Industry-inspired guidelines improve students' pair programming communication

Evaluating industry-inspired pair programming communication guidelines with undergraduate students

“…This coding schema was further analysed, and led to the creation of industry-inspired pair programming guidelines, as reported in [18]. A preliminary qualitative examination suggested that the guidelines could be used by novice pairs to aid them in their intra-pair communication; this was evaluated in the present paper, and found to be true.…”

“…The industry-inspired pair programming guidelines [18] were created with the aim of delivering concise, industry-derived instructions to novice pairs to improve their understanding of successful pair communication.…”

“…The guidelines are presented in three separate sections: restarting, planning and action [18]; they are summarised in the following section:…”

Further Evaluations of Industry-Inspired Pair Programming Communication Guidelines with Undergraduate Students

“…The creation of these guidelines has been previously reported in [15] and [17], with preliminary qualitative studies suggesting that the guidelines could help improve novice pairs' experienced intra-pair communication. A previous study has shown that when debugging code, pairs who were exposed to these guidelines had a more positive communication experience [16].…”

“…Novices find communication to be a barrier when they are pair programming [9,11], and industry-inspired guidelines have been presented as a possible solution [17]. These guidelines have been evaluated [16], with initial results showing that pairs who had been exposed to the guidelines reported an improved communication experience whilst debugging existing code.…”