The effect of pairs in program design tasks

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-211

  Lui, Kim Man ^a   Chan, Keith C C ^a   Nosek, John ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Group dynamics; Pair programming; Programming aptitude test; Programming experiment; Software design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

GROUP DYNAMICS; PAIR PROGRAMMING; PROGRAMMING APTITUDE TEST; PROGRAMMING EXPERIMENT;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 42549159833     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.70755     Document Type: Article

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