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A preliminary study on the impact of a pair design phase on pair programming and solo programming

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Matthias M. MüllerAuthors Info & Claims

Information and Software Technology, Volume 48, Issue 5

Pages 335 - 344

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2005.09.008

Published: 01 May 2006 Publication History

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The drawback of pair programming is the nearly doubled personnel cost. The extra cost of pair programming originates from the strict rule of extreme programming where every line of code should be developed by a pair of developers. Is this rule not a waste of resources? Is it not possible to gain a large portion of the benefits of pair programming by only a small fraction of the meeting time of a pair programming session? We conducted a preliminary study to answer this question by splitting the pair programming process into a pair design and a pair implementation phase. The pair implementation phase is compared to a solo implementation phase, which in turn was preceeded by a pair design phase, as well. The study is preliminary as its major goal was to identify an appropriate sample size for subsequent experiments. The data from this study suggest that there is no difference in terms of development cost between a pair and a solo implementation phase if the cost for developing programs of similar level of correctness is concerned.

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Yett BHutchins NSnyder CZhang NMishra SBiswas G(2020)Evaluating Student Learning in a Synchronous, Collaborative Programming Environment Through Log-Based Analysis of ProjectsArtificial Intelligence in Education10.1007/978-3-030-52240-7_64(352-357)Online publication date: 6-Jul-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-52240-7_64
Mangalaraj GNerur SMahapatra RPrice K(2014)Distributed cognition in software designMIS Quarterly10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.1.1238:1(249-274)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.25300/MISQ/2014/38.1.12
Swamidurai RKannan UHoganson KHe S(2014)Impact of Pairing on Various Software Development PhasesProceedings of the 2014 ACM Southeast Conference10.1145/2638404.2737597(1-6)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2014
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