Introducing programmers to pair programming: A controlled experiment

• Main Authors: Sajeev, A. S. M., DATTA, Subhajit
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Software process; Agile methods; Controlled experiment; Empirical software engineering; Extreme programming; Pair programming; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5583; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6586/viewcontent/IntroducingProgrammersToPairProg_2013_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Pair programming is a key characteristic of the Extreme Programming (XP) method. Through a controlled experiment we investigate pair programming behaviour of programmers without prior experience in XP. The factors investigated are: (a) characteristics of pair programming that are less favored (b) pe...