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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

Using two computers for coding and remote screening

It's nice to see the code in front of you and, at the same time, be able to see the person you are working with. The experience of remote pair programming becomes a lot warmer and nicer as you feel like your remote pair partner is closer to you. I think collaboration is a lot better when you have at least two screens.

Now that I've explained all the technical aspects of remote pair programming, here is my favorite setup for remote pair programming:

  • Computer 1:

    a) Google Hangout/Zoom/Skype for video and audio

    b) Zoom for remote screen sharing

    c) External microphone with a tripod stand

    c) External USB sound card for the external microphone

    d) External webcam with tripod

    e) Headphones

  • Computer 2:

    a) Code editor/IDE

    b) Remote pairing add-on such as Floobits/Code With Me

  • Light:

    a) One lamp from the front, with a light diffuser

    b) One lamp for a backlight, from a lateral position, on the wall at the back of me

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