What benefits does pair programming provide?
Pair Programming Benefits
- Increased discipline. Pairing partners are more likely to “do the right thing” and are less likely to take long breaks.
- Better code.
- Resilient flow.
- Improved morale.
- Collective code ownership.
- Mentoring.
- Team cohesion.
- Fewer interruptions.
How effective is pair programming?
The effectiveness of pair programming: A meta-analysis, surveying 18 major empirical studies, reporting increased quality and compressed schedules, but some cost overhead; schedule compression mainly for simpler tasks performed by junior developers, a situation which also correlates with lower quality
How did you adopt pair-programming within the agile model?
Within the agile principle of incremental refinement, we have continued to adopt practices that help us produce quality software. The adoption of pair-programming emerged from from the ground-up, through initiative of individual contributors within the engineering team, but also enjoyed support from product & engineering leadership.
What are the benefits of a custom pairs program?
Pair-programming has also provided our engineering organization with a variety of other benefits: Quality: We have seen a marked increase the quality of our code. Having two eyes on a problem and performing code-review as we progress is invaluable. Some organizations have seen a 15\% reduction in defect counts.
What is code pairing and how does it work?
With pairing, it is like having somebody review your code instantly and regularly. It is a higher form of code reviews. Two people have to be there and understand the program being written. And if one sees problems with the other’s code, then it can be instantly corrected. You also have fewer chances of having bugs written into your code.