- Practical Remote Pair Programming
- Contributors
- About the author
- About the reviewer
- Preface
- Section 1: Introduction to Pair Programming
- Chapter 1: Pair Programming and Its Necessity
- The history of pair programming
- Elucidating problems in pairs
- Managing complexity
- Sharpening our knowledge
- Collaborative work
- Leveling knowledge
- Advancing knowledge
- Gaining wisdom
- Improving the system
- Staff liquidity
- Managing complexities in complex domains
- Managing complex domains
- Difficult tasks
- The fastest feedback code review
- Minimizing the defect rate
- Comfort for the future you
- Code is more often read than written
- Exploratory testing with pair programming
- Programming with your CEO
- Social programming
- The rubber duckling effect
- How does pair programming work?
- Knowledge work and knowledge workers
- Time well spent
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: How Can Pair Programming Help?
- Defining pair programming
- Driver
- Navigator
- Trainer/facilitator
- Boosting efficiency
- Reducing task switching
- Taking breaks
- Situations when pair programming can help
- Bettering efficiency
- Improving technical skills
- Aiding knowledge transfer
- Improving communication
- Enhancing problem-solving capabilities
- Simplifying the existing code base
- Situations when pair programming is difficult
- Working alone
- Lack of safe space
- Only I want to pair from my team
- Working better with colleagues with other specializations
- Pairing with a tester
- Pairing with a UI designer
- Pairing with DevOps
- Pairing with a business analyst
- Pair programming in practice
- Learning new things or tricks
- Being social – social programming
- Pair programming cannot solve everything
- Unclear requirements
- Bad coding practices
- Tension within the team
- Tension within the organization
- Close to deployment time
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Exploring Pair Programming Techniques and Styles
- Understanding pair programming techniques
- The Driver-Navigator technique
- The Pairing-Trainee technique
- The Beginner-Advanced technique
- The Beginner-Beginner technique
- The Ping-Pong technique
- Improving pair programming with styles
- Unplanned pairing
- Traditional pairing
- Elastic pairing
- Strong-style pairing
- Organizing pair programming
- Round-robin pairing
- Promiscuous pairing
- Selective pairing
- How often do we need to pair?
- Should you pair for the whole day?
- Should you pair daily?
- Should you pair weekly?
- Exploring different communication methods
- Aggressive communication
- Submissive communication
- Assertive communication
- Making a difference with the right words, tone, and clarity
- Pair programming best practices
- Taking notes while pair programming
- Starting with some small talk
- Emptying your cup
- Debriefing
- Dialogue courtesy
- Building confidence – committing often and having good unit tests
- Trusting your pair
- Pair programming anti-patterns
- Managing distractions
- Centering the monitor
- Dealing with the "I know it all" attitude
- Addressing small pickings
- Boosting productivity with remote pair programming
- Summary
- Further reading
- Section 2: Remote Pair Programming
- Chapter 4: Using Pair Programming in a Distributed System
- Technical requirements
- Organizing remote pair programming
- The purpose of remote pairing
- Distributed team
- Deciding on the scope
- Duration
- Pomodoro technique
- Schedule
- Kickoff
- Concerns
- Good practices of pairing
- Anti-patterns
- Performing regular retrospectives
- How often we should retrospect
- Retrospective techniques
- What happens after a retrospective?
- Improving the restrospectives continuously
- Analyzing the results
- Personal introspection
- Tools analysis
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Remote Pair Programming Setup
- Technical requirements
- Checking the internet connection
- Using a cable connection
- Using a Wi-Fi connection
- Using a portable router
- Setting up video and audio
- Setting up video
- Checking the lighting
- Choosing the camera
- Understanding the camera's position
- Checking the audio
- Introducing audio
- Choosing a microphone
- Positioning your microphone
- Use headphones, not loudspeakers
- Mute pairing
- Setting up the IDE
- Key editor functionalities
- Best IDEs for remote pair programming
- Intellij IDEA
- Best editor plugins for remote pair programming
- Setting up screen sharing
- Introducing TeamViewer
- Introducing AnyDesk
- Introducing Screen
- Introducing Use Together
- Introducing Tuple
- Introducing Zoom
- Introducing Google Meet
- Introducing Skype
- Learning to use source control
- Source control tools
- Commit often
- Ensemble commits
- Rotation
- Using two computers for coding and remote screening
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 6: Remote Pair Programming-Specific Techniques and Styles
- Recap of main concepts of pair programming
- Understanding general setup
- Understanding the remote driver-navigator technique
- Remote setup
- Remote specifics – driver
- Remote specifics – navigator
- Remote ping-pong technique
- Remote setup
- Remote specifics – driver
- Remote specifics – navigator
- Remote beginner-advanced technique
- Remote setup
- Remote specifics – driver
- Remote specifics – navigator
- Traditional pairing style
- Remote setup
- Remote specifics
- Remote elastic pair programming style
- Remote setup
- Remote specifics
- Remote strong style
- Remote setup
- Remote specifics
- Good remote practices
- Remote breaks
- Secondary communication channel
- Remote commit approach
- Summary
- Section 3: Tools to Enhance Remote Pair Programming
- Chapter 7: Video and Audio
- Recap of what we have learned so far
- General technical aspects
- Audio is more important than video
- Video settings
- Screen sharing settings
- Quality sound and video for the win
- Learning how to enhance video
- Looking into the camera
- Using a green screen
- Using a virtual background
- Learning to enhance audio
- Speaking into the microphone
- Using an audio compressor
- Performing soundcheck
- Monitoring the sound
- Adding a pop filter
- Enhancing speech
- Employing diction
- Choosing words
- Warming up your voice
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Source Control Rules
- Recap of the source control rules
- Using source control
- Improving source control usage
- Using the commit types
- Understanding commit heuristics
- Committing when part of a feature is done
- Committing when all the tests are written, and green, for a user scenario
- Committing before taking a break, in a stable state
- Committing when the preparatory refactoring is done
- Committing when one characterization test is done
- Committing when one unit test is green
- Summary
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Remote Access
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Section 2: Remote Pair Programming
This section describes a hands-on, practical approach to starting to use pair programming in a remote way or in a distributed team.
This section has the following chapters:
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