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Practical Remote Pair Programming

By : Adrian Bolboacă
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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

Remote beginner-advanced technique

Beginner-advanced is like driver-navigator, but the driver is a beginner in programming and the navigator is an experienced programmer. This technique is about teaching a beginner in programming a specific technique such as committing often, using an object-oriented programming (OOP) language, or using a functional construct. There isn't much rotation with this technique, especially in the beginning. But when rotations start to happen, in a remote context, it might be very difficult for the beginner to know all the steps to be taken. Rotating will feel a lot more difficult when pairing remotely compared to pairing face to face.

Let's learn how to create the setup for the remote beginner-advanced technique and look at the specific expected behaviors for both the driver and the navigator.

Remote setup

Besides the general setup, the beginner needs to make sure everything is clear and works well. This typically means that before we...