Table of Links Abstract and I. Introduction Abstract and I. Introduction II. Related Work A. On the Existence of Pair Programming Skill A. On the Existence of Pair Programming Skill B. On the Elements of Pair Programming Skill B. On the Elements of Pair Programming Skill III. Research Method A. Research Goal and Data Collection A. Research Goal and Data Collection B. Qualitative Research Approach B. Qualitative Research Approach C. Our Notions of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ C. Our Notions of ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ IV. Results A. Two Elements of Pair Programming Skill A. Two Elements of Pair Programming Skill B. Anti-Pattern: Getting Lost in the Weeds B. Anti-Pattern: Getting Lost in the Weeds C. Anti-Pattern: Losing the Partner C. Anti-Pattern: Losing the Partner D. Anti-Pattern: Drowning the Partner D. Anti-Pattern: Drowning the Partner E. Doing the Right Thing and F. Further Elements of Pair Programming Skill E. Doing the Right Thing and F. Further Elements of Pair Programming Skill V. Discussion V. Discussion VI. Summary and Future Work VI. Summary and Future Work VII. Data Availability and References VII. Data Availability and References VII. DATA AVAILABILITY Unfortunately, we cannot share the full audio and video material due to non-disclosure agreements with the involved companies and confidentiality agreements with the recorded developers. We do, however, provide the full original German transcripts as well as English translations for the referenced session excerpts [16]. REFERENCES [1] E. Arisholm, H. Gallis, T. Dyb˚a, and D. I. Sjøberg, “Evaluating pair programming with respect to system complexity and programmer expertise,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 65–86, 2007, ISSN: 0098-5589. DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2007.17. [2] K. Beck, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change. AddisonWesley Professional, 1999. [3] A. Belshee, “Promiscuous pairing and beginner’s mind: Embrace inexperience,” in Agile Development Conf., IEEE, 2005, pp. 125–131. DOI: 10.1109/ADC.2005.37. [4] S. Bryant, “Double trouble: Mixing qualitative and quantitative methods in the study of extreme programmers,” in IEEE Symp. on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing, ser. VL/HCC ’04, IEEE, 2004, pp. 55–61. DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2004.20. [5] S. Bryant, P. Romero, and B. du Boulay, “Pair programming and the mysterious role of the navigator,” Intl. J. of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 66, no. 7, pp. 519–529, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2007.03.005. [6] J. Chong and T. Hurlbutt, “The social dynamics of pair programming,” in Proc. 29th Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering, ser. ICSE ’07, Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, pp. 354–363, ISBN: 0-7695-2828-7. DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2007.87. [7] J. E. Hannay, T. Dyb˚a, E. Arisholm, and D. I. Sjøberg, “The effectiveness of pair programming: A meta-analysis,” Information and Software Technology, vol. 51, no. 7, pp. 1110–1122, 2009. DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2009.02.001. [8] L. Plonka, H. Sharp, J. van der Linden, and Y. Dittrich, “Knowledge transfer in pair programming: An in-depth analysis,” Intl. J. of HumanComputer Studies, vol. 73, pp. 66–78, 2015, ISSN: 1071-5819. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2014.09.001. [9] A. L. Strauss and J. M. Corbin, Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. SAGE Publications, Inc, 1990, ISBN: 0-8039-3251-0. [10] L. Williams, “The collaborative software process,” Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Computer Science, The University of Utah, 2000. [11] L. Williams, R. R. Kessler, W. Cunningham, and R. Jeffries, “Strengthening the case for pair programming,” IEEE Software, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 19–25, 2000, ISSN: 0740-7459. DOI: 10.1109/52.854064. [12] F. Zieris and L. Prechelt, “On knowledge transfer skill in pair programming,” in Proc. 8th ACM/IEEE Intl. Symp. on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, ser. ESEM ’14, ACM, 2014, 11:1–11:10. DOI: 10.1145/2652524.2652529. [13] ——, “Observations on knowledge transfer of professional software developers during pair programming,” in Proc. 38th Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering Companion, ser. ICSE ’16 (SEIP), ACM, 2016, pp. 242–250. DOI: 10.1145/2889160.2889249. [14] ——, “Explaining pair programming session dynamics from knowledge gaps,” in Proc. 42nd Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering, ser. ICSE ’20, ACM, 2020, pp. 421–432. DOI: 10.1145/3377811.3380925. [15] ——, PP-ind: A repository of industrial pair programming session recordings, Tech report, 2020. arXiv: 2002.03121. [16] ——, PP-ind: A repository of industrial pair programming research data, Zenodo, 2021. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4529143. Authors:
(1) Franz Zieris, Institut fur Informatik, Freie Universitat, Berlin Berlin, Germany (zieris@inf.fu-berlin.de);
(2) Lutz Prechelt, Institut fur Informatik. Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany (prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de). Authors: Authors: (1) Franz Zieris, Institut fur Informatik, Freie Universitat, Berlin Berlin, Germany (zieris@inf.fu-berlin.de); (2) Lutz Prechelt, Institut fur Informatik. Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany (prechelt@inf.fu-berlin.de). This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license. available on arxiv available on arxiv

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