Study deck / task 4.1

Turn quality preferences into testable criteria

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Why categorical precision criteria matters

“Be conservative” supplies no repeatable test, while a contradiction between a comment and behavior can be checked. Flag a comment only when the code does something incompatible with what the comment claims; skip wording preferences.

Categorical precision criteria

Why it matters

“Be conservative” supplies no repeatable test, while a contradiction between a comment and behavior can be checked.

Example

Flag a comment only when the code does something incompatible with what the comment claims; skip wording preferences.

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