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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

Working better with colleagues with other specializations

Pair programming can be extended to more than just programmers. I have paired successfully with people with many skills and those with different specializations. It's great to understand their angle and their point of view, and all this knowledge can help you become a better professional.

I look at pairing with professionals from other specializations as a win-win situation. Both pairs learn something. You need to have correct expectations and a good setup to make the magic happen.

In this section, we will look at typical situations where different specialists can pair in the same team. We will learn how to approach these mixed pairing scenarios as we drift slowly from pair programming to generic pairing. We will focus on a higher level than programming by looking at the product we are building from more aspects: testing, user experience, operations, business, and so on.

Pairing with a tester

There are several...