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Thump Thump Thump Thump. Red Green Refactor Integrate.

Those of you who’ve experienced the Industrial Logic eLearning series have even heard me intone those words, with appropriate gravitas, as a voice-over. (It was my debut screencast, you know. Shouts out to my IL peeps!)

The Four-Beat Cycle

The microtesting cycle is absolutely fundamental, so much so I’m going to repeat the four parts, even though I’m sure everyone who’s reading this blog already knows them:

  • RED: We write a microtest that fails because the code isn’t (yet) there to make it pass.
  • GREEN: We put the code in that makes it pass.
  • REFACTOR: We change the design until it is as simple and clear as we can make it.
  • INTEGRATE: We commit our changes, including the new microtest(s), to the source vault.

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Is Four Beats Enough?

No. And also, yes.

The four beats are an overarching structure. That structure can contain a thousand thousand variations.

In the clip below, the rather gifted jack of all trades, Ruben Blades, sings the lovely song Patria, which has a very fine lyric. The video is just a standard “pretend it’s fair use mp3 by having a video” video. Just close your eyes and listen to the rhythms. High quality sound system recommended.

So Why Does Rhythm Matter?

I don’t know. It just does.

The interwebs is a very large collection of tubes, and you can browse for days before you run out of either definitions of rhythm or explanations of its significance. I got tired.

Anyway, my best explanation is in the sounds above.

A Part Of TDD’s Magic Is That It Beats A Rhythm

(Extra credit: How does today’s magic, rhythm, relate
to yesterday’s magic, profluence. Show your work.)

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