Customers of Smart Bear

"Our team balked at doing code reviews at first. Now we can't imagine working without Code Collaborator."

"When we introduced Code Collaborator, it was like someone broke the ice in our group. With some common ground to start conversations and help us get to know each other, we came out of our cubes and actually talked to each other. As a result, now we collaborate more often to design and test features as well as review them."

"An interesting thing happened when we started using Code Collaborator. Our developers, who usually keep to themselves, started communicating more with each other. We were afraid code review would make them defensive and territorial, but instead, they pulled together as a group and started working together more often on all aspects of the project"

"Code Collaborator is an excellent tool. By making it possible for reviewers to fit their reviews into time they have available (late at night, early in the morning, etc.), reviewers are able to do a thorough and contemplative job. The integration with Perforce is seamless. It is very easy to create and manage reviews. And the vendor has been extremely responsive to feedback."

"The existing code review process we had was time consuming and carried out via email and not carried out for all changes. Collaborator made it possible to review all our code all the time and allowed us to improve our development process and share the knowledge from code reviews with the whole team."

"Smart Bear has provided a critical tool for facilitating cost effective lightweight code review. For our staff of 10 developers, I very much needed a tool that would facilitate code reviews while maintaining a high ROI on the effort invested. Traditional review meetings have not worked for us."

"Code Collaborator is an enabling technology. Without it, reviewing code is nearly impossible to do well across all its permutations — pre-checkin or post-checkin, live or offline, local or global, individual or group, etc. Code Collaborator makes all of them easy and productive and, in addition, has some great features for record keeping, notification, and follow-up. I can't imagine how it could be improved, but I am sure those Smart Bears will do it."

"Code Collaborator has helped us accelerate our effort to spread a culture of review within our large and growing engineering organization. How did this happen? This tool provides a low barrier for entry for those doing code reviews because it is easy to set up and get started and it has such powerful features. Most valuable in our community is the ability for each reviewer to work on reviews when it fits within their schedules as well as their ability to create and view comments directly in the context of the code. It really helps reviewers to see the comments of others as well as the feedback from the author. This is a great tool for collaboration, one that has really changed the way we engineer our products."

"The benefits of inspections are so profound that even the smallest outfits must take advantage of this technique."

"SmartBear's CodeCollaborator is helping Intuit improve product quality and reduce costs. Intuit understands the value of performing reviews and inspections, having started using Fagan Inspections years ago. CodeCollaborator greatly simplifies the review process by automating the planning, presentation, execution, and management of reviews. The tool is gaining adoption as people discover that it's helpful and easy to use, and we are encouraging wider use since there is a positive impact on quality and the project schedule. Overall we are delighted with the product, and with SmartBear as a partner. They have been very cooperative in implementing new capabilities."

"Code Reviewer is an easy to use product that will enable our developers to boost their productivity while reducing the code review cycle. All around it's a first class product, and it will help make development process more efficient."

"Code Reviewer enables software engineering managers to reduce the amount of time spent on reviewing code resulting in a more streamlined development process."

"After our team decided to implement peer reviews for code, we searched for over a year for a solution that was effective without being intrusive. Code Reviewer's ability to integrate with multiple source code control systems made it the best choice to form the cornerstone of our peer review process, and allowed us to migrate from Microsoft SourceSafe to SourceGear Vault with a minimum of interruption."

"I love this tool! Code Collaborator, paired with Skype, could be a killer app suite for telecommuting software developers."

"I actually campaigned strongly to evaluate Code Collaborator about 2 years ago when we first started developing Codestriker in house. My prediction was that we'd spend 6 months developing our own 'free tool' instead of buying one. I was wrong - it was 2 years before we considered Codestriker to be 'complete' and it therefore cost us $200,000 or more."

"I am continually impressed by your product. It is rare to run into a piece of software that is well thought out and well written these days. It seems that every day you run into a web system written by a would-be programmer in a basement somewhere that is sub-par at best. What passes as professional is also not all that great. It is just nice to work with a product that more than accomplishes the goal... and doesn't cause you to change your work flow to avoid its quirks."

"Using Code Collaborator, we find twice as many bugs in 25% of the time. We can review 100% of our code. And senior management can assess detailed review metrics on a monthly basis."

"First, I want to say that we love this tool. Every engineer that has used it (including myself) has given it better feedback than any other software tool I can remember! So far, we've been able to use the review features fairly extensively. The integration with Eclipse and svn is really great and all of the comment and defect logging at the review and file levels have been really useful for our reviews. I think really the best 'feature' is that everything is so easy to use that people actually *use* it."

"Code Collaborator has made a tremendous difference to our quality of implementation by allowing our distributed team to synergize for the best possible engineering design. It's always a good thing to share design and implementation across the team as both senior and junior folks collaborate to share best practices. No matter where we are in a sprint, our commitment is no code allowed without a Code Collaborator review. Having a centralized tool and repository for all reviews has made cross team reviews a snap. After depending on Code Collaborator for several years now, I can't imagine performing the development cycle without it!"

"Jason's book is a gem. This is the best, up-to-date discussion of light-weight peer review that I know of. The book is credible because it is based on a large quantity of real-life industry data from reviews. It is a fairly short read, and I highly recommend it for anyone contemplating implementing peer review. I have a lot of highlighting and notes written in my copy."

"A very well-written 164 page book that's a fascinating read. The benefits of inspections are so profound that even the smallest outfits must take advantage of this technique."

"The book gives A-Z coverage of a vastly under-represented topic. It's a must-read for development teams interested in product quality, customer satisfaction, and making the most of their time."

"You have really given me the courage to start performing and getting involved in code review. I really look forward to it with zeal and enthusiasm. I have the utmost respect on what you guys have and offer to the market. I must say I have searched for lots of material on code reviews and their benefits and you guys come out tops."

"Let me give a brief review now: I like it. The book is easy to read, with a relatively conversational style of writing. The book is a good summary of code reviews, and Smart Bear's brand of lightweight peer code review sounds like a great way to implement them."

"I've read it cover to cover. It's an impressive source of information."

"Great little book about code reviews!"

"Jason Cohen has finally written about a technique that was used by the best development organizations that I've been a part of."

"Code Reviewer is an easy to use product that will enable our developers to boost their productivity while reducing the code review cycle. All around it's a first class product, and it will help make development process more efficient."

"Code Reviewer enables software engineering managers to reduce the amount of time spent on reviewing code resulting in a more streamlined development process."

"After our team decided to implement peer reviews for code, we searched for over a year for a solution that was effective without being intrusive. Code Reviewer's ability to integrate with multiple source code control systems made it the best choice to form the cornerstone of our peer review process, and allowed us to migrate from Microsoft SourceSafe to SourceGear Vault with a minimum of interruption."

"I really like Code Historian; I've never come across anything that provides as much rich historical information. It's truly great, and I use it nearly every day."