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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

Summary

Maybe organizing remote pair programming was a bit more than you expected when you started reading this chapter. In this chapter, you learned how to use your current purpose of using it in distributed system and enhance it with pair programming, how to define your type of distributed team, which techniques and practices are useful for this type of distributed team, and how to constantly improve your setup. It's not an easy task, but it's also highly rewarding when you see people enjoying working together, wanting to work more in this way, and never wanting to go back to their old, solo programming ways.

Take all the information of this chapter and adapt it to your context. If you have a two-person team, you don't need a lot of organizing and structuring up-front. If you have five teams of nine people, and all of them were to start remote pair programming together, it's a totally different story. So, be flexible, adapt, and take the useful information...