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Patrick Jermann and Marc-Antoine Nüssli. “Effects of Sharing Text Selections on Gaze Cross-recurrence and Interaction Quality in a Pair Programming Task” CSCW 2012. We present a dual eye-tracking study that demonstrates the effect of sharing selection among collaborators in a remote pair-programming scenario. Forty pairs of engineering students completed several program understanding tasks while their [...]

Jari Vanhanen and Harri Korpi. “Experiences of Using Pair Programming in an Agile Project”, HICSS 2007. The interest in pair programming (PP) has increased recently, e.g. by the popularization of agile software development. However, many practicalities of PP are poorly understood. We present experiences of using PP extensively in an industrial project. The fact that [...]

Jo E. Hannay, Erik Arisholm, Harald Engvik, and Dag I. K. Sjøberg. Effects of Personality on Pair Programming. TSE 36(1), 2010. Personality tests in various guises are commonly used in recruitment and career counseling industries. Such tests have also been considered as instruments for predicting the job performance of software professionals both individually and in teams. [...]

Jan Chong and Tom Hurlbutt, “The Social Dynamics of Pair Programming“. ICSE 2007. This paper presents data from a four month ethnographic study of professional pair programmers from two software development teams. Contrary to the current conception of pair programmers, the pairs in this study did not hew to the separate roles of “driver ” [...]