Empirical study on the productivity of the pair programming

Authors:
Gerardo Canfora;Aniello Cimitile;Corrado Aaron Visaggio
Affiliations:
Research Centre on Software Technology, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy;Research Centre on Software Technology, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy;Research Centre on Software Technology, University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Venue:
XP'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Many authors complain the lack of empirical studies which assess the benefits and the drawbacks of agile practices. Particularly, pair programming rises an interesting question for managers: does pair programming mean to pay two developers in the place of one? We realized an experiment to compare the productivity of a developer when performing pair programming and when working as solo programmer. We obtained empirical evidence that pair programming decreases the effort of the single programmer.