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Practical Remote Pair Programming

By : Adrian Bolboacă
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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to get in touch with pair programming and the best ways to get started with it. Since pair programming is a good tool for boosting efficiency, we saw how to get the most out of pair programming in our team or organization. We saw how pair programming can help, but also situations when pair programming is difficult or not recommended.

For a while, we got out of the programming context and extended pair programming to the other specializations as well. It's the whole team that pairs, and everyone can learn so much from each other. Being social, collaborating well, and being open to new ideas, tips, and tricks means that anyone can use pair programming as a continuous learning opportunity.

At the end of this chapter, we looked at the limitations of pair programming. We should not force any tool outside its purpose as we will waste time, or even worse, we will garner negative effects.

In the next chapter, we will be exploring different...