Exploratory comparison of expert and novice pair programmers

Authors:
Andreas Höfer
Affiliations:
Universität Karlsruhe, IPD Institute, Karlsruhe, Germany
Venue:
CEE-SET'08 Proceedings of the Third IFIP TC 2 Central and East European conference on Software engineering techniques
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We conducted a quasi-experiment comparing novice pair programmers to expert pair programmers. The expert pairs wrote tests with a higher instruction, line, and method coverage but were slower than the novices. The pairs within both groups switched keyboard and mouse possession frequently. Furthermore, most pairs did not share the input devices equally but rather had one partner who is more active than the other.