Industrial Logic Blog

It’s been ten years since my book, Refactoring to Patterns, was published and twenty years since the gang-of-four released their classic, Design Patterns. I was thrilled when Refactoring to Patterns won a 2004 Jolt Cola award and delighted to see the book translated into seven languages. Since the publication, I’ve co-authored a series of in-depth, […]

Your team is having a frustrating day. The demo led to arguments and accusations. The feature is not going to ship. This isn’t the first time. The analysts have redoubled their efforts, adding more prose, more diagrams, more explanatory text, yet frustrating disconnects remain. Miscommunication during handoff creates waste and rework. Disappointment creates frustration and […]

At Industrial Logic we use the term microtest instead of unit test. What is a microtest and why don’t we use the standard industry term, unit test? Watch Mike Hill (aka Geepaw Hill) explain what microtests are, how they differ from unit tests and their connection to Test-Driven Development.

Selenium (Se) is a useful but dangerous tool. For example, it is extremely useful for cross-browser, multi-page scenario testing.

Over the last few months, we here at Industrial Logic have been working hard on a new album called Sessions. This new album allows you to visualize, quantify & critique your programming sessions.

For many years, I've found students in a situation I call False Green.

How do we know if someone is truly learning Refactoring and Test-Driven Development? Before 2005, we determined proficiency by literally looking over people's shoulders as they worked. In 2005, we endeavored to automate the "looking-over-the-shoulder" part. We built code that used reflection to automatically check whether a student's solution met certain design criteria.

Our biggest customer has recently rolled out our eLearning to their developers at offices around the globe. They started with folks in the India office, then moved on to offices in China, South Korea, Australia and so on. By early March, 2009, the rollout had been completed to all locations in Europe and North America.