Here's an interesting facility: built-in support for distributed peer
programming.
Given an appropriate sensor for JBuilder, this would allow all sorts of interesting
empirical studies:
(1) compare productivity/quality metrics obtained from building code with vs. without
peer programming;
(2) determine how often groups who say they peer program actually do peer
program;
(3) determine how often peer programming actually impacts on the code (i.e. how often
does the person not 'driving' actually make a significant change, or do they just sleep
in the background);
(4) develop a taxonomy of 'micro-processes' for peer programming.
Cheers,
Philip
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Date: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 12:52 PM -0500
From: Borland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Philip Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Borland JBuilder 2006 - Just Released
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