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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

Summary

This chapter was a short but deep dive into source control usage for remote pair programming. After a brief recap of the guidelines for source control that you read about in Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup, we added a few guidelines upon which the initial guidelines are in fact based. After that, we saw a possibly new concept of commit types and explained how this can be extremely useful to you and your team.

Structuring your commits by commit types is a great way to spend less time wondering what happened with the code in the past. Toward the end of this chapter, we dealt with commit heuristics and with my known biases on which my heuristics are based. Clarifying and making transparent your heuristics and biases is a great way to have essential conversations about best practices with your remote pair programming partners, team members, colleagues, and friends.

The next, and last, chapter will be about working remotely and remote access. We have discussed this...