error checking (1 Viewer)

[failingTheHsc]

can anyone provide me with an example?
i know what it is, just not how to do it....

 

[Winston]

error checking for what? data packets? :S

 

[failingTheHsc]

whoops i meant desk checking. my bad

 

[leeraff]

you list all the variables, then you have an output column. You use test data to put into the algorithm and record the result

e.g

Begin something
Get A
Get B
count = 1
While count <> 5
If A = B then
Print "a=b"
End If
increment count
EndWhile
End

for this algorithm you have the variables "A", "B" and "count"
thus your desk check will look like
note "...." = space

say you have these values A = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and B = 2, 1, 3, 4 , 5,
Deskcheck:
A...B...Count......Output
1...2......1.......... (blank)
2...1......2
3...3......3............... "a=b"
4...4......4................"a=b"
5...5......5................"a=b"