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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 the remote driver-navigator technique

For the remote driver-navigator technique, you need, as the name suggests, a driver and a navigator, with the specific roles we explained at the beginning of this chapter. Using this technique, you don't rotate that much, or even at all. In this context, you do want to rotate, so both partners need to have access to the source control repository.

Let's learn how to use the remote driver-navigator technique in a remote context. These are all ideas, tips, and tricks that come from my own personal experience. I am sure any experienced remote pair programmer can add more of those, but in the following sections, you will find what I found to be essential.

Remote setup

Besides the general setup that you read about at the beginning of this chapter, there are some particularities for the remote driver-navigator.

You need to make sure you have access to your source control repository (if you rotate) before you start...