Understanding the impact of pair programming on developers attention: A case study on a large industrial experimentation

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1094-1101

  Sillitti, Alberto ^a   Succi, Giancarlo ^a   Vlasenko, Jelena ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

pair programming; productivity; Software development process

Indexed keywords

CODE QUALITY; DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE; INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENTATION; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REPLICABILITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

EXPERIMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84864191253     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2012.6227110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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