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Practical Remote Pair Programming

By : Adrian Bolboacă
Book Image

Practical Remote Pair Programming

By: Adrian Bolboacă

Overview of this book

Remote pair programming takes pair programming practices to the next level by allowing you and your team members to work effectively in distributed teams. This helps ensure that you continuously improve code quality, share equal ownership of the code, facilitate knowledge sharing, and reduce bugs in your code. If you want to adopt remote pair programming within your development team, this book is for you. Practical Remote Pair Programming takes you through various techniques and best practices for working with the wide variety of tools available for remote pair programming. You'll understand the significance of pair programming and how it can help improve communication within your team. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with different remote pair programming strategies and find out how to choose the most suitable style for your team and organization. The book will take you through the process of setting up video and audio tools, screen sharing tools, and the integrated development environment (IDE) for your remote pair programming setup. You'll also be able to enhance your remote pair programming experience with source control and remote access tools. By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence to drive the change of embracing remote pair programming in your organization and guide your peers to improve productivity while working remotely.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Pair Programming
5
Section 2: Remote Pair Programming
9
Section 3: Tools to Enhance Remote Pair Programming

Recap of what we have learned so far

Let's look back at Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup, and list the main lessons about video and audio. We want to create a great virtual experience for our partner, which is why we want to put so much effort into all these technical details.

There are some general lessons that we can apply to both video and audio, and we will get into specific details of both of them.

General technical aspects

These are some general technical requirements that we talked about in Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup. It's worth mentioning that none of the items on this list are compulsory, but all of them are important for a great experience:

  • Internet speed of at least 10 Mbit/s download and 5 Mbit/s upload.
  • Use a wired internet connection.
  • Use a room free of background noise.

The next aspect we will move on to is the comparison of audio and video.

Audio is more important than video

We also mentioned in Chapter...