Looking for some Code Review Tools

Friday, July 20, 2007

I'm looking around for some tools to help us with code reviews. Currently code reviews are setup every couple of weeks, reviewers are sent into the codebase to pick what they want to review (we had been giving them chunks but I felt that put us at a disadvantage in picking out the good code and not seeing the bad), then during the review we'll just have Visual Studio up walking through the solution. ReSharper is great and makes navigation a breeze, but I'm looking for something better and wondering what other people use. Ideally we only want to review code that's changed since the last review of it, so something that would give us visual diffs from a date or something might be useful (but haven't quite figured out how that would work logistically). So what tools are you using for your code reviews to help automate or speed up the process? Print outs and projectors or is it a little more sophisticated then that?

4 Comments

+1 on crucible, combine it with FishEye which gives powerful web based viewing of SVN\CVS and you have a powerful package.

andrewstopford - Friday, July 20, 2007 8:01:49 AM

You'll have to Google it, but check out Smart Bear.

Jeremy D. Miller - Friday, July 20, 2007 10:27:46 AM

My company (Visible Progress Technologies Limited) sell an excellent tool for automated reviews of VB.NET code called VS Law that can help you identify areas where a manual code review should probably concentrate.

Andy Maggs - Friday, July 20, 2007 2:58:46 PM

In my company(Wistron ITS), we use a java code review tool name Jupiter, which is a Eclipse plugin. It's free and easy use, but it can't support SCM tool.

henryzhang - Monday, October 15, 2007 8:10:15 PM

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