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The following sample behavior files (all text files) illustrate the program behavior and contain all of the different output message text strings produced by the program (see the strings.txt file). Your program should match these samples exactly so that you can be sure it is producing all of the different kinds of messages correctly. However, these samples are not a complete test of your program. Your program will be tested for a large number of other possible inputs and input sequences.
The console interaction files are a capture of the console display during the program run. The _in.txt and _out.txt files are for you to use with redirected I/O. When given the _in.txt file, your program's cout output should match the _out.txt file exactly. The other output files are written during the by the program, and your program should produce files that match exactly with these samples.
The following sample illustrates the "normal" behavior of the program and contains the corresponding messages. Your program should reproduce the output files exactly.
The following sample shows the error messages produced by the program. Your program should reproduce the output file exactly.
The following sample illustrates the behavior of the program when you input strings that are too long or too short, or contain excess whitespace and use "type-ahead." Your program should reproduce the cout files exactly.
These samples demonstrate the program behavior and are supposed to contain every possible type of output message string so that you can prevent your autograder score from being affected by spelling errors and typos.
These samples are not a complete test of your program!!! Your program will be tested for a large number of other possible inputs and input sequences. You must devise your own complete test set to find the bugs in your code.
The console outputs are a saved copy of a console window after entering the commands by hand. The cin input file is suitable for redirecting input, and the cout output can be compared with the redirected output of your program. Your program should match the cout output.
See the course web page for how to compare files and redirect I/O. In the examples directory on the file server you can find the redirect_io module that you can use to redirect I/O from a C program on any platform. You can use this to help test your program's output against the supplied samples. The instructions are in the header file.
For a walkthrough on how to check your code before submitting and what the results of submitting should look like, see submit example.
For an explanation of the autograder feedback for this project, see AGoutput.
As described in the project document, this project may be evaluated for code quality using spot-checks. See the syllabus and project document for more detail.