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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

Chapter 8: Source Control Rules

Source control is an essential mechanism for remote pair programming, and it's for this reason that it deserves a dedicated chapter. After discussing source control rules in Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup, it's time to explain those rules. Sure—it's good to have rules, guidelines, and good practices, but it's also very important to understand the reasons behind having those rules. And as I have never seen in my life a rule without exceptions, it's also important to know the underlying necessity of that rule so that you know when to bend or disregard it. Of course, a rule remains a rule and a guideline remains a guideline, therefore they shouldn't be overtaken by their exceptions.

After a short recap of all the rules and guidelines that we have gone through during this book, we will get to explanations for each one of them. If you are an experienced programmer, pair programmer, or remote pair programmer...