How to do Pair Programming "By Yourself"
Posted by cagataycivici on March 15, 2006
I’ve observed some code written by some guy in my day job and definitely this guy is doing pair programming although “he has no pair”. For example there is a method with 4-5 lines of code, the comment above it is generally 9-10 lines. It seems “Comment-Driven Development” is applied in this case. The interesting thing is when you read through the code, more comes out because the comment actually seems like a documentation of a dialog between two pairs. Like this one, just translated; Believe it or not it is real.
//This method is used for getting a collection of an entity in http session.
// It seems to be working, I should apply more cases.
// No! this method should not be located here, I’ve observed a utility for it in our utils package
// Let this one still be located here, I will remove it later after some more blah blah.
Here are some new practices I could derive from these,
1) Comment-Driven Development
2) Comment-First Design
3) Solo pair programming
March 15, 2006 at 10:42 am
Here are some other practices that i’ve usually seen around.
Panic-Driven Development
Panic-First Design
System.out Programming
Discrete-Integration
March 15, 2006 at 10:58 am
and more..
Meeting driven meeting
Show-off First then Do-Nothing Development
Model First Who Cares About the Rest Framework
One for All Development
April 18, 2006 at 12:45 am
I dunno maybe I am shallow but I laughed in real life after reading those.
Meeting Driven Development I guess it should be. LOOOOOOL!