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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

Pair programming anti-patterns

Particularly during your first interactions, pair programming can seem weird and potentially confrontational. I have seen so many people who have never paired before enter and argue, and their conversations turn impolite. You don't want that to happen when you are pairing. All your willingness to try something difficult vanishes and your energy gets funneled toward a sterile discussion.

In this section, we will discuss things that I wouldn't recommend doing when pair programming. This is because they are annoying, create frustration, and can even cause anger. Be careful when you are that person doing the things we are about to discuss, and try to correct yourself. Or, when you observe someone doing these things, give them some feedback on how to improve, but treat the matter with care and empathy.

Managing distractions

We can be faced with so many distractions when pairing: our phone, our tablet, a chat, an email, a colleague&apos...