inputs, adding 10 more inputs will add __________ hours to processing time.

An O(n² ) algorithm is never more efficient than an O(n log n) algorithm.

C++ allows you to define an exception handler that will catch all exceptions by using __________ as the exception handler parameter.

In __________ testing, we are concerned with the relationship between the unit inputs and outputs.

Consider the set of statements below: Since you would normally declare average as a(n) __________ value, you cast an int value in sum to type double before doing the division.

You can insert code in your program that throws an exception when a particular kind of error occurs.

Which of the following assertions correctly captures the error of passing a negative number to the fib function defined below?

To avoid uncaught exceptions you write a(n) __________block that can throw an exception and follow it with a catch block that actually catches an exception and handles it.

If we can see how an algorithm's execution time increases with respect to n, we can compare two algorithms by examining their __________.

Industrial experience has shown that the use of structured walkthroughs is ineffective in detecting errors and removing defects.

The compile time function sizeof() returns the size of its argument in __________.

In the context of integration testing, the word __________ is used to represent a function, a class, or a collection of classes.

Given the need to test five if statements that are not nested, full path coverage could require up to __________ test cases.

__________ errors occur during program execution.

The standard exception classes derived from class exception all have a member function named __________.