Interruptions on software teams: A comparison of paired and solo programmers

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 29-38

  Chong, Jan ^a   Siino, Rosanne ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative work; Ethnography; EXtreme programming; Interruptions; Pair programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

ETHNOGRAPHY; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; PAIR PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547142185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1180875.1180882     Document Type: Conference Paper

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