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It produces a higher quality of code in about half the time than that produced by the summation of their solitary efforts. Pair programming illuminated, addison wesley, 2003. However, problems occur when the members of the pair come from different programming cultures. Pair programming illuminated by williams, laurie, 1962publication date 2002 topics. True collaboration, with honesty, trust, and respectful debate, is required. Two programmers work sidebyside at one computer, continuously collaborating on the same design, algorithm, code, and test. The best pair programming books recommended by steve blank, such as.
Nov 01, 2015 pair programming sometimes called peer programming is a controversial topic. The costs and benefits of pair programming, extreme programming and flexible processes in software engineeringxp2000, cagliari, sardinia, italy. Controls whatever is being used to record the program as it is developed, such as a pencil, mouse, or keyboard. Pair programming illuminated extreme programming refactored. We focus on some of those problems in this section and examine how they may affect. Pragpub july 2011 pair programming benefits the pragmatic. It explores the operational aspects of pair programming. References overcoming management resistance to pair. With this book in hand, you will quickly discover how pair programming fits the needs of your own organization or project.
Pair programming illuminated 2003 edition open library. At face value, pair programming appears to be a simple, straightforward concept. Written as instruction for pair programming newbies. The effect of pairs in program design tasks, lui, chan and nosek feb 2008. The first describes pairing in extreme programming xp, while the second discusses the collaborative software process csp. Pair programming is too valuable an idea to ignore, or implement carelessly.
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Whats more, its one thing to read about it, and something completely different to actually do it. The book pair programming illuminated we refer to it as ppi for the rest of this section by laurie williams and robert kessler, not surprisingly given its title, pitches the case for pair programming. Apr 06, 2014 pair programming illuminated by laurie williams, 2003, addisonwesley edition, in english. Is this increase in quality enough of a reason to consider throwing two people at the problem. Kessler has been on the faculty of the university of utah since 1983 and just stepped down as director of the entertainment arts and engineering program where he is now a professor.
Just a few years ago, i loved my single office and i was completely against the idea of spending all my time programming with somebody else sitting at the same computer. Pair programming illuminated guide books acm digital library. Laurie williams is an american software engineer known for her writings on pair programming and agile software development. This book does a great job of showing how something that seems so easy is actually really hard and then makes it easy again. Evaluating pair programming with respect to system complexity and programmer expertise, arisholm, et al feb 2007. The costs and benefits of pair programming, extreme programming and flexible processes in software engineering. Pair programming illuminated, by laurie williams and robert kessler, is the first book devoted exclusively to the practice and discusses its theory, practice and the various studies up to that date.