Distributed pair programming on the Web

Pair programming is an extreme programming practice, where two programmers working sided by side on a single computer produce a software artifact. This technique has demonstrated to produce higher quality code in less time it would take an individual programmer. We present the COPPER system, a synch...

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Published in:Computer Science , 4th Mexican International Conference On pp. 81 - 88
Main Authors: Natsu, H., Favela, J., Moran, A.L., Decouchant, D., Martinez-Enriquez, A.M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2003
Subjects:
Collaboration
Collaborative software
Collaborative tools
Collaborative work
Computer science
Concurrency control
Copper
Programming profession
Software quality
Software testing
ISBN:0769519156, 9780769519159
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Summary:Pair programming is an extreme programming practice, where two programmers working sided by side on a single computer produce a software artifact. This technique has demonstrated to produce higher quality code in less time it would take an individual programmer. We present the COPPER system, a synchronous source code editor that allows two distributed software engineers to write a program using pair programming. COPPER implements characteristics of groupware systems such as communication mechanism, collaboration awareness, concurrency control, and a radar view of the documents, among others. It also incorporates a document presence module, which extends the functionality of instant messaging systems to allow users to register documents from a Web server and interact with them in a similar fashion as they do with a colleague. We report results from a preliminary evaluation of COPPER which provide evidence that the system could successfully support distributed pair programming.
ISBN:0769519156
9780769519159
DOI:10.1109/ENC.2003.1232878