Peer Reviews for Embedded Software

Driving Your Product Development with Collaborative Peer Reviews

It is often very difficult and expensive to update embedded software once it is shipped. With the Internet of Things and recently-found processor design vulnerabilities, there is more pressure than ever to produce bug-free software that mitigates the risk of cyberattacks without sacrificing performance. All of this means that teams need to standardize quality practices throughout their process and improve communication overall.

With Collaborator, your development team is empowered to conduct peer code and document reviews early and often, ensuring premier quality throughout the entire application lifecycle. Cross-functional teams can remotely and collaboratively improve on deliverables all in one place. Whether you are a product manager writing and reviewing requirements or a software architect building the latest feature, Collaborator helps you and your team stay on the same page.

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Create Custom Templates to Match the Workflow that Fits Your Team Best

In Collaborator, you can build custom review templates to ensure that each type of peer review meets your specific compliance needs. Formalize reviews by setting rules for each template that work in the background and establish required criteria that must be met prior to submission.

This video shows custom review templates in Collaborator.

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Build Custom Reports to Drive Process Improvement and Quality Management

How do you show your review process in a tangible way? With Collaborator, custom reporting is a standard, out-of-the-box capability. Whether you’re trying to illustrate your review efforts for a compliance audit or just looking to find the gaps in your process, Collaborator’s reporting feature can be leveraged to drive insights and document your team’s compliance with code and document review standards.

This video shows how reports and metrics work in Collaborator.

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Webinar: What Meltdown and Spectre Mean for Cybersecurity in 2018

At the start of the year, two major security vulnerabilities were revealed that impact nearly every processor, operating system, browser, and cloud infrastructure. We recently hosted a webinar to walk though the recent changes in the cybersecurity landscape and what development teams can do to mitigate these risks.

In this session, we discuss:

• What Meltdown and Spectre are and how they were found
• Counterfeit parts and the rising threat of hardware attacks
• Leveraging peer reviews as an end-to-end quality measure