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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

Summary

In this chapter, we covered a perhaps unexpected crash course on audio and video, screen sharing, how to use an IDE that is appropriate for remote pair programming, and then a few guidelines about source control usage. We finished this chapter with a setup example for remote pair programming.

This was probably the most technical non-programming, non-coding chapter. Nevertheless, we need to take into account more than let's sit and start writing some code, because there are far more important aspects when it comes to remote pair programming. It might seem that coding is overshadowed by all these technical details, but that's not true. We need to get used to all these technical details, use them appropriately, and then start coding. You will feel like you had the best coding experience, and you won't want to stop working in this way.

We have our setup, and we can start remote pair programming. The next chapter will be about how to enhance your remote pair...