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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Munoz gets up around 5:00 a.m. to drive his bus route, and he calls home on his breaks to see how the cooking is going.

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In the future, Navistar may try to sell trucks with battery packs customized for the route the truck will drive.

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