[Stanley]

Pair Programming's Impact on Effort: A Comparative Discussion

This discussion compares the study's findings on effort with results from other academic research, highlighting both reinforcing and contrasting outcomes.


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[JoseMar]

That's really interesting. It's a classic debate in software development, and it's cool to see the hard data on it.

[dotman094]

From team metrics: effort per line goes up ~15 %, but defect rate drops 25–30 % and total calendar time shrinks because we avoid the “red-eye debug” phase.
Trade-off feels worth it for anything >1 day of scope; for one-liner hotfixes we skip pairing and PR-review instead.