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Pair-Programming Effect on Developers Productivity

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Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering (XP 2003)

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This paper gives an overview of a pair-programming experiment designed to verify how pair-programming affects programmer’s technical productivity. The experiment took place at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu (UT), Estonia. The paper includes the problem statement, description of the experimental design, the experiment results, and a discussion about the validity of the results. During the experiment pair-programming worked well in getting early testable programming results, pair-programmers and non-pair-programmers performed with similar final results.

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  1. University of Tartu, Tartu

    Sven Heiberg (Post-graduate student, Research Engineer), Uuno Puus (Post-graduate student, Head of Laboratory) & Priit Salumaa (MSc student, Software Engineering Specialist)

  2. Cybernetica, Estonia

    Sven Heiberg (Post-graduate student, Research Engineer), Uuno Puus (Post-graduate student, Head of Laboratory) & Asko Seeba (Post-graduate student, Software Development)

  3. Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki

    Asko Seeba (Post-graduate student, Software Development)

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Piazza D’Ami, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Marchesi

  2. Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Center for Applied Software Engineering, Piazza Domenicani 3, 39100, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

    Giancarlo Succi

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Heiberg, S., Puus, U., Salumaa, P., Seeba, A. (2003). Pair-Programming Effect on Developers Productivity. In: Marchesi, M., Succi, G. (eds) Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering. XP 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2675. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44870-5_27

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