Effective Testing

🐍Python Intermediate Task (Part 1)

This task focuses on data aggregation, dictionaries, and Pythonic thinking.

🔍 Task

You are given a list of strings.

Your task is to:

Count how many times each string appears

Return the result as a dictionary

Keys = words, Values = frequency

📥 Example Input
words = ["apple", "banana", "apple", "orange", "banana", "apple"]

📤 Expected Output
{"apple": 3, "banana": 2, "orange": 1}

🧠 Challenge

Implement a function that:

Solves the task in a Pythonic way

Avoids explicit for loops if possible

Does NOT use collections.Counter

💬 Share your approach or code in the comments.

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7 Principles of Software Testing 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣

➡️ Testing shows presence of defects
➡️ Exhaustive testing is not possible
➡️ Early testing
➡️ Defect clustering
➡️ Pesticide paradox
➡️ Testing is context dependent
➡️ Absence of errors fallacy

Principles are not just for reference. You will use them in practice.

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