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Section 4.11 Glossary

Glossary Glossary

bug.
An error in a program.
debugging.
The process of finding and correcting errors.
testing.
The process of executing a program with various inputs to ensure it behaves as expected and correctly handles all possible scenarios.
error messages.
Notifications provided by the programming language or development environment that indicate something went wrong. They often include information about the type of error and its location in the code.
syntax error.
An error in a program that makes it impossible to parse (and therefore impossible to interpret).
exception.
An error that is detected while the program is running.
semantic error.
An error in a program that makes it do something other than what the programmer intended
runtime error.
An error that does not occur until the program has started to execute but that prevents the program from continuing.
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