{"id":62,"date":"2004-11-24T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T09:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=62"},"modified":"2005-05-06T06:48:55","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T20:48:55","slug":"adventures-in-pair-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2004\/11\/adventures-in-pair-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures In Pair Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pair programming is one of the many Extreme Programming<\/a> practices that I haven’t been able to use that much on my current project. We have a substitute dubbed ‘pairing’ which attempts to reap the benefits of this practice without incurring its perceived overheads. Part of ‘pairing’ allows us to pair program in certain circumstances (other factors prevent us from doing it actively all the time) and I recently had my first experience (or should that be an epiphany?) to reflect upon.<\/p>\n

My first observation during this process was that I found the quality of code I wrote, and even my focus of what I was writing, increased tremendously. I also found myself absorbing more history and appreciation for the code I was adding to, instead of simply getting my tests to pass. <\/p>\n

After enjoying my first taste of pair programming, I can conclude that to be really effective at it will definitely take a lot of practice. For example, one of my pair partners commented that I tended to unconsciously ‘huff’ while he was typing (probably because I can type much faster than him or was it because I found myself the victim of the Dominant Pair Syndrome?). Appreciating the feedback (of which I find myself so undersubscribed these days) I started to scour the net trying to look for some resources that described better pair programming etiquette. C2 Wiki has a good collection of resources such as ‘How To Piss Off Your Pair’<\/a>, Pair Programming Questions<\/a>, and Pair Programming Doubts<\/a>. I’ve now added Pair Programming Illuminated<\/a> to my wish list and am eagerly waiting for a copy of Peer Reviews In Software: A Practical Guide<\/a> in my next Amazon shipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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