Peer Code Review Tool: Code Collaborator

When code review is easy and fun, it actually gets done.

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Fast, efficient reviews with Code Collaborator!

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

• Handles grunt-work
• Promotes team communication and
• Ensures reviews happen and bugs are fixed

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. Instead, save time with:

• Convenient online communications options. Use real-time chat for instant feedback and bulletin-board-style communications for time-delayed discussions. Send review notifications by email and RSS.

• Automation of time-consuming tasks. Version control integration automates gathering and uploading file changes for review. Code Collaborator sends notifications and collects review metrics automatically.

• Threaded conversations. Post comments directly on a specific line of code. Defects, comments, and version control files stay linked together, even across multiple revisions.

With Code Collaborator, code review becomes an efficient way to find bugs and spread information, not a laborious chore.

Learn More

- Features & Screenshots -- Why Over 20,000 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.