These developments, plus the likelihood of incentives from regional governments, will ultimately make Baku-Ceyhan the optimal route for Caspian oil exports.

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In the past, many observers thought a pipeline between Baku and Supsa in Georgia could provide the optimal route for exports from offshore Azerbaijan.

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To stay with the metaphor, we can compute an optimal route through New York (the creation of a test), we can send a robot to drive the route (test execution) and check if the route conforms to the map (evaluate the outcome).

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Then during a half-hour, instructor-led session, you decide which weather conditions are the most optimal to fly through on a route between Heathrow airport and Dubai, and attempt a takeoff, a brief cruise and a landing.

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The app works best if the object is situated on Arqball's stage, which rotates at an optimal three RPM -- the stage isn't available yet, but the company's going the Kickstarter route to get the capital needed to start manufacturing.

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