Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering

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C. Sadowski, T. Zimmermann (eds.)Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4221-6_21

21. Does Pair Programming Pay Off?

Franz Zieris¹  and Lutz Prechelt¹

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Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

Introduction: Highly Productive Programming

Immerse yourself in the following software development scenario: You’re implementing a new feature in a large, GUI-heavy information system. You found a close match among the existing features and decided to duplicate and tweak the respective code and to eventually refactor it to get rid of unwanted duplications. You already made the copy and are starting to adapt it. You feel most productive, undistracted by your surroundings, deep in the zone, focused, ...