question: As the number of possible tests for even simple software components is practically infinite, all software testing uses some strategy to select tests that are feasible for the available time and resources. As a result, software testing typically (but not exclusively) attempts to execute a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects). The job of testing is an iterative process as when one bug is fixed, it can illuminate other, deeper bugs, or can even create new ones.

Although testing can determine the correctness of software under the assumption of some specific hypotheses (see hierarchy of testing difficulty below), testing cannot identify all the defects within software. Instead, it furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behavior of the product against oraclesprinciples or mechanisms by which someone might recognize a problem. These oracles may include (but are not limited to) specifications, contracts, comparable products, past versions of the same product, inferences about intended or expected purpose, user or customer expectations, relevant standards, applicable laws, or other criteria.
1. What is infinite?
2. What do these tests find?
3. Once it's fixed is everything good to go?
4. Why not?
5. Can testing identify everything?
6. What did it do instead?
7. Are contracts included in the oracles?
8. How many things were oracles?
9. What did software testing typically attempt to do?
10. What type of process is the job?
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answer: 1. possible tests
2. software bugs
3. no
4. it can illuminate or create new ones
5. no
6. it furnishes a criticism
7. yes
8. more than eight
9. execute a program
10. iterative

question: I don't think I can win the race Tim told his parents over breakfast. His mother asked "Why not?" but his father was silent. Tim knew his father didn't believe he could be a racer: only last year, he had sent Tim to a doctor to ask why his son wasn't a better runner. The doctor told him Tim could be anything he wanted to be, and maybe he didn't like to run.

Tim, who had always preferred a good book to P.E. class, wanted to show his family that he really could be what they wanted him to be, so he spent his allowance on a pair of green running shoes and signed up for his school's Spring Fun Run.

Tim answered, "I'm going to try to win, but Angela is so quick! No one ever beats her at recess."

"Well, we'll be there for you, either way" his mother said.

Tim took an apple and walked to the bus. Since the race was after school today (school was letting out at 3:00 today, instead of 3:15), he knew he would be too nervous to think about anything else until it began. He didn't even bring his new book with him, an action book starring an orphan named Simon that Tim sometimes pretended to be.

3:30 arrived and the race was about to begin. All the other students had brought running shorts, but Tim was going to have to run in his school pants. Suddenly, he saw that his shoes were untied. As he bent down to tie them, one of the older boys kicked the back of his knee, making him fall down right as the race began. By the time he got up and tied his shoes, he saw he would finish in last place, as the other kids were much farther ahead of him.

It was almost 4:00 before Tim saw the end of the run. By the time Tim reached the finish line, the group of parents waiting on their kids was very small, as some kids had been finished for a long time. Tim's father asked, "What took you so long? I'm surprised to see you here at all! Why did you sign up for this when we all knew you wouldn't win?"

Tim thought about why he signed up. It wasn't about winning the race, or making his father proud. It was about finishing, and showing himself that the doctor was right: he could be anything he wanted to be, like his favorite character, Simon.
1. What did Tim say?
2. to whom?
3. when?
4. What did his mother say?
5. His father?
6. What did Tim think?
7. What did his dad do?
8. for what?
9. When?
10. What did he say?
11. What did Tim prefer?
12. to what?
13. What did he want to show?
14. What was that?
15. What did he buy?
16. What color?
17. What did he sign up for?
18. What was he going to try to do?
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answer: 1. I don't think I can win the race
2. his parents
3. over breakfast.
4. "Why not?"
5. he was silent
6. his father didn't believe he could be a racer:
7. Sent him to the doctors
8. to ask why his son wasn't a better runner.
9. last year,
10. Tim could be anything he wanted to be, and maybe he didn't like to run.
11. A good book
12. P.E. class,
13. he really could be what they wanted him to be,
14. a runner
15. shoes
16. green
17. Spring Fun Run.
18. to win

question: CHAPTER II.

WHIMS.

"Come, Sylvia, it is nine o'clock! Little slug-a-bed, don't you mean to get up to-day?" said Miss Yule, bustling into her sister's room with the wide-awake appearance of one to whom sleep was a necessary evil, to be endured and gotten over as soon as possible.

"No, why should I?" And Sylvia turned her face away from the flood of light that poured into the room as Prue put aside the curtains and flung up the window.

"Why should you? What a question, unless you are ill; I was afraid you would suffer for that long row yesterday, and my predictions seldom fail."

"I am not suffering from any cause whatever, and your prediction does fail this time; I am only tired of everybody and everything, and see nothing worth getting up for; so I shall just stay here till I do. Please put the curtain down and leave me in peace."

Prue had dropped her voice to the foreboding tone so irritating to nervous persons whether sick or well, and Sylvia laid her arm across her eyes with an impatient gesture as she spoke sharply.

"Nothing worth getting up for," cried Prue, like an aggravating echo. "Why, child, there are a hundred pleasant things to do if you would only think so. Now don't be dismal and mope away this lovely day. Get up and try my plan; have a good breakfast, read the papers, and then work in your garden before it grows too warm; that is wholesome exercise and you've neglected it sadly of late."
1. Who was waking up Sylvia?
2. Who is she?
3. What time was that?
4. Where were they at that time?
5. Does she believe in much sleeping?
6. What Sylvia turned her face away from?
7. Through what?
8. Were there curtains?
9. Who put them aside?
10. Was her sister reluctant to get up?
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answer:
1. Miss Yule
2. her sister
3. nine o'clock
4. her sister's room
5. no
6. light
7. the window.
8. yes
9. Prue
10. Yes