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A short introduction to Pair Programming

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November 28, 2013
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A short introduction to Pair Programming

How to write better code without killing each other

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Monica Giambitto

November 28, 2013

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Transcript

  1. PAIR PROGRAMMING OR HOW TO WRITE BETTER CODE TOGETHER WITHOUT

    KILLING EACH OTHER

  2. WAT? 2 PROGRAMMERS ON 1 WORKSTATION

  3. DRIVER ! CODING NAVIGATOR ! READ CHECK SANITY TEST DIRECTION

    WAT?

  4. SWAP ROLES WAT?

  5. CODE QUALITY ! BETTER THOUGHT CODE LESS SLOPPY LESS TRIVIAL

    ERRORS BENEFITS

  6. BENEFITS MORE KNOWLEDGE ! ON THE PROJECT NEW TRICKS SKILLS

    TRANSFERT

  7. BENEFITS PROJECT ! REDUNDANCY RESILIENCE

  8. BEST CASE SCENARIO ! OVERHEAD INCREASE 15% COSTS

  9. PAIR PROGRAMMING + TDD ! 10 DEV_1 WRITES A FAILING

    TEST 20 DEV_2 WRITES THE CODE TO MAKE THE TEST PASS 30 DEV_2 WRITES THE NEXT FAILING TEST 40 SWAP(DEV_1, DEV_2) 50 GOTO 10 PING PONG VARIANT

  10. AND NOW?

  11. FIDOR TECS PROJECT DATE CLIENT TBD OUR PLAN 2 HOURS

    / DAY ; 1 PAIR / WEEK ; 1 TASK / PAIR