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Whither pair programming? There was a period early in the agile movement where code review was eschewed as overly bureaucratic. The solution to get similar gai
by travisgriggs 5y ago
Whither pair programming?
There was a period early in the agile movement where code review was eschewed as overly bureaucratic. The solution to get similar gains (nay, better!) was to do pair programming.
My personal experience with it was that when it worked it indeed worked well. Way better than “can you look at this/approve it for me?” But I also admit I haven’t done any real amount of pair programming in years now.
Does anyone effectively transcend reviews with pair programming anymore? Or is it a hippy coder thing of the past?
- iainmerrick 5y agoI've long been intrigued by pair programming but I've never worked at a company where it was widely used. The few times I've been able to do it, people were generally reluctant to commit code without another code review, which struck me as missing the whole point of pairing.