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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

Organizing remote pair programming

The steps mentioned in this section will help support your endeavor of starting remote pair programming. It's not a full, bulletproof plan, but we will take care of the main aspects, such as the reason for pair programming, operational details, social considerations, and how to apply all of these to a distributed team. Paying attention to the details will help you make a more effective transition to remote pair programming.

Let's begin with the first step.

The purpose of remote pairing

The first thing I ask my customers is: why do you need X?, and believe me, way too often I don't get a clear answer, or the answer is simply I heard it's good, and we need it. Unfortunately, it is most likely that they haven't heard, read, or understood enough about the technique, tool, or method they want to implement. Even worse, they believe the new thing can help in various areas, where, in fact, it can't help at all.

So...