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not terminating a loop or recursion comparison table

Subject	have testing strategy	is a kind of	is a subtopic of	has definition
defect in an ordinary algorithm		defect	10.4 - Defects in Numerical Algorithms
not terminating a loop or recursion	assume that the programmer has made an error should analyse what causes a repetitive action to be stopped should run test cases that the tester anticipates might not be handled correctly	defect in an ordinary algorithm	10.3 - Defects in Ordinary Algorithms	A common defect in which a loop or a recursion does not always terminate, i.e. it is 'infinite'

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