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Category: Plugin Directory / Tools / Collaborative Code Review Tool
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Version: 1.2.1
Support Eclipse Version: Europa, Ganymede
License: Commercial
Development Status: Beta
Company: IBM
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Overview
The IBM Collaborative Code Review Tool is a lightweight code review plug-in for Eclipse that supports the code review process. Specifically, it integrates the "Selective Homeworkless Review" methodology for quick, efficient code reviews.
Reviewers can review the code together through a virtual or a face-to-face meeting, or at different times. The resulting review comments and author navigation through the code are visible to all reviewers. The review comments are also associated with line numbers, and this association is maintained when the code is changed by the developer inside Eclipse.
The integration with the Eclipse IDE enables easy code navigation, which is especially important when object-oriented code is reviewed.
The tool also supports a quantitative feedback mechanism that reports the effectiveness of the ongoing review effort. This feedback is updated as the review progresses, and can be utilized by the review moderator to keep the review process on track.
What is Selective Homeworkless Review?
Code review is the most effective technique for ensuring software quality. To this end, Selective Homeworkless Review enables effective code review in time-constrained and distributed projects. In this technique, the artifacts for review are selected according to quality concerns and review techniques, with little or no preparation required. A paper describing the Selective Homeworkless Review methodology is available in The Guide to Computing Literature (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1382104).
How does the Collaborative Code Review Tool work?
The Collaborative Code Review Tool extends the Eclipse IDE by adding a Code Review perspective to the workbench.
-A Review Explorer view presents the list of reviews and provides actions such as Create Review, Join Review, and Modify Review.
-Each user chooses one of the review roles: Code Owner, Scribe, or Reviewer.
-The Scribe and the Reviewers connect to the Owner over the network and receive the files for review, the review comments, and the code navigation actions.
-An asynchronous review mode can be used as a preparation stage for the team meeting.
-The review comments are presented in a Review Comments view and marked with comment icon in the left ruler of the source editor.
-A Statistics view presents the ongoing effectiveness of the review effort and helps in keeping the review process on track.
Added on: 19-Aug-2009
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Last 1 Comments
| User: Anonymous | Rating: 1 | 2009-08-19 16:29:57 | | | There are instructions for installing on Eclipse 3.4 or later, and if you attempt to use those instructions to install on Eclipse 3.5, it fails with the following error:
Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Missing requirement: 1250713904060 0.0.0.1250713904060 requires 'com.ibm.CCRT.feature.feature.group [1.2.1]' but it could not be found
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