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As was noted for Sage, for any open source CAS you can just look up the issue tracker. For example, here's the list if all the issues in SymPy tracker with the WrongResult label: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/list?q=label:WrongResult. Most of them are pretty rare. You're much more likely to hit a bug that just gives an error when it shouldn't, or that gives an unexpected, but not technically wrong (mathematically), result.

My advice is to double check your answer in some other way. The chances of the same bug manifesting itself in two different ways are almost zero. For example, you can check a result numerically, which will use a completely different algorithm from the symbolic version. Many CASs even have built in functions that do this for you.