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Pair Programming: An Empirical Investigation in an Agile Software Development Environment

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Several experiments carried out on Pair Programming (PP) in a controlled environment by researchers and practitioners have been said to have a positive effect on software quality and time of delivery. Pair programming can be applied in all phases of software development. Although few empirical studies have shown the benefits of pair programming, not so much work has been done on maintainability of codes in a real agile environment. Therefore, in this work, we experimented using industry-based practitioners (working at an agile software development environment) to correct errors that were introduced deliberately into a set of python codes. Data was collected by recording the time to correct the mistakes. One hundred software practitioners were paired randomly and one hundred individual junior programmers to work on the same set of codes. Data obtained were analyzed, and we got very interesting results.

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  1. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

    Sanjay Misra

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  1. Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Adam Przybyłek

  2. Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Jakub Miler

  3. Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

    Alexander Poth

  4. Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

    Andreas Riel

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Misra, S. (2021). Pair Programming: An Empirical Investigation in an Agile Software Development Environment. In: Przybyłek, A., Miler, J., Poth, A., Riel, A. (eds) Lean and Agile Software Development. LASD 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 408. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67084-9_13

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