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Re: fuelized test failures

Posted by Mariano Martinez Peck on Jul 23, 2012; 10:07am
URL: https://forum.world.st/fuelized-test-failures-tp4640954p4641141.html



On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Marcus Denker <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Jul 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> I love that scenario :)
> This is great that powerful tools let us imagine and build solutions that would not be possible
> before. Power to imagination…
>
And it is an example for a building block that helps to build things. Things that are *impossible*
without it.

Another way to view Fuel is that of a scientific experiment: We empirically study the existing
(ImageSegment). Without pre-concived notions to replace it! (We actually thought ImageSegments
would turn out to be the greatest thing ever and just needed some documentation/more understandable
implementation).

Indeed. I remember my first months in Douai for my PhD making drawings to understand the IS primitives :)
And then Martin arrived hahaha. 

 
-> You study the existing
-> You claim that you can do better
-> You do better.

And then the next step is *extremeley* importnat:

-> You prove that it is better for real by *replacing* ALL the existing subsystems that do the same.

That last part is very essential: in the end, you often see that it is actually not that easy.

That's a real good point. In Spanish I would say "Los pingos se ven en la cancha"
 

So *replacing* is important. The other thing important is to realize that it enables things that are impossible
without.


+1
Fuel is getting more and more users. Even in BioInformatics: 

http://biosmalltalk.blogspot.fr/2012/07/custom-serialization-of-big-dna-or.html
http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/web/pier/software/Fuel/Software-using-Fuel

Cheers,

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Mariano
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