I have only proven it correct, not tried it.

You see this is the initial test.

Welcome back again. This is the second unit in the debugging course.

So here comes the quiz.

The correct answer is No.

In the next unit, I'm going to introduce you to one of the most powerful debugging tools ever invented, that is assertions.

What you do instead is you put the functionality into code that is outside of the assertion and then use the assertion only for checking the result.

This is how the argument goes.

While you can easily roll out your own assertion, built in assertions typically do have a couple of advantages.

Fake addresses, fake names.

You see the location here it's in the file foo.c in line 9.

At the very end, what you see here, is an error message.

That is statements in the program that automatically check for errors during execution.

So fake U.S. Marshal, fake credit cards.

Do you get the failing assertion condition. In our case, 2 2 5.

Now I have gone and fixed the program.

Which of these four is the best option to go down here considering the pros and cons about assertion that we see over to you.

If debugging were a video game and you would be hunted by bugs, then assertions would be a power pill that would help you catch all the bugs.

Here are some points to consider. First, failing is better than bad data.

So any proof can only be as good as the specification it relies on.

Not very surprisingly, the assert keyword in Java is the least frequently used of all keywords in Java, which in my view is a big, big shame.

From the line of our reasoning, we can now deduce that if this condition had not been true, then for this input the assertion would not have failed.

He's a hypocrite.

Fake IDs.

In Java, there is an option ea for enable assertions which turns assertions on.

The answer here is to first leave the assertions on then measure which assertions actually do impact performance and possibly do turn this off and leave the others enabled.

False

false

False

Column spacing

We get the location line 1 in our function and we get the list of callers.

In C C , the compiler option DNDEBUG for no debugging also turns assertions off.

The precondition for a sorting function is simple basically, we simply assume that x is a list.

A counterfeit nose.

First we need to generate on execution and second we need to check the outcome.

The earlier you see an infection for instance, because an assertion fails, the shorter the cause effect chain, we need to investigate.

And everything, including the tag characters up here, is being added to the output.

Fake name, fake social.

Pooh, pooh!

Staged?

These two kinds of assertions form a pair and both of them have very specific objectives.

Here's a failing assertion 2 2 5. Let's see, when we run this whole thing what we got?

Now imagine what happens if you do have assertions in your code that check large parts of your state for whether they're valid or not.

A pretender.

Was it fake?