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 Peer code review is one of the best ways to immediately improve software quality. Winner of the 2008 Jolt Award for Collaboration tools, Code Collaborator is a web-based tool that simplifies and expedites peer code reviews. It helps you…
- Review code without meetings, mounds of paper, or lengthy email threads
- Share code with team members in other locations
- Capture review metrics for process improvement or to meet regulatory requirements
- Improve overall code quality in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible
With Code Collaborator, code review becomes an efficient way to find bugs and spread information, not a laborious chore. So developers actually do code reviews, and everyone gets better software!
Product Features
Code Collaborator provides convenient online communications options and notifications.
Use real-time chat for instant feedback and bulletin-board-style communications for time-delayed discussions. Send review notifications by email and RSS.
The software automates time-consuming tasks and captures metrics.
Version control integration automates gathering and uploading file changes for review. Code Collaborator sends notifications and collects review metrics automatically.
The review comments you make are tied directly to the code.
Post comments directly on a specific line of code, and they’ll stay correlated even when line numbers change. Defects, comments, and version control files stay linked together, and conversation threads remain intact, even across multiple revisions.
Code Collaborator ensures reviews happen and bugs are fixed.
You can set up a customized workflow to ensure that reviews happen as part of your normal development process. When you find defects, Code Collaborator automatically tracks them and can export them to your bug-tracking system. Reviews cannot be completed until all bugs are fixed.
Benefits to the User
- Do code reviews without meetings, mounds of paper, or crazy email threads. With Code Collaborator, code review becomes a truly Agile process.
- (To learn how, download a white paper: http://smartbear.com/docs/Peer-Code-Review_An-Agile-Process.pdf).
- Improve team-wide communication about code content.
- Work directly on your code with other team members in other locations, mentor junior programmers, and easily share knowledge.
- Capture review metrics to support process improvement or regulatory requirements such as CMMI, PCI, FDA, and others.
- Find defects sooner in the software development lifecycle before they get to QA or customers. You’ll improve overall code quality in the most efficient way possible.
COMPANY INFORMATION
Smart Bear was founded in 2003 to create software that makes life easier for software developers. Their primary product, Code Collaborator, is a code review tool that helps software developers check each other’s work quickly and efficiently. Used by more than 35,000 programmers worldwide, Code Collaborator meets the needs of all industry verticals and organizations of all sizes. Adobe, Cisco, Siemens and more than 800 other companies rely on Code Collaborator to manage the peer code review process and track review metrics. Smart Bear products help make sure cell phones work, pacemakers never stop, and your John Madden NFL game doesn’t glitch. For more information, visit www.SmartBear.com.
Smart Bear is the industry thought leader on lightweight code review and is well known for conducting the largest-ever case study of peer review at Cisco Systems. Read about this and other insights in the book Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review written by the founders and associates of Smart Bear. Available free at www.CodeReviewBook.com.
Smart Bear Inc.
9020 Capital of Texas Hwy N
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Austin, TX 78759-7904
info@smartbear.com
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