Peer Code Review Tool: Code Collaborator

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Code Collaborator is a web-based tool that simplifies and expedites peer code reviews. This time-saving software:

• Handles grunt-work
• Promotes team communication and
• Helps your team improve software quality... without painful, inefficient processes!

With Code Collaborator, say goodbye to the tedious and time-wasting aspects of code reviews. No more meetings, printouts, manual metrics collection, finding a specific line number, correlating comments to code, or losing track of bugs found vs. fixed.

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.

• 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.

• Ties comments directly to the code. Post comments directly on a specific line of code. Defects, comments, and version control files stay linked together, and conversation threads remain intact, even across multiple revisions.

• 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.

Peer code review is one of the best ways to immediately improve software quality. 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!

Learn More

- Features & Screenshots -- Why Over 30,000 Developers Use Code Collaborator
- Data Sheet (PDF)
- 5-min Demo (Flash)
- 11 Best Practices for Peer Code Review -- White Paper (PDF)
- Getting Started: Is Code Review for You? (PDF)
- Try Your Own Review

Smart Bear Software pioneered the concept of lightweight peer code review. With more than seven years of code-review-focused experience and research behind us, the Smart Bears are the industry experts in peer code review technology. And we're not just making an idle claim here. We conducted the largest study ever of peer code review, scrutinizing 50 developers, 2500 reviews, and 3.2 million lines of code at Cisco Systems. We present the results and related code review best practices in our free book, Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review.

Software developers use our Code Collaborator software to efficiently and easily check each other's code for defects -- without the long meetings or paper printouts that plague traditional code reviews.