- giving you empirical evidences on the practical limitations of a positive theoretical results that might have been otherwise overlooked.
- giving you new insights on which approaches (e.g. class of algorithm) are the most promising for a given class of problems.
- make explicit some assumptions you might have implicitly made in your theoretical work and check whether they can actually be satisfied in practice.
- giving you empirical evidences on the practical limitations of a positive theoretical results that might have been otherwise overlooked.
- giving you new insights on which approaches (e.g. class of algorithm) are the most promising for a given class of problems.
- make explicit some assumptions you might have implicitly made in your theoretical work and check whether they can actually be satisfied in practice.