Interesting new code review tool
For some reason, code review tools topic is my “soft spot”, and I keep watching the area hoping to find the ideal solution. Until now, the closest thing to my ideal was Mondrian code review tool by Python author, Guido van Rossum. The excellent Mondrian video presentation is here, and I highly recommend it for everyone who interested in code review tools. Too bad, the Mondrian is tightly tied to Google infrastructure and is not open source.
But today I saw the announcements (here and here) by VmWare engineers who just published a new code review tool, Review Board, written also in Python, but unlike the Mondrian, under open source license, and immediately available! There is also an online demo site, to play with the new tool. The Review Board supports Perforce and Subversion (for now), and looks great.
I’ll play a little bit more with the Review Board, and report back.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:48 am
Sounds interesting. Thankx
May 24th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Another nice one: http://www.cenqua.com/crucible/ , they haven an online demo too. It’s commercial, though, but I’ve heard they sometimes let it use for free to opensource projects..
Dmitri
May 24th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
I happen to be interested in code review tools as well. See my del.icio.us bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/superq/code_review
May 29th, 2007 at 7:36 am
Our commercial tool *is* available for open-source projects for free:
http://codecollab.com
We also wrote a paperback book about code review in general which you can get for free from our website (http://codereviewbook.com).
As you can see from our customer list, ours is the foremost tool for code reviews; we’ve also been around the longest.