References on Pair Programming

Articles

Alistair Cockburn and Laurie Williams, "The Costs and Benefits of Pair Programming, XP2000, 2000 and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/XPSardinia.PDF
John T. Nosek, "The Case for Collaborative Programming", Communications of the ACM, Volume 41, Number 3, March 1998, pp. 105-108.
Fred Grossman and Joe Bergin, Pair Storytelling, http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/xp/pairstorytelling.html
Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming Silver Anniversary Edition, Dorset House Publishing, 1998.
Laurie Ann Williams, The Collaborative Software Process Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Utah, August 2000, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/dissertation.pdf
Laurie Williams, Robert Kessler, Ward Cunningham, and Ron Jeffries, "Strengthening the Case for Pair Programming", IEEE Software, Volume 17, July 2000, pp. 19-25, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/ieeeSoftware.PDF.
Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, "All I Really Need to Know about Pair Programming I Learned in Kindergarten", Communications of the ACM, Volume 43, Number 5, May 2000, pp. 108-114, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/Kindergarten.PDF
Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, "The Effects of "Pair Pressure" and "Pair-Learning" on Software Engineering Education", CSEET, 2000 and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/CSEET.PDF
Laurie Williams and Robert Kessler, "Experimenting with Industry's Pair Programming Model in the Computer Science Classroom", Journal of Computer Science Education Volume 10, Number 4, December 2000, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/CSED.pdf
Laurie Williams, Eric Wiebe, Kai Yang, Miriam Ferzli, and Carol Miller, "In support of Pair Programming in the Introductory Computer Science course", Journal of Computer Science Education, September 2002, and http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/PP%20in%20Introductory_CSED.pdf

Some Web Sites

Several online sources provide links to a variety of resources.

www.pairprogramming.com contains several other references and links. The Wiki Web contains notes, comments and links on pair programming.
Additional materials by Laurie Williams and collaborators are listed at http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/pubs.htm, although you may need to ask the browser to ignore several runtime errors.

Acknowledgements

This listing has drawn upon several bibliographic sources, including

A listing by John Dooley, Knox College, of journal articles related to course CS 332 Software Engineering, at http://courses.knox.edu/cs322/JournalArticles.html .
Materials indexed by Joseph Bergin, Pace University at http://csis.pace.edu/~bergin/ .
Materials from Laurie Williams, one of the true leaders in research on pair programming, may be found at http://collaboration.csc.ncsu.edu/laurie/Papers/

created April 20, 2003 last revised November 7, 2003

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