Jazz Sangam: A Real-Time Tool for Distributed Pair Programming on a Team Development Platform

Pair programming has proven to be a useful technique for developing high quality code while sharing knowledge through-out a team. Rapid global dispersion of software development teams, however, makes co-located pair programming a challenge, motivating the need for development tools tailored specifically for distributed pair programming. Previously, the Sangam Eclipse plug-in was developed to support distributed pair programming. More recently, the Jazz collaborative software development platform was built to support team communication and the sharing of life-cycle resources and to integrate a variety of disparate tools used by team members. The authors have ported Sangam to the Jazz platform to enable teams to pair program within their integrated team environment.