Title :
Activity Patterns of Pair Programming
Author :
Cao, Lan ; Xu, Peng
Author_Institution :
Georgia State University
Abstract :
This paper reports results from an exploratory study investigating the activity patterns of pair programming using a student project conducted over a period of nine weeks. We found that pair programming engaged in activities that lead to more deeper-level thinking which may enable people to formulate a more complete mental model of the task. We also compared the activity patterns between different pair combinations. We found that there are differences in the patterns among different pair combinations.
Keywords :
Cognitive science; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Conference management; Data analysis; Management information systems; Problem-solving; Programming profession; Scalability; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2268-8
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2005.66
