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Pair Programming vs. Code Reviews

Tom Dommett wrote in to share his positive experience with pair programming: The idea is two developers work on the same machine. Both have keyboard and mouse. At any given time one is driver and the other navigator. The roles switch either every hour, or whenever really. The driver codes,

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Code Reviews: Just Do It

In Humanizing Peer Reviews [http://www.processimpact.com/articles/humanizing_reviews.html], Karl Wiegers starts with a powerful pronouncement: > Peer review – an activity in which people other than the author of a software deliverable examine it for defects and improvement opportunities – is one of the most powerful software quality