[Tutor] crashed with Runtime Error: NZEC (non-zero exit code)

[Andrei Petre]

i'm  thinking the same way Eric do.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Eric Brunson <brunson at brunson.com> wrote:

>  Alan Gauld wrote:
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> "bob gailer" <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> <bgailer at alum.rpi.edu> wrote
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>  i don't really understand that. you are trying to say that the
> tests
> from the online judge are not "exactly good" ?
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>  Yes that's exactly what I'm saying. At least one test case has a
> non-decimal character.
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>  Which actually makes it a very good test since thats
> exactly the kind of thing you should be testing for :-)
> A test suite that only checks valid data is a bad test.
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> That's fine if writing a test suite for production software, but from the
> problem description:  "There is a string containing only decimal digit
> characters."
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> Testing for valid input seems to be outside the scope of the problem
> definition.  :-)
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