Re: [Junit-devel] distributed pair programming for JUnit?

[David S. <da...@sa...>]

Eike,

That definitely sounds interesting.  Is the plug-in ready to go, or is
there something I should know first?

   David Saff

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Eike Starkmann
<eik...@fu...> wrote:
> Hi JUnit developers,
>
> my name is Eike Starkmann and I'm  working as part of the Saros Team at
> the Freie University in Berlin.
>
> Saros is an Eclipse plugin for collaborative text editing and
> distributed pair programming, i.e. it allows two or more developers to
> work together in real-time on the same files. It is similar to Gobby,
> SubEthaEdit or Google Docs but focuses on programming in Eclipse.
>
> In my opinion your  can benefit from Saros because I think it brings
> many advantages to Open Source Software development:
>
> * Distributed Pair Programming is like a live peer review. This should
> help with finding good design, get rid of bugs, increase readability, etc.
>
> * Transferring knowledge should be easier to do when more than one
> person look at and work with the same code. This should also help to
> give new developers an introduction to the code.
>
> * In contrast to screen sharing, Saros only shares your actions inside
> of Eclipse with regards to the project you are both working on (think
> privacy) and you are still independent to explore the project on your own.
>
> Saros can be useful in the following contexts:
>
> * Working on complicated problems in the code
> * Performing code reviews
> * Debugging
> * Code presentation
> * Code sprints
> * Introducing new developers to the project
> * ...
>
> It is my master thesis to figure out whether Saros is useful when
> developing Free/Open Source Software.
>
> What do you think? Could you and JUnit benefit from doing pair
> programming using Saros? If you think so I would like to join our
> project and help you with using Saros.
>
> If you are interested in Saros but still curious about how it works
> please visit our website or feel free to contact me.
>
> I hope you will find Saros useful and give me feedback.
>
> Kind regards, Eike Starkmann
>
> Website: https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPP
> Update Site: http://dpp.sf.net/update
> Saros @ SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dpp/
> Programming Languages Supported by Saros :
> https://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/DPPCompatiblePlugin
>
> --
> Eike Starkmann
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