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A-LevelComputer ScienceTesting and DebuggingMay/June 2021Paper 2 Q75 Marks

A procedure, FormatName(): • is called with a string containing words and spaces as its parameter. In this context, a word is any sequence of characters that does not contain a space character. • creates a new formatted string from this string with the following requirements: 1. Any leading spaces removed (spaces before the first word). 2. Any trailing spaces removed (spaces after the last word). 3. Any multiple spaces between words converted to a single space. 4. All characters converted to lower case. The FormatName() procedure has been written in a programming language and is to be tested using the black-box method.

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Computer Science (9618) May/June 2021 examination, Paper 2 Variant 2. It tests the topic of Testing and Debugging and is worth 5 marks.

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