A Study of Pair Programming in the Context of Facilitating the Team Building

Anecdotal and qualitative evidence from industry indicates that two programmers working side-by-side at one computer, collaborating on the same design, algorithm, code, or test, perform substantially better than the two working alone and they have produced higher-quality software products in shorter amounts of time. But their evidence was anecdotal and subjective: "It works" or "It feels right." In education, pair programming also improves student morale, helps students to be more successful, and improves student retention in an information technology major. Our study provides an overview and history of pair programming followed by a summary of the use of pair programming in industry and academic. This paper also provides insight into the principles that make pair programming successful for the team building for newly hired programmers in an industry.