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1/ I noticed that a lot of people don& #39;t know what #tracing and #tracking means.
#tracking is associated to something bad, but for some reasons #tracing seems ok. Let& #39;s go back to the definitions
#tracking is associated to something bad, but for some reasons #tracing seems ok. Let& #39;s go back to the definitions
2/ According to Wikipedia: "A tracking system is used for the observing of persons or objects on the move and supplying a timely ordered sequence of location data for further processing." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_system">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trac...
3/ Even without technical skills, people understand that a system is observing, monitoring, their movements. Because we are adults with our free will, it& #39;s something we don& #39;t like.
#tracking = bad
#tracking = bad
4/ According to Wikipédia: "In software engineering, #tracing involves a specialized use of logging to record information about a program& #39;s execution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_(software)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trac...
5/ This is clearly more complicated to understand than the #tracking definition.
In order to debug a program, a software engineer will *log* more information than usual about the program execution. The info collected is highly dependent of the problem he wants to solve.
In order to debug a program, a software engineer will *log* more information than usual about the program execution. The info collected is highly dependent of the problem he wants to solve.
6/ Let& #39;s put that into our context. #Covid19 triggered one of the biggest crisis of the world. Software engineers like to solve problems, so they tried to find something. They want to *debug* the situation. To do that they invented the contact #tracing apps
7/ The program to debug here is a human disease. The information they want to collect to debug it is your contact history.
