Thursday, July 9, 2009

Peer Review Tool

Last year I wrote a blog about Peer Reviews where I noted all the good peer reviews can do...as long as you do them. I believe that, when done properly, they can catch a lot of problems due to a "second pair of eyes" looking at the code. It also gets others at least sort of familiar with your code. That way, if you get hit by a beer truck, it's easier for someone else to pick up the code.

A peer review tool is an essential part of a groups set of tools. While you can keep track of defects on a piece of paper or in a document file, a peer review tool tends to work much better. On that note, SmartBear software has a peer review tool called CodeReviewer.


CodeReviewer - a simpler CodeCollaborator


SmartBear has a code reviewer sale going on, 5 seats of CodeReviewer for $5, follow the link to read more about it.

Yeah, this is sort of an ad, but lines up with my thoughts and beliefs on code reviews, so I'm putting it out there.

May your defects be trivial and you code be solid!

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