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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

Recap of the source control rules

In Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup, we discussed source control rules and all the essential information needed to start working as a remote pair. Now, it's time to recap on the rules we went through, and in the following sections we will elaborate on how to adapt them when the context requires it.

Using source control

Source control has become an essential part of the software development environment. Every programmer should use it well and with efficiency. Nevertheless, our source control usage depends a lot on our past experience, those who had the time and knowledge to teach us about it in the past, and the teams we have worked with and their practices. Approaches to source control differ from team to team, and there are various ideas and techniques. You learned about the following rules—or rather, guidelines—in Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup:

  • Commit often
  • Do ensemble commits
  • Practice source...