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Pair Programming and Software Defects-A Large, Industrial Case Study

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Enrico di Bella *
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Ilenia Fronza
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Nattakarn Phaphoom
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Alberto Sillitti
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Giancarlo Succi
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Jelena Vlasenko
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2012.68delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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In the last decade, there has been increasing interest in pair programming (PP). However, despite the existing work, there is still a lack of substantial evidence of the effects of PP in industrial environments. To address this issue, we have analyzed the work of a team of 17 industrial developers for 14 months. The team is part of the IT department of a large Italian manufacturing company; it adopts a customized version of extreme programming (XP). We have investigated the effects of PP on software quality in five different scenarios. The results show that PP appears to provide a perceivable but small effect on the reduction of defects in these settings.
Keywords:
Pair programming
software defects
case study

Journal

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering cover
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
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university of genoa
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