Important Tips for Pairing Etiquette

Posted by Jeremy Miller on October 10, 2006

1.)  If your a backseater, wait until the driver gets off the line of code to yell at him for a typo

2.)  When you're pairing, change your IM status to "Pairing with Bob" so your wife doesn't IM you with embarassing terms of endearment. 

3.)  If you want me to pair with you, I really, really want you to have ReSharper & TestDriven.Net.  VS2005 is basically naked without. 

Luke Melia adds some more points here. 

 

About Jeremy Miller

Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect at Dovetail Software, the coolest ISV in Austin. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap tool for Dependency Injection with .Net, StoryTeller for supercharged acceptance testing in .Net, and one of the principal developers behind FubuMVC. Jeremy's thoughts on all things software can be found at The Shade Tree Developer at http://codebetter.com/jeremymiller.
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  • Matt

    Why Testdriven.NET if you have ReSharper? What does Testdriven.NET do that ReSharper 2 doesn’t?

  • http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller jmiller

    I know the test running is crude, but I actually like TestDriven.Net outputting the text. Plus, I love being able to double-click from the stacktrace right to the line of code. I’ll use the ReSharper runner occasionally just to see real green & red.

    It might just be that I’m much more used to using TD.Net.