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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

Setting up the IDE

After much non-coding and technical information, it's time to get closer to what we are really doing: programming. Most programmers I know use an IDE to edit code, but I will also offer simpler editor options for remote pair programming. Of course, some IDEs are tightly coupled to a technology stack, though there are more and more IDEs that can support more technologies. I will go through the main IDEs for the main technologies. You can use at least one of the following for almost any technology stack out there.

Using an IDE with a remote pair programming add-on gives you the best experience, as you feel like you are coding together. There is another option, and that is to pair on a remote shared desktop, as you will see in the next section. I would recommend the second option only if you have a very short task, such as showing something for 10-15 minutes. Otherwise, remote pairing on a remote shared desktop is cumbersome, annoying, can lag, and has many...