Pair Programming

I always had some problems in delivering this idea to others. i'm sure that working individually unlike working in a team. Team equals to multiple decisions , ideas and many cool staff. i might have experience A in something and another partner has B experience, if we work together we both will have A&B experience. sharing experience with time saving is totally generated from working in teams.

i had a problem last week in my work, A friend asked me to read about pair programming and here is what i found.

Tom Dommett wrote in to share his positive experience with pair programming:

The idea is two developers work on the same machine. Both have keyboard and mouse. At any given time one is driver and the other navigator. The roles switch either every hour, or whenever really. The driver codes, the navigator is reading, checking, spell-checking and sanity testing the code, whilst thinking through problems and where to go next. If the driver hits a problem, there are two people to find a solution, and one of the two usually has a good idea.

Other advantages include the fact that where two people have differing specialities, these skills are transferred. Ad-hoc training occurs as one person shows the other some tricks, nice workarounds, etcetera.

The end result is that both developers are fully aware of the code, how it works, and why it was done that way. Chances are the code is better than one developer working alone, as there was somebody watching. It's less likely to contain bugs and hacks and things that cause maintenance problems later.

In a bigger team, the pairing can change each week so each team member is partnered with somebody different. This is a huge advantage, as it gets developers talking and communicating ideas in the common language of code.

We found this to be as fast as working separately. The code got written quicker and didn't require revisiting. And when it did need to change, more than one person was familiar with the code.

It's an encouraging result. I applaud anything that gets teams to communicate better.
i really liked , and i thought it worth sharing :).