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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

Understanding general setup

In Chapter 5, Remote Pair Programming Setup, you read about the options for setting up your environment for remote pair programming. But before you use any of the techniques we will talk about in this chapter, it is important to consider the following questions so that your pair programming session turns out to be a success.

The following are some questions to consider before setting up your environment:

  1. What programming language (for example, C#, Rust, Java, C++)?
  2. What library versions (for example, JDK 8 or .NET 5)?
  3. What is the source control access?
  4. Which tools do we use for video and audio (for example, Zoom or Google Meet)?
  5. Which remote programming tools do we use (for example, CodeTogether or Floobits)?

Now, I want to remind you of my favorite remote pair programming setup. There are a few more aspects to this setup, all of which will be covered in the following checklists:

  1. Install the coding environment:

    a...