Re: XP and Pair Programming


> No agenda, just casual empiricism. Perhaps a better indicator would be
> to take a straw vote on a few of the comp programming newsgroups and
> take a count.

Oh, yeah... THAT'S scientific :-)

Better to poll readers of a general purpose programming magazine.

So I went looking for just such a poll. Didn't find it. If anyone knows of
a general purpose programming magazine that has done a poll on agile
methods, please let me know.

Along the way, I found an interesting article. The military conducted an
experiment of using pair programming, and measured the result.
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2003/03/jensen.html
Excerpts
"We hoped for a productivity gain of anything greater than 0 percent. Any
small gain would have compensated for the two programmers loading on each
task. The 127 percent gain achieved was phenomenal and a cause for
celebration."

"The error analysis showed the project had achieved an error rate that was
three orders of magnitude less than normal for the organization. Integration
of the first two components (approximately 10,000 source lines) was
completed with only two coding errors and one design error. "


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