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Pairing techniques

This week my colleague Guilherme Motta  and I did a presentation about Pair Programming, that were really fun, we learned a lot. During our research I noticed that there are few posts, wikis or sites about Pairing Practices, so I'm sharing with you some practices that we found. Ping Pong In this technique the first programmer writes a minimal failing unit test, the second programmer modifies the code to pass the unit test(s) than the second programmer writes a new minimal failing unit test and gave the keyboard back to first programmer, and so on. This loop continues as long as any programmer is able to write failing unit tests. The technique can result in the driver role switching as often as a few minutes or less. Pros: CV  taught me this one and was really fun, because you don't have to discuss a lot, although you keep conflicting the programmer's ideas.   Cons: I don't know. Chess Clock Using a chess clock the pair define a time interval to each one be