Being concerned with real implementations largely falls under the category of engineering, and I have yet to hear a concrete example of depending on experimenta

Being concerned with real implementations largely falls under the category of engineering, and I have yet to hear a concrete example of depending on experimentation that doesn't amount to "we have to use the scientific method to make sense of shoddy, undocumented work by other programmers", which I have a hard time regarding as central to the field, even if regrettably necessary.