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An algorithm compresses a text string by replacing consecutive repeating characters with the character and the number of repeats. For example, 'AAABBC' becomes 'A3B2C1'. Outline one reason why using test data is important when evaluating the fitness for purpose of this algorithm. [2 marks].
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