Both Synthesized and Inherited Attribute are the part of semantics of a language that provide meaning to its constructs, like tokens and syntax structure. Semantics help interpret symbols, their types, and their relations with each other and its analysis judges whether the syntax structure constructed in the source program derives any meaning or not. Now on the basis of features of attributes we can distinguish between Synthesized and Inherited AttributesFollowing are the important differences between Synthesized and Inherited Attributes.Sr. No.KeySynthesized AttributeInherited Attribute1DefinitionSynthesized attribute is an attribute whose parse tree node value is determined by the attribute value at child nodes.To ... Read More

Both the Spiral Model and the Waterfall Model are widely used development methodologies in the software industry. Both of these models are practices for better tracking and have application development in systematic way. The basic difference between spiral model and waterfall model is that the spiral model works in evolutionary method and generally used by developers, whereas the waterfall model works in a sequential method and generally used by customers. In this article, we will discuss the important differences between spiral model and waterfall model. But before going into the differences, let's start with some basics of these two ... Read More

The Waterfall model and the Incremental Model are widely used in software development. The objective of having these models is to ensure that the software is developed in a systematic, organized and efficient manner. Read this article to find out more about the Waterfall model and the Incremental model and how they are different from each other. What is the Incremental Model? The incremental Model is a software development model in which the entire model is divided into various sub−development phases where the corresponding testing phase for each development phase is practiced. The execution of the phases, i.e., ... Read More

Both the Waterfall model and the V-Model are quite widely used development methodologies in the software industry. Both of these models help the development of applications in a systematic way. The basic difference between V-Model and Waterfall model is that, in the V-Model, defects are identified in the testing phase, while in the Waterfall model, defects are identified from the beginning. Read through this article to find out more about the V-Model and the Waterfall Model and how they are different from each other. What is V-Model? V-Model is the development model in which the entire model is ... Read More

Both Forward and Reverse Engineering are related to the re-implementation of the legacy systems to achieve more sustainability. On the basis of the mode of creation, we can classify these modes as Forward and Reverse Engineering. Read this article to learn more about forward engineering and reverse engineering and how these two approaches are different from each other. What is Forward Engineering? Forward Engineering is the mode of development of an application in which the development is done on the basis of given requirements from the client or consumer. In forward engineering, the requirements are provided before the development ... Read More

Try/Catch block in PowerShell is to handle the errors which are produced in the script. To be specific, the errors should be terminating errors. The Finally block in the PowerShell is not mandatory to write each time along with Try/Catch but it will be executed regardless the error occurs or not.So when you use the Try block, the Catch block is mandatory but not Finally block.Try/Catch block with Terminating error − Below is the example of Terminating error without finally block.Exampletry{    This is not allowed    "This is Allowed" } catch{    Write-Host "Error occured" -BackgroundColor DarkRed }OutputPS C:\WINDOWS\system32> ... Read More

Like ErrorActionPreference variable, ErrorAction parameter works similarly. ErrorAction parameter supported in Advance functions and most of the built-in cmdlets in PowerShell. It is useful to convert the non-terminating error to the terminating error and then you can handle them with try/catch blocks.Supported Values and Examples, Continue − This is the default value of the ErrorAction parameter and Error will be displayed and commands listed in Pipeline will be executed further.Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Logicaldisk -ComputerName Nonexist -ErrorAction Continue Write-Host "`nHello World" -BackgroundColor DarkGreenOutput Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. At line:1 char:1 + Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Logicaldisk -ComputerName Nonexist -ErrorA ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... Read More

ErrorActionPreference variable in PowerShell is to control the non-terminating errors by converting them to terminating errors. Error handling depends upon which value you assign to $ErrorActionPreference variable.The values are as below.Continue − This is the default value of the variable and when the error occurs, an error is displayed in the PowerShell console, and the script continues the execution.Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Logicaldisk -ComputerName Nonexist Write-Host "Hello World"Output Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Logicaldisk -ComputerName Nonexist Write-Host "Hello World" Get-WmiObject : The RPC server is unavailable. At line:2 char:1 + Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Logicaldisk -ComputerName Nonexist + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Get-WmiObject], COMException + FullyQualifiedErrorId ... Read More

Powershell generates two types of errors when it executes script or commands. Terminating errors and Non-Terminating errors.Terminating error − This error generated by script, functions, or commands you create and it stops or halts the execution of the script so that the commands in the next lines can’t be executed. To handle this error proper mechanism is needed otherwise there would be an error message displayed.For example, PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>> This-commandnotexist This-commandnotexist : The term 'This-commandnotexist' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path ... Read More

Error variable in PowerShell is to view the errors generated in the current PowerShell session. We can say that the $Error variable is the container that stores all the errors and the latest error will be displayed first. For the example below, we will set the $Errorview to Category view to minimizing the error display content. By default $ErrorView is a Normal view.$ErrorView = "Categoryview"Now we will see the $error variable example, PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> asdds ObjectNotFound: (asdds:String) [], CommandNotFoundException PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-process asddsd ObjectNotFound: (asddsd:String) [Get-Process], ProcessCommandExceptionHere, there is one wrong command and one wrong input we have written so ... Read More