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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

Traditional pairing style

As we mentioned in Chapter 3, Usual Pair Programming Techniques and Styles, traditional pairing is like serendipity, where people with similar concepts, ideas, and values start working closer together as partners. You can see this in every software development team when one colleague asks another for help with some specific matter. It happens when the helper is knowledgeable about the topic and can provide clear speed-up for the development at hand.

By following this serendipity, some people start understanding that they like working closer to each other. That is the moment when you see them working together more often, sometimes on the same task.

Now, let's look at the setup for the traditional pairing style and the specific expected behaviors when we use this style in a remote approach.

Remote setup

For the traditional pairing style, there is nothing specific to set up in addition to the general setup we presented at the beginning of this...