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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

Chapter 6: Remote Pair Programming-Specific Techniques and Styles

Now that we are set up for remote pair programming, it's time to learn how to use some pair programming techniques and styles specifically for remote work. We will look at the technicalities of video, audio, screen sharing, and IDEs to the technicalities of remote pairing. We with then recap some of the main pair programming techniques and styles that you read about in Chapter 3, Usual Pair Programming Techniques and Styles. After that, we'll add a remote flavor on top of this so that you can use these techniques and styles with your colleagues.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding general setup
  • Understanding the remote driver-navigator technique
  • Remote ping-pong technique
  • Remote beginner-advanced technique
  • Traditional pairing style
  • Remote elastic pair programming style
  • Remote strong style
  • Good remote practices