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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

Chapter 7: Video and Audio

The topic of audio and video was partially covered in Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup. You may consider that the information provided there was enough, and quite technical. However, during this chapter, we will cover additional topics that will help you have great sound and video as they are highly essential for a seamless remote pairing experience. We will look at how professionals, such as actors and singers, use their voice and steal some good habits from them. We will also see how professional video and audio producers keep their sound and video simple and clean, which is a delight for any viewer or listener.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Recap of what we have learned so far
  • Learning to enhance video
  • Learning to enhance audio
  • Enhancing speech